What if we as server ops changed sv_minrate to 60000, wouldnt that fix it. Of course the people who dont have good connection wont do well with it but I dont know how many people that would affect.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Nephyrin Zey <[email protected]> wrote: > <this post is about rate settings, not any bugs relating to rate or lag > that are going around, please keep those to their own threads> > > So last night in my TF2 server, one of my regulars was complaining about > 'the lag', and i asked him to open his console and type rate. '3500' he > reads to me. Well, no wonder. > > This is not the only time i've helped someone up their rate from 3500. I > also have a scrolling message in my 32x servers advising that you up > your rate from the normal max of 30000 to even higher. Right now, both > server and client rate settings have horrible defaults, and it is > causing lag for everyone. > > - rate seems to like to default to 3500 for some people, for some > reason. I've experienced this myself, no idea what causes it. > - 32x servers use way more than 30000 rate in heavy action, net_graph 4 > + spectate makes this very clear > - Servers have net_splitpacket_maxrate set to 15000 by default, and > there's little documentation on this. This causes 'skips' when you first > happen upon a lot of action, as Tony documented. > - Since the l4d-networking-merge patch, either TF2 is using way more > bandwidth, or the way it's calculating rate is more aggressive. 30000 > used to be enough for 32x (though it wasn't perfectly smooth), but now > its just plain laggy. > > So please, everyone make sure your rate/maxrate settings are proper, and > valve, please take a look at client rate defaults. I'm sure 90% of my > players are using rate 30000, and this is just a much laggier experience > than what you could be getting. The other 10% probably have either 10000 > (and probably have long since learned never to join 32x servers due to > lag) or 3500. Neither of these is even for even a good 24x server, so > that sucks. > > - Neph > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
