ionstorm66

Date/Time: 5/24/2012 10:54 PM EST What happened: My character will not save. Where you were: All over. What you were doing: Logging in/out Server(s) you were on: SE4, Ohio 3, UK5, and a few others Timeline of events before/after error: I played the night before fine, we did some camping at NW airfield. Then today I updated to 1.5.8.4 from 1.5.8.3 and now nothing saves. I randomly spawn in different locations with my gear from last night. All the servers get the same data, it just doesn't save.

No Arma 2 servers have 1 big main thread and a few smaller threads. That one big main thread is the limit to the server. So 1 fast core is better than 4 slower cores. Server cpu's are for webservers where it is built to distribute load over many cores. Gameservers have to keep everything in perfect sync, which is very very hard to do over multiple cores. That is why almost every gameserver is 1 big thread, that way everything is running at the same speed and in the right order.

Your best bet for running one big server is using a desktop cpu. Server cpu's are made for a large number of small processes, like a web server. They have a large number of low clocked cores. Desktop cpu's are built for running games, and single big programs. They have a lower number of very highly clocked cores. Your best bet for a large single server is a overclocked 2600k with a SSD, sticking it in a 4U rackmount case, and collocating it. You also might be able to rent an overclocked desktop machine as a dedicated server, but there aren't that many hosts that offer them. I've had to do almost the same thing for large gmod servers, as source engine is almost all 1 thread.