Best combination of ded server settings on lan?

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hey all

A few of us often play co-operative flashpoint on LAN. We got resistance recently and with all the new graphics etc serving and playing at the same time just leads to terrible fps for the host and really poor smoothness of enemy AI characters when they are running around.

So we decided to try dedicated server on a spare machine we have with plenty of cpu power and we were looking at all the server tweaking options and wondering what settings one should be looking at to take full advantage of LAN play. At default the dedicated server is smoother and now of course none of us get the fps hit that comes with having to do the serving on his own machine, but we notice that enemy soldiers, especially at long range, still seem to "warp" when running along, it seems like the server "corrects" the soldiers position to his correct position every few seconds, and this makes sniping at long range really annoying.

So anyway we have plenty of CPU power and bandwidth, what settings should we put it at to achieve the objective of MAXIMUM smoothness of all soldiers on the battlefield? In the instruction file it has a view options: the ones we are looking at are maxmsgsend (should we increase this substantially?) and...

"MaxSizeNonguaranteed =<limit> > Maximum size of non-guaranteed packet in bytes (without headers). Non-guaranteed messages are used for repetitive updates like soldier or vehicle position. Increasing this value may improve bandwidth requirement, but it may increase lag. Default: 256"

This is exactly what we want- we want MORE repetitive updates so ai soldier positions are animated smoothly. This is what divides us, some of us think that increasing the amount would allow more updates to come through, others think decreasing the amount would mean the srever would be forced to send more packets hence the soldiers positions will be updated more frequently. Which is the correct school of thought?

Finally, how is the FPS that the server runs at controlled? Ours stays constantly at 35 it seems- can we increase this to 50? Is this capped somewhere and is there a setting that controls it?

Thanks to anyone who can help

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Moving to MP.