server lags

[neropl]

like I said cheaters are not a problem for us, we have not as popular server as yours and if there is new player coming we watch him closely and can say in short time if he cheats or not.XP working very good and not having GUID is a rare thing but I saw few players that didn't have it but next time they came they had GUID (not sure why it works but it does). Hardware vary from older to newest and best but still lags and lags coming suddenly for period of time and may be smooth playing for 10 min and hit again like every 3 sec peak. This game was made for Pentium III and playing on Pentium 4 or higher shouldn't give problems especially with newest video cards with power that wasn't in your wish 6 years ago.
Game play nice anyway without pb so is not a game but pb check that evenbalance screwed so bad and don't even care to fix it. Like Dragon said SLAC maybe a solution but would have to see it to believe it and as far as I know they plan to release it for pub also.

[daredevil]

Game play nice anyway without pb so is not a game but pb check that evenbalance screwed so bad and don't even care to fix it. Like Dragon said SLAC maybe a solution but would have to see it to believe it and as far as I know they plan to release it for pub also.

SLAC as opened the option for other mods but not sure when they will fully support it.

http://sl-anticheat.com/news.php?id=7

Sure ET was made to play with P3 but you need to understand, with P3 you only get low FPS. IIRC, ET is more of a CPU based game rather then GPU.

A basic hardware C2D, DDR2, SATA HD and good internet should be playable enough.

Now a days people expect 300 FPS, saying game was made for P3 so I should get 300 FPS on C2D. No you don't. You need to recode whole game to fully support multi threading and then move the rendering part to completely GPU based.

PB is all about memory. With P3 I assume people are using DDR and hence the lag. Sure, PB adds overhead but is there any other option to it?

Server popularity as nothing to do with cheaters. Cheaters always target non PB servers and non PBBans streaming server. Might want to turn on PB and PBBans streaming for few weeks and you will notice what I mean to say.

If someone is having issues with PB, send a ticket to EB. I heard lately they are actively providing updates to fix the updates mentioned in the ticket. Well I never used to get reply before in my tickets, but lately I got 4 replies within 2 days in my 3 tickets.