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Stop relying on expensive full table refreshes. Learn how to implement Change Data Capture (CDC) in Source Engine to reduce database load and achieve near real-time data synchronization.
An architecture note on Source Engine's authoritative-server networking: how lag compensation rewinds entity positions for hitscan validation and why the interpolation buffer is a deliberate tradeoff.
Source Engine light bleeding at brush seams comes from mismatched lightmap resolution or UV alignment, not shader faults. Learn how to diagnose and fix it with consistent _lightmapscale and proper UVs.
A decision guide for Source Engine projects: when the bundled rigid-body physics solver is enough, when a full Havok license earns its cost, and how to validate the performance impact on real hardware.
The goal is to define the concurrent client input threshold at which a Source engine server's deterministic lock-step simulation begins to serialize inputs across a single tick and produce measurable latency spikes. The server processes client commands sequentially per tick, so rapid simultaneous input from many clients can exceed the simulation step budget,
Goal I am working with the Source SDK (2013-era codebase) and need to run a filtered search for entities by classname or targetname across a map that may contain several thousand active entities. The documented approach iterates the global entity linked list linearly, which is O(n) per call, and I want to bound that cost per frame rather than scan everything
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