Hey everyone,
 
I wanted to give you all the heads up that we're making some big changes to our game servers. We'll be migrating to a different provider that will provide us with better locations to host the game servers. Games include Battlefield 4, Team Fortress 2, Killing Floor 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Locations will be made available in Dallas, Chicago, NY/NJ, Log Angeles, London, and Frankfurt.
 
With a clear heading, all should be live by early next week.
 
As always, any and all feedback is welcomed. Feel free to leave a reply, PM, email, or hop on Discord if you want to discuss anything with me or the EGC team.
 
See you in game!
 
UPDATE: Game servers now live: http://www.evgagaming.com/servers.aspx

Hi MSim,
 
Yes, we are giving their service a try.  We will update everyone when this is complete.

Does this mean I will have to hunt down and favorite the EVGA servers again or will they stay at the same address?

Oh boy! More fun!

aka_STEVE_b
Think of it as a new game you get to play for free - very similar to 'Where's Waldo' ,  it's called  find the new servers

You mean like an Easter Egg hunt?

Nah, I just go here and open the server I want and 'favorite' it. http://www.evgagaming.com/

MSim,
 
Thank you for sharing this with us as I did not know about that.  We were just looking for the best rated service to try and make sure that our community has the best experience possible. 
 

MSim
Gameservers helped evga gaming out before, they sponsored "EVGA BlackOps Gaming Event" with 12 CoD:BlackOps servers back in the day (2011).  They allowed us to keep the Free DLC gamecodes, that you receive for renting a BlackOps server, we gave them away to random community members.
 

 
 
 
 
 

Also just a quick mention we will not be turning off our current servers to switch over, we will make sure that everything is live and then switch over.  Once switched we will notify everyone and then turn off the current servers.  
 
There will be no down time for the game servers.
 

Game servers have been updated and are now live.
 
Please see the full list here:
 
http://www.evgagaming.com/servers.aspx

Are all the BF4 servers going to stay 30hz?

I don't understand anything about what that speed in Hz means or how it affects gameplay. I just search for a server with the lowest ping and I'm done. Adding the new servers to my Favorite list now. Thanks again.

MSim

EVGATech_ChristianB

MSim
Are all the BF4 servers going to stay 30hz?

Yes. We may change this in the future depending on how the new service goes. Anything above 30Hz is really only for competitive gameplay, IMHO, but that could change in the future. Casual gameplay seems fine at 30Hz.

Where did you read anything above 30Hz is really only for competitive gameplay.

I didn't. I said it's my personal opinion.

EVGATech_ChristianB

Zuhl3156
I don't understand anything about what that speed in Hz means or how it affects gameplay. I just search for a server with the lowest ping and I'm done. Adding the new servers to my Favorite list now. Thanks again.

The Hz is how often the server updates per second. Higher Hz roughly translates to more accurate gameplay. 30Hz is typically all that is needed for your every day gaming needs. 60Hz and higher come into play for competitive gameplay like clan games, etc.

That's like saying all you typically need for gaming is GTX 950, why bother buying a GTX1080.
 
EVGA should at least try running 40Hz on the servers, test the new Game Server Providers hardware.
 
 
 
 
 

Let me see if I understand this correctly. As long as I am getting more than 30 FPS I should get no warnings from the server? Basically I am gaming at 30 FPS on the server regardless of my frame rate on my 144 Hz monitor?

MSim,
 
Thanks for your feedback.  We are having all of our BF4 servers updated to 40 Hz for the tick and hopefully this will help anyone with concerns.
 
 

MSim

EVGATech_ChristianB

Zuhl3156
I don't understand anything about what that speed in Hz means or how it affects gameplay. I just search for a server with the lowest ping and I'm done. Adding the new servers to my Favorite list now. Thanks again.

The Hz is how often the server updates per second. Higher Hz roughly translates to more accurate gameplay. 30Hz is typically all that is needed for your every day gaming needs. 60Hz and higher come into play for competitive gameplay like clan games, etc.

That's like saying all you typically need for gaming is GTX 950, why bother buying a GTX1080.
 
EVGA should at least try running 40Hz on the servers, test the new Game Server Providers hardware.