Like I said, everyone just used to set it to 101 and leave it like that, this is wrong, the correct setting should match your interp otherwise will cause reg problems. Try lowing your updaterate by increments of 10 until the yellow/orange dots go away, you will find servers that have maxupdaterate set to 30 they will go away when you set it to 30 etc.Д«ut what if you join a server that does have sv_maxupdaterate set to 100+? (I will cover this later) then join a server, if you see lots of orange and yellow dots on your net graph, this means your interp is set wrong for the server and you are not receiving the right amount of updates for your interp setting. To show this, set your updaterate to 100, then ex_interp 0. There is no way you check what this is set to unless you have rcon to the server, but you can look at the lines on net_graph 1 to predict what it is set to. So how do you know what to set it to? Servers have a setting called sv_maxupdaterate which determine the maximum updates it will send to you, the default for a CS server is 30, which is bad, most servers nowadays have this set to 100+ but some publics you will find still have it set to 30. People just used to set this to 101 to match cmdrate but didnвЂ™t really know why. cmdrate is data you send to the server, updaterate is data you receive from the server. Updaterate is a tricky one, as the best setting is different depending on the server. And I have used this all along.ДЄssuming you have 100fps (+5 your FPS, 100fps = 105 cmdrate.) Now with 101 you still get red dots, in fact the best cmdrate to use is 105. Try setting your cmdrate to 50, and look at net_graph 1, lots of red dots at the bottom = bad. Red dots appear at the bottom when data is not sent because your cmdrate is not high enough. Now because most people use 100fps people set it 1 above this to 101, so that you are always sending more data than needed, but 101 isnвЂ™t enough. Cmdrate is data you SEND to the server, so every time you shoot, move, move your mouse, anything, cmdrate uploads data. noobs.ДЄnother setting set wrong by 95% of people, the norm was to set this to 101, as your cl_updaterate was set to 101(I will cover this later) but again, this is wrong.

So all the вЂproвЂ™ players thinking you have been playing with a rate of 25000 on LAN are wrong, you have been playing with 20000 all along.

When you play on LAN, rate does nothing at all, in fact you could have rate set to 100, and it would have no effect on LAN, wtf you ask? When you play on LAN, rate is ignored, and it uses sv_lan_rate instead, and by default, yes you guessed it, is set to 20000. People also say well rate 25000 is for LAN and 20000 is for online, wrong again. Half-Life/CS has a maximum rate of 20000, it has been proven many times, and setting your rate to 25000 is pointless and will in fact waste bandwidth. This is why today most players use a rate of 25000. Quake has rates too! And in fact the max rate on Quake was 25000.

Quake, legendary game, the game engine that was used to make Half-Life and in turn CS was created using the Quake engine.

First we will start off with a quick history lesson. goto your graphics card control panel and disable vsync tripple buffering and for using a steam if its updated goto your ingame console and type gl_vsync 0 it will solve your lagg problem.There are 4 main commands which are considered вЂњratesвЂќ, I am going to go explain each one and what the best setting is for each and why.ДЄh rate, the setting that is set wrong by 95% of people who donвЂ™t have a clue and just copy everyone else. if its high try to lower the cl_updaterate 30 or cl_updaterate 60now you can see a lower ms but lowering the ms will make a problem with realtime bullet registry you will find that your shooting time is not perfect or your bullet regi is goin sad, now if you have a graphics card it will definitly sole your fps problem ,coz only a GPU enabled system can give 100 fps. then type cl_cmdrate 101 if your fps supports 101, else go for cl_cmdrate 60 and lastly you type cl_updaterate 101 now the main part is if you see your ms from graph. Д®lse you set the fps to the fps as its shown in the graph. If you see that your graph is showing fps to 100 then you are able with 101 fps. Then as you can see the the graph with fps ms and in and out type fps_max 101

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