Stewie`s Blog » i3D.net Trends http://stewie.biz Inside the gaming industry Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:14:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Game trends http://stewie.biz/2010/02/17/game-trends/ http://stewie.biz/2010/02/17/game-trends/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:45:11 +0000 Stewie http://stewie.biz/?p=628 BC2 servers perform very well on the new Xeon CPUs:

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]]> http://stewie.biz/2010/02/17/game-trends/feed/ 0 Left 4 Dead server has a memory leak http://stewie.biz/2009/03/24/405/ http://stewie.biz/2009/03/24/405/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:53:30 +0000 Stewie http://stewie.biz/?p=405 Left 4 Dead: server memory leak?

Left 4 Dead: server memory leak?

]]> http://stewie.biz/2009/03/24/405/feed/ 0 How does packet loss affect all players across the network? http://stewie.biz/2009/03/15/how-does-packet-loss-affect-all-players-across-the-network/ http://stewie.biz/2009/03/15/how-does-packet-loss-affect-all-players-across-the-network/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:41:38 +0000 Stewie http://stewie.biz/?p=386

Well, here you see the worst caste scenario.

The Battlefield 2 Ranked game servers maintain a constant connection to the EA/GameSpy backend for stats processing.

If this connection is interrupted, all players are dropped, the game servers crash. Not just one game

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Well, here you see the worst caste scenario.

The Battlefield 2 Ranked game servers maintain a constant connection to the EA/GameSpy backend for stats processing.

If this connection is interrupted, all players are dropped, the game servers crash. Not just one game servers, but all game servers running Battlefield 2 in Ranked mode. Yesterday we experienced such a crash when both Savvis (used in Amsterdam network) and Level3 showed packet loss on the last hops in LA USA, just before the GameSpy backend. The graph also shows how  Battlefield 2142 and Battlefield Heroes (both ranked games) are unaffected. The packet loss started just after 8 pm and was resolved around 9:40 pm last night.

Packet loss to master server

Packet loss to master server

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