Is it just me, or is Retail laggier than the Demo

[JacksonDane]

I have a dedicated server set up at a colo-facility. 1.5mb up and down.
the boxs is a P4 2.4 ghz with 1gig of ram.

When I was running the demo version of the server, I could run 20 people no sweat, and it wasn't laggy at all.

Now I have the server dropped to 16 and it lags like crazy! Am I doing something wrong? Or is the retail laggier?

Any help would be very appreciated! !!!

[-xYmOx-]

Demo Server = No Cheat Protection = Less Laggy

Retail Server = Cheat Protection = Laggy as hell


Hope this helps :)

xYmOx

PS: You are not doing anything wrong....this is happening to all of us :)

[JacksonDane]

ah, I see. Well, does anyone have a tutorial that will help me get the most out of my server?

[Killing]

That may be the case but a machine of that spec will run 2 * 20 players servers. I know cuz I have 4 * 20 player servers on a dual 2.4 Ghz Xeon with 2Gb ram :P Any yes they are smooth. you might want to drop the max client rate to 10000 and check out our FAQ on Received ICMP port unreachable (http://www.unrealadmin.org/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=5#ICMP) as this can lag the server badly.
Another thing to check when u say its laggy ensure its not the client. The demo didnt ship with high detail textures so upping max everything made no difference the release has them and will slow down even the fastest of machines.