While I was on todays empires pug, I couldn't help but to choke. net_graph would constantly report inbound bandwidth to my internet connections max and I'd stall to hell. Even clientside inputs were stalled! There was nothing effecting my bandwidth other then hl2. This sucks. Maby if I disable QoS packet scheduler? I dunno, but I'd LIKE to be able to play at all. edit: QoS does not effect hl2's connection. I'd be damned to figure out how it works anyway.
Choke can be caused by more than connection speed afaik. Is your computer older? On a pug....there's going to be a crapload of stuff going on. The server may even be able to cause choke (well, I know it CAN, but I don't know if the clientside counter will reflect that.)
AMD Athlon 66 x2 4400 with nVidia 6600gts and 2gigs of ram, so I know its all, network problems. Yea, there was plenty, I couldn't even move when the server just rotated to emp_escort. Tanks... people everyone in one large area :p. But this is entirely new! I've seen plenty of matches with lots of people on escort! the problem only happened recently. By recently, I mean roughly 1 month ago? Its been a while sense I played.... but I know it wasn't doing this before. BTW: Why is it that when the client is lagged to a certain point, your HUD refreshes? Like, when it catches up, you'd hear a bunch of weapon pickup sounds and such.
I think that happens when you haven't had an update from the server for a certain amount of time, and you receive an update. The client then syncs with the server, causing it to give you all the weapons again.
Only almost all empires servers with more than 20 ppl on I get between 5 and 20/s IN and maybe 50-60 Choke.
Some server probably changed your rates (with sv_maxrate, sv_maxupdaterate or whatever those commands are). Have a look at them. Here's a CSS-based tutorial: http://www.fishtankclan.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.44 But in short you just need to make sure your "rate" command is at 25000 or something and cl_cmdrate is at 33 or something around that
ahh, ok. thanks for the guide! I was hopeing I could find something for information on those things. Hopefuly I could put this information to good use. Now if I could just stay up long enough to to sit at my computer.
Servers that force rates are evil. Evil, I tell you! Try turning off steam friends - a few months ago, I couldn't play with SF turned on.
its NOT Evil to set settings! Many ppl crys about "lowrates lowrates lowrates"! So the server-admin can change the settings from all player to special rates. U play ESL than u know what i mean! Play a Gather there on a server with zBlock and change ur settings to 30/20/7500. u will see how this ppl start crying. Thats the point why a server from me is set to 100/100/25000. no more cry.... The other side is, not all players got a good connection. in germany ppl play online with DSL-Light (~384k and up). This ppl CANT play with 100/100/25000! this ppl where permanent laggy on the server. The other point.... Choke = from u to Server Loss = Server to u Try to change ur rates ingame with "cl_cmdrate / cl_updaterate / rate ", to get the best performance. (dosent work if the server-admin has set it in the server.cfg!) Take a look at my poste here -> http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=5439
You just proved my point - that is why forcing rates is plain stupid, and admins who do it don't deserve to be admins.
