5 - 20 seconds?!?! You must have a pretty high end machine... Mine takes at least a minute to load, and then another minute of looking around before it's finished caching all the textures (heaven forbid there be some important dialogue during this time that I'd like to hear over the stuttering...) and i can get back to game playing...
If you want to see what a real game using the source engine looks like check out Vampire - Masquerade (sp?). And there's no authentication to boot!:)
The only way to know for sure which is gonna be better for you application is to get test boxes and run them for a while...
The tests that people like DELL run are usually fairly general in their coverage. If your gonna be using the server fro something specific then you're really gonna need to test the servers your self...
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I find multiplying the time estimate by Pi gives a more realistic looking number... :)
5 - 20 seconds?!?! You must have a pretty high end machine... Mine takes at least a minute to load, and then another minute of looking around before it's finished caching all the textures (heaven forbid there be some important dialogue during this time that I'd like to hear over the stuttering...) and i can get back to game playing...
:)
If you want to see what a real game using the source engine looks like check out Vampire - Masquerade (sp?). And there's no authentication to boot!
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The only way to know for sure which is gonna be better for you application is to get test boxes and run them for a while... The tests that people like DELL run are usually fairly general in their coverage. If your gonna be using the server fro something specific then you're really gonna need to test the servers your self...