ATAG Dedicated Server is up!

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by Ataros

Sorry, I do not get it. If we have it 100 000 on Repka do you suggest to reduce it to 20 000 or to double it to 200 000?
I have 100 000 on my client too.

Reducing the speed on client makes sense. In ADW admins requested everyone to reduce speed to ISDN or even lower when more than 80 people were on the server. There are tools for this in IL-2. Do you know if we can restrict client speed in CloD on server side?

Well ours had defaulted to 10000 so it was definitely hindering performance. But old IL2 was default at 2000 correct? So I'm wondering if clients upped their netspeed if it would help them as well.

Just a theory, but I don't know if 10,000 = 1mbps or 100kbps or if it means any of the above.

[klem]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

Well ours had defaulted to 10000 so it was definitely hindering performance. But old IL2 was default at 2000 correct? So I'm wondering if clients upped their netspeed if it would help them as well.

Just a theory, but I don't know if 10,000 = 1mbps or 100kbps or if it means any of the above.

Not sure I follow this. Are you concerned that the clients may be set much lower and suffering because of it or that they may be set much higher and overloading the server in some way?

btw mine was 25000 and I get pauses of a couple of seconds when, it seems, someone enters the server or at least when the logserver(?) prints out some stuff (not all) in the chat window. Could that be due to custom skins being used by some players?

[Sven]

Custom skins make my game lag when I get someone in my sights, today the situation wasn't much better then last time I played on ATAG, overall lots of stutters and lag. I did try to increase the net speed in my config, but it didn't help

[ATAG_Bliss]

Originally Posted by klem

Not sure I follow this. Are you concerned that the clients may be set much lower...........
btw mine was 25000 and I get pauses of a couple of seconds when, it seems, someone enters the server or at least when the logserver(?) prints out some stuff (not all) in the chat window. Could that be due to custom skins being used by some players?

Yeah, the concern is that considering the default server speed was way to low, I was wondering if it was too low for clients. The server has a 10gbps connection so I'm not to awfully worried about using that up at all lol. And yes, 99% of all the stuttering is when people spawn in custom skins. Sadly we don't have a way to shut that off server side atm. I would love to have custom skins, but until there's a way to have them load in a less abusive way, they stutter everyone.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

Yeah, the concern is that considering the default server speed was way to low, I was wondering if it was too low for clients. The server has a 10gbps connection so I'm not to awfully worried about using that up at all lol. And yes, 99% of all the stuttering is when people spawn in custom skins. Sadly we don't have a way to shut that off server side atm. I would love to have custom skins, but until there's a way to have them load in a less abusive way, they stutter everyone.

What they need to do is have a RoF style system where everyone gets to vote for the skins that they want "Official" and then produce a official skin download folder that would hopefully mean that no one has to keep on downloading skins in game and stop stuttering the server.

[ATAG_Bliss]

Well I wouldn't want the voting system, but it would be nice if the server could put together a pack so whatever it had, along with the clients having that same pack on the pc, would be the only skins that could be used.. But any sort of system that way takes tons of time to manage. Lets just hope they get it all sorted out

[McFeckit]

In the video of Mr. X I noticed he/she uses a zoom function when looking out of the cockpit. Surely that contravenes reality? I don't remember WWII pilots having zoomable eyes or a hand pair of binnocs.

Can this zoom function be banned from the server ? I certainly won't be using it as i'm all for realism.

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by McFeckit

In the video of Mr. X I noticed he/she uses a zoom function when looking out of the cockpit. Surely that contravenes reality? I don't remember WWII pilots having zoomable eyes or a hand pair of binnocs.

Can this zoom function be banned from the server ? I certainly won't be using it as i'm all for realism.

Which certainly is nonsense, as the zooming system tries to what the eyeball MKI can do all at once. Wide field of view which a much higher resolution then any monitor is capable to display at the moment. The zoom is a cheap attempt to get those capabilities into the sim, but it's better then nothing.

[MK.Mr.X]

Originally Posted by McFeckit

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Originally Posted by McFeckit

Mr. X uses a zoom function when looking out of the cockpit. Surely that contravenes reality? I don't remember WWII pilots having zoomable eyes or a hand pair of binnocs.

Can this zoom function be banned from the server ? I certainly won't be using it as i'm all for realism.

Hmm .. And what's wrong with that?
I am 10 years flying in the IL2 and I have never seen such a statement ... It's a game! Do you have good eyesight? Large monitor? .. But in others, poor and small, so that the theme of nothing ...

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by McFeckit

In the video of Mr. X I noticed he/she uses a zoom function when looking out of the cockpit. Surely that contravenes reality? I don't remember WWII pilots having zoomable eyes or a hand pair of binnocs.

Can this zoom function be banned from the server ? I certainly won't be using it as i'm all for realism.

On the contrary 30 degrees FOV ( zoomed in) gives you realistic dimensions of objects because average monitor occupies about 30 deg. of your real life(RL) FOV in your room. Only in this mode ingame 30 dg. = RL 30 deg.. That is why it is included in game.

60 and 90 deg. FOVs included in game because in RL our total FOV is about 180 degrees. You can check it if you raise your hands to your sides and move fingers you can see movement of both hands with peripheral vision without moving your eyes.

Ingame 90 deg. FOV is only an attempt to squeeze RL 90 deg. into a small monitor window which occupies only 30 deg. of your RL FOV. Thus with 90 deg. ingame FOV all objects appear more than 3 times smaller than in real life

This is a known game-design issue: average monitor can not provide realistic 180 deg. FOV and only 40-50 inch panels can provide about 90 deg. RL FOV.