Comments on: CS 1.6 Rates Guide

By: Coyote Smith

Coyote Smith — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:07:33 +0000

Awesome! I have always needed someone to go into depth about the rates. I do have some questions, though. (I have thouroughly read your instructions, unlike the idiot above).

I’ve been having problems; i still have choke/loss/redots on my graphs, even with all my rate setup*. I can only get a max fps of 60 even if I change to max_fps 101.

My Rates currently:
Rate: 20000
cl_updaterate 101
cl_cmdrate 65
fps_max 61
and i used ex_interp 0 (which set it to .01)

My rig:
Proccessor i5 2.37 ghz
Ram 4GB
Nivdia Geforce 250 GTS

Yet, I still can’t seem to kill my Choke/Loss in any server. (Even good ones) Is this just a bad Internet connection or maybe a PC setting that’s somehow counterdicting my efforts in game?

*Side note: I actually have played CS on this rig before where I was getting 100 fps and no choke/lag.

By: Raj

Raj — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:07:56 +0000

Hey Craig
I have an internet connection with dwnld speed 5mbps and upload of 800kbps and I am hosting a server but the problem is me and my frnds r unable to play silent hill mod,Zombie plague mod without lag, server lags pretty badly.
I am hosting a 10 player cs 1.6 server.
Pc spec are dual core 2ghz, 3gb ram.
Pls Pls help me bro!

By: dewarn

dewarn — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:15:25 +0000

Btw: Would be nice if you could tell something about cl_rate!

By: dewarn

dewarn — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:12:19 +0000

Hey Craig.

I use net_graph 1. Sometimes I get a yellow dot(just one) on my graph, and then after one minute or something it comes back, that yellow dot.
And that’s how it goes, one yellow dot once a minute~
And how much i lower my updaterate it won’t disappear.

I don’t really get it :S

Should i just ignore it? It’s one dot i mean, does it make any diffrence?

By: sid

sid — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:44:19 +0000

Hey craig!… the server on which i play has fixed/locked cl_updaterate to 101… everytime i join that server my cl_updaterate automatically changes to 101( other settings remains same)… Now, i want to ask what should be my ex_interp in this case..? pls help….

By: dany

dany — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:22:19 +0000

craig you did a good job clearing things up. I used to work with valve,ur guide is true

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:25:01 +0000

Don’t use wireless.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:12:49 +0000

Who is graig?

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:12:26 +0000

I will put it up somewhere soon.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:10:49 +0000

It’s choppy because the server is only running 30 update rate and you are seeing exactly where the models are. With interp 0.1 your CS is just guessing where the other players are most of the time, which makes it smooth, but reg will be bad for you.

If you know the people who host the server, get them to set sv_maxupdaterate 100 in their server.cfg.

If you want better reg play on a stable 100 updaterate server with interp 0.