Side note, the increase in cpu power required for 100 tick vs 66 is quite substantial and pretty much not worth doing when you have anything more than 10-12 players (especially over internet the ping time makes the increase almost meaningless). IMO 100tick should be reserved for clan match servers and 66 for pubs.
- Always minimize your client when it is running for some reason the memory will sit a lot higher when it is displayed to try this out run a server for a couple hours, then minimize it watch the memory shrink, yes it will come back up but no where near as high
- Remember to assign srcds to a specific affinity, it is yet to properly utilise more than one core, yes the orange box srcds is meant to however the performance vs 1 core assignment is shite.
Good guide to get people going The Guy
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