POD-bot mm requirements

[fawkes37]

Hi,

Im quite newbie at these bots theme, used POD-bot before too but was renting a server then. Now Im going to run a server from my home with my old CPU which is upgraded and with a free internet which nobody is using. So I was planing to do zombie swarm server and add ~20 bots and that 12 players could join.
So my question would be: how much CPU and internet bandwidth does POD-bot mm take? If the 12 players would take, lets say ~756 mbit/s, then how much would it take with 20 bots and so on?

Thx

[KWo]

How old is Your PC? I mean what is the exact CPU and what the frequency it is working on? On my AMD2400+ 20 bots are running fine.

[fawkes37]

Originally Posted by KWo

How old is Your PC? I mean what is the exact CPU and what the frequency it is working on? On my AMD2400+ 20 bots are running fine.

Hm well Im going to buy an iMac for myself soon, but going to upgrade my old soon, its kind of pathetic atm. But I have a free internet which nobody is using, 768kb/s, which I think I could run 12 slots just fine. But I was thinking about adding zombie mod to my server which would be fun it there were ~14 bots in T and 12 players on CT. So could I run something like this with my internet? I mean do the bots take the speed of the internet too and can cause lag if I add them? I mean, I would upgrade my CPU pretty good.

Thx

[KWo]

Start with 8 bots - then add new bots one by one to see when it will start to lag. I cannot predict if on Your old PC it will lag or not. I'm not a seer. There are people at this forum they told me it works fine 20 bots on their servers, but they had the PC box not older than mine.

[fawkes37]

Hm, yeah, I have to upgrade it pretty hard then... But You never mention anything about the speed of itnernet, doesnt that count? Sry, if Im newbie on bots. But I have an old regular PC, with 2.5 GHz processor (celeron; sux), pretty sure Im going to buy 2,5-3 GHz dual core, think it has 512 mb memory and 7200rpm 60GB harddrive. Im going to upgrade the memory AT LEAST to 1 mb.
Thx

[KWo]

The CPU seems to be OK to run 20 bots. The CPU power has nothing with lags if Your internet connection is poor. In this case even if You put Pentium10 100THz it will not help... Botrs are on the server's side, so it has nothing with internet speed. It will affect only the amount of human players. But for that info You need to check Valve page's about requirements for internet speed.

[fawkes37]

So when I would do 26 slots and add 14 bots which wont be kicked, that only 12 players could join, it wouldnt create any more lag than with 12 slots and 0 bots?

[Ancient]

Well thats not what I read.

I don't lag and I have a crappy pc. *celeron, 2.0 GHz*
But yet I've played internationally with friends and 20 bots on server.

And the pc stats that you wrote before pretty much match mine.
So you should be better off since you have 500 More MHz.

But I don't know about the Free Internet thing.


My Sisters PC is worse but still works great for bots and cstrike.

[fawkes37]

Hm but Im still not getting it. I know it takes more PC than the internet and that would be nice if the processor would fit with the bots, but I need to know does the POD-bot mm take any or how much internet, because I have quite pethetic internet and I wouldnt want that to happen :/.

[Ancient]

Well I'm not sure, but you'd think that all online games (Listenserver or dedicated) require some or small amounts of internet usage.

I have broadband and when I have cstrike up I surf there is no interference.
So I can't really tell, but I assume it only uses a little bit.

Oh, and I think the bots shouldn't be using any internet bandwidth since its working within the PC.