More support for the Opteron...

[Jeff7181]

quote from www.counter-strike.net

"VALVE ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR UPCOMING AMD OPTERON(tm) PROCESSOR
64-bit Counter-Strike Linux Server Provides Performance Gain for World's #1
Online Action Game

San Jose, Calif. - March 6, 2003 - Valve, L.L.C., creators of Counter-Strike and Half-Life, today announced immediate availability of a 64-bit version of the Counter-Strike dedicated server using the upcoming AMD OpteronTM processor. Counter-Strike has the largest service footprint of any game on the Internet, with 35,000 servers generating over 4.5 billion player minutes per month.

"These server operators are extremely sophisticated, and were some of the earliest adopters of Linux," said Gabe Newell, Valve managing director. "We expect them to be leading-edge adopters of the AMD64 platform. AMD's approach to 64-bit computing looked great on paper, and it's nice to see that with real processors and development tools that it fulfills that promise. Every PC developer should be looking to get their server code and development tools running in 64-bits right away."

In a straight port of code highly optimized for x86-32, Counter-Strike dedicated server tests with both 32- and 64-bit versions revealed a 30% clock-for-clock gain, and is expected to show further performance gains in future upgrades.

"Valve Counter-Strike servers with 64-bit computing can offer customers a better overall gaming experience, and AMD processors will enable this performance boost," said Barry Crume, director of server segment product marketing, Computational Products Group, AMD. "With 64-bit dedicated servers using AMD Opteron processors, Valve will offer online gamers increased reliability, improved stability and greater throughput."

 

[sandorski]

woot

 

[DaveSimmons]

Valve, L.L.C., creators of Counter-Strike and Half-Life,

Some credit-stealing weasels in their marketing department. But it does sound better than "Valve, one-hit wonder . . ."

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Valve, L.L.C., creators of Counter-Strike and Half-Life,

Some credit-stealing weasels in their marketing department. But it does sound better than "Valve, one-hit wonder . . ."

That may have been a reporters error, I dunno though, just seems likely.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons

Valve, L.L.C., creators of Counter-Strike and Half-Life,

Some credit-stealing weasels in their marketing department. But it does sound better than "Valve, one-hit wonder . . ."

That may have been a reporters error, I dunno though, just seems likely.

Looks like an untouched press release to me, but the release it hasn't hit Google yet so a typo is an (unlikely) possibility for another day or so until we can confirm their weaselhood 😉

 

[sandorski]

hehe, we'll see, maybe.

 

[vash]

Technically, Valve bought the rights to Counter-Strike and have been handling the development of the game since CS 1.0. It IS their game now, even if they hired the original guys to help code/design for it.

vash

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: vash
Technically, Valve bought the rights to Counter-Strike and have been handling the development of the game since CS 1.0. It IS their game now, even if they hired the original guys to help code/design for it.

vash

But there is a big difference between owning a game and creating it -- CS was already a success before Valve got invalved. They should be saying something deceptive like the movie studios do, "from the people who brought you movie-x!"