First, this is the best Coop HL mod out there, you did great job!
But what are the system requirements? if i disable fog, detail textures etc, the mod still lags like hell even on lan. If i play on a internet server it is impossible. Its just laging.

Ok, my PC really is crap!

P3 500, 256 MB Ram, Geforce 2 MX etc...

But still I can play this mod very good, it´s hard to believe, I know

The only thing is when I get hunted by 20-30 Zombies and they are very close it starts to turn into a dia show But it is still playable and a lot of fun

well i have a bit better p3 900 mhz, 256 ram, geforce 2 mx
but its realy laging. maybe because of the zombies...

if its video lag, its just the massive amount of zombies there are in BB.

if its lag as in high pings, you have to consider taht every zombie has its own set of data. like what parts of the body it still has, how fast it moves, and ofcourse where it is on the map. the server has to track every one of those zombies.

now, if you have 50 zombies chasing you, the server is loading like hell, and it jsut lags because of the massive amount of data that is beeing sent over.

and if everybody starts shooting it really gets nasty because the server has to track the bullits + register the hits aswell. just run net_graph 3 and see the dip that your framerate takes when you fire and what it is when yer not firing.

SimonS, never make the assumption people can afford a PC upgrade. Or I will find you, and tear out your liver with my teeth.

Thankyou.

Grasn: I'm glad to hear you like the mod so much, but Brainbread simply stretched the HL engine to breaking point, and a PC which can run Counterstrike or TFC playably still may not be able to handle Brainbread. The dev team might be able to give you a few more tweaking tips to make your experience more playable, but no guarantees.

Just a suggestion

EDIT: If you often find lag spikes in some mods go try Rate 9999 in console (helped me alot)

I think it's pretty silly of a mod development team (or any development team for this matter) to pump the system requirements so high that only those with new computers can enjoy their product. If you were creating a game solely for the enjoyment of others, wouldn't you want to make it enjoyable for the majority of people, including those who don't have hundreds of dollars to fork over when the newest video card comes out? I mean, my computer is fairly old, but it can run some games at a playable state, and this includes most HL mods. BrainBread is the one where it's constantly at 5 FPS looking at anything but a wall. If I knew anything about how HL worked, I'd try to change the textures to simpler ones, or replace the models with low-poly versions. Unfortunately, there's nothing that can be done about the maps from a player's point of view. I believe I speak for a lot of players when I say that performance outweighs visual quality.

can anybody help me with my installation.Pls reply. or email me at adrian_chy@hotmail.com

I have 1700Mhz GeForce 2 MX 256MB RAM and it works perfect (in offline Mode) But in online games it lags sometimes but thats internet lag.

just to make something clear, for everybody..

theres 2 type of lags: video lag, and network lag.

videolag is low fps, frames per second. if your FPS drops like mad, and the game stutters heavely, your very prone to miss alot of shots. also, the world around you keeps moving but you view it as a sort of slow motion (with like 5-15 fps) in which you can miss alot fo shots.

network lag is the infamous and annoying ping. a ping is the time for a packet to reach the server from your computer, and from the server to reach your computer. it takes ... much milliseconds. in half-life, playable pings is 0-100. annoying is 101-200 and 200+ is just unplayable. the higher your ping, the slower the connection of the server is *or* the further away it is. a american will never have a 30 ping on a australian server.

also, the more data send the more time it takes the more network lag ya got. BB sends alot of data, thats why its reccomended to have no more then 10 players in the server.

My PC Specs: Pentium 4 3GHz 1MB Cache prescott. ATi Radeon 9600 256MB
1GB Ram

OMG!
I got a Geforce 4 TI 4400, Athlon XP 1800+, 1024mb ram and i only got 5 FPS in game when action was going on. I used new nvidia drivers beta that was released for half life 2... and THAT was the problem! Today I switched back to old drivers, 44.67, and wtf, now brainbread works like a dream.