What Is The Point Of Cd Req Servers?
ktimekiller
Join Date: 2003-02-25 Member: 13958Members
Join Date: 2003-02-25 Member: 13958Members
does it like make u lag less? what is the point of using cd? and what cd are they talking about? half-life? what is the fuxing point? i hope it laggs less because i lag a lot, and if isnt half-life cd, what is it? i dont think thre is such thing as natural selection cd........
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The server I play on had CD required for a while. The simple reasoning was that it's a player filter. The cheating block was nice but ultimately just a fringe benefit; we use it to keep out the kind of players who aren't intelligent enough to find CD with the link it gives you when you're kicked. Just like it keeps out the cheaters not determined enough to work around it, it also keeps out the lamers not patient enough to download it.
Unfortunately it seems that Steam users as a whole are much less capable of figuring out CD, so making it required can result in some population issues. Lately we've just set it to optional with a very annoying voice reminder plugin if you don't use it. Most people who seriously intend to play there download it after a couple times, and hopefully it will still annoy lamers into going somewhere else.
GG, non third-party anti-cheat support, GG.
Actually complete sense of security. The main plus of C-D is it keeps out those without the attention span or general knowhow to find & install it. Even if it prevented no cheats whatsoever (and to be fair, at least it does the common freely downloadable ones, which is what 90% of nubs use anyway) it still provides the benefit that I don't have to put up with so many peons on my servers.
I have heard it causes crashes once in a while for some players, but they seem to be a very distinct minority, and I have to make the choice to lose those good potential people to get rid of 3.0 x 10 to the power of 2,000 nubs who will spam 'Oh noes where do I buy t3h gunz! M3h AWP!!1one'. So to them, apologies are owed, but it's for the good of the many.
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yea when i have it on every once in a while if I join some other server it says my system has been modified and i have to kill HL and CD... dunno why.
Why would they do this? A fair bunch of wallhacks are implemented as patches to ATi or Nvidia driver sets.
ps. When I look at cheat sites the only thing that is quite commonly listed as undetected for C-D is wall hacks and/or lambert shading cheats. I don't know if they work properly as C-D determines which enemy players who are not supposed to be visible to your client and then moves their position to behind you on the client, which means you won't see them through walls even if you aren't kicked from the server with an error message, allthough you will see your teammates through walls. Aimbots aren't allways easy to spot when you aren't in a position to spectate(e.g. on the opposing team) and some admins don't even let you spec for some inane reason. C-D is way better than nothing which is what you have on non-CD NS servers.
VAC has recently gotten their stuff togheter and has allmost all public cheats banned which is very nice, lets hope ns3 b4 has VAC support finally.
[NO-CD]Cheese
and I was like "WTH? My Half Life Disk is in the CD-Drive!!!"
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I hate CD servers. I am behind a router... fun starts here.
Ever since UnitedAdmins took over CD its been downwards ever since.
NO evrsion, not even the freaking betas, are hooking the game dll. it simply will not start HL with CD. It starts HL, it starts CD, but CD will not be used.. nice.
Only way around this is somethign whihc has a near 40% of working. I direct connect to a server with CD. Then, when lucky, I might get CD to hook the dll. this is different for CD versions.
so CD + old routers = crap.
I tried anything. I now gave up, got CD of or clanserver.. (ok, it never even made the new server) and I now hardly go to any CD server. its not worth it if you got a system + network not swallowing it.
Yeah I uninstalled CD because it kept crashing HL, though this was on WON.
<span style='color:white'>Extending a flame over multiple words doesn't make it less of a flame. Be nice.</span>
They're the best!!!
No really cd makes it so stupid when you can find douzens of hacks or open gl
glitching.
I'd say kill the hackers, the family and find all their reletive and gun'em down!!!!
Have you ever taken a look at a forum dedicated to cheating (at MP-games)? You really should. If players in NS whine about "OMG, gimme shotgun, gl, jp and HA! Now!!!", after the game they whine in those forums "OMG, gimme hack, crack, god-mode and aimbot! Now!!!"
And people just do that; give links to cheats that this little kid can spoil the game. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo--> If could filter out (in Steam) all non-CD servers, I would. Sadly, that isn't possible yet. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Should it be doing this with the official set of Det. drivers? Those are always the ones I use, but C-D just locks me out nowadays. I don't have anything else running in the background.
It's a bummer; I don't mind using C-D, but it won't let me. :/
"see" anything, my buddy once installed cheats(for testing purpose) to his HL and joined VAC server... nothing... then he tried C-D server... C-D instantly prevented him from playing. And those crash & other problems are mainly caused by steam ( when steam gets an "update" C-D servers and clients are usually unplayable until C-D gets a new patch + I never had problems with C-D & wonHL ).
I recommend using <a href='http://www.udpsoft.com/eye2/index.html' target='_blank'>All Seeing Eye</a> if you are lazy to check if server is "C-D only", ASE will start C-D automatickly if required ( and it will also close it when leaving game ). It also has much better "server finder" tools and can be used for many games.