This official news post is from before the launch of Old School RuneScape and is copied verbatim from the RuneScape website. It is copyrighted by Jagex.
This update was added on 24 August 2004.
This update was added on 24 August 2004.
I have fixed the problem with the friendserver occasionally struggling when large numbers of people were playing.
I have rewritten a large chunk of the friendserver system, and have also assigned it more memory. As a result it is now running about 4x faster, and should easily be able to handle all the players even at peak time.
Thanks for your patience whilst I fixed this
Andrew