


Cmdrate is data that you SEND to the server, so every time you shoot, walk, move your mouse, anything, cmdrate uploads data. 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 actually isn’t enough. Red dots appear at the bottom when data is not sent because your cmdrate is not high enough. Try setting your cmdrate to 50 for example and look at net_graph 1, lots of red dots at the bottom = bad. Now with 101 you still get red dots from time to time, in fact the best cmdrate to use is always 5 more than your fps, so for the maximum 100fps 105 is fine.Īssuming you have 100fps (Always +5 your FPS, 100fps = 105 cmdrate.) Red dots at bottom of net graph showing unsent data. Updaterate is a tricky one as the best setting is different depending on the server. Cmdrate is data you send to the server, updaterate is data you receive from the server. People just used to set this to 101 to match cmdrate but didn’t really know why. 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. There is no way you can check what it is set to unless you have rcon to the server, but you can look at the lines on net_graph 1 to predict it. To show this, set your updaterate to 100, then ex_interp 0. (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. 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. Still on ♥♥♥♥ server, but using correct updaterate and interp.īut what if you join a server that does have sv_maxupdaterate set to 100+? ♥♥♥♥ server using the default sv_maxupdaterate 30, reg will be random and terrible. 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.
