Hi everyone... (I will reply to multiple postings)
In regards to AK:
I'll clarify since im friendly ^_^.
I was the founder to AK itself, along with Blood and Mystro. Setsunayaki is my other name which I've used for many years
In regards to Hardware:
Alex,
I've played in 1gbps servers before. I tend to get ping so low (usually 15 and under) that it feels like a singleplayer game online. I played in a team deathmatch in UT III in a 1gbps server. THe server did not allow Dialup in that current server and my ping, along with everyone elses...I saw a list of 32 players , where the highest ping was 24 and the lowest ping was 6. I pinged 9.
Opterons and latest Xeons are intended for 64-bit OSes, but DX itself was made for single core operation. This means the only way to get better performance is to work with "single core" overall performance.
In regards to my Server:
ATDM (NE-USA) Server ^_^ is the name. The whole server has extreme settings, uses MTL151b1,MTL160, MiniMTL13, MiniMTL210, Nephtys (I dont know if Im supposed to remove MiniMTL13)...
The settings are so extreme that to achive what I want to do, I had to put the entire game in a RamDisk and set it to realtime priority settings.
My two environments to test have are
Windows 64 bit
Linux + Wine