Re: [Speed-dreams-devel] network race testing

[Tom Low-S. <to...@lo...>]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:13:55PM -0500, si...@mu... wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:34:43PM +0000, xavier bertaux wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> can you said me what you did on SD 2.1 for each dev ?
> >> I must updated credits.xml and readme.txt for these Release ... if you
> >> have closed some tickets said me too.
> >>
> >> I forgot Tom too on credit page for his work on network ... I do
> >
> > Still here. :) Been distracted by iRacing recently.
> 
> and you admit that here...? ;-)

Research. :) Only half joking, actually, since I have zero experience 
with commercial racing sims. Been trying rFactor as well. I have a much 
better idea of where SD stands now.

> 
> >
> > Now that more people have access to network race mode, an organized
> > stress test with a large field of cars may be a good idea. The network
> > code is the least tested code in this release.
> 
> Network play is probably hugely affected by network quality, I'm on a
> really bad/laggy/low bandwidth connection. What are the minimal
> requirements?

No idea. Latency is more of a problem than bandwidth. The packets are 
not large at all.

> 
> Can test locally with a number of machines.

If you can test with more than three or four machines, it would exceed 
any tests that have been done before.


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