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Digital said:
You have a couple options to improve your game play. The first is net_graph 3.This is going to allow you to monitor everything I’m about to tell you. Next know your computer.
If you have a dinosaur you might want to upgrade. Or if for instance you have a laptop you may be out of luck in the upgrade department.
Next off you’re going to want to make sure your rates are all good. Go to a stable server (not wcu.) preferably a very small server or a clan private server and adjust your cl_updaterate cl_cmdrate rate & fps_max.
Your optimal options with a good connection and good computer are going to be the maximum for these which are cl_updaterate 101 cl_cmdrate 101 rate 25000 & fps_max 101.
You can move the numbers around to adjust your LOSS and CHOKE. You don’t want any LOSS ever and you want to keep your CHOKE low.
In a big server choke is caused by the server not your client in most cases so don’t worry about getting choke in a big server at the beginning of a round when 15 cts are throwing nades or running around shooting.
I went over the net stuff first because if you have loss or a lot of choke it may appear that you are dropping frames but in fact you are just not receiving the proper amount of info from the server.
Once you get that optimized you can continue on to graphics settings.
First off you need to know a little bit about how your eye works. The human eye can only view about 20-30 FPS (most TV broadcasts are only 24 FPS). So why have more you ask? Smoother game play.
While you can only view 20-30 fps from your eye the game runs much smoother with less tearing and jumpy ness the higher your fps is.
A lot of people use a method called VSYNC to increase their FPS. VSYNC in a nut shell synchronizes your graphics card with your monitor.
It makes sure your graphics card doesn’t out perform what your monitor can display.
If you turn VSYNC OFF you will allow your graphics card to display as many frames as your card can physically render regardless of what your monitor can display. This can cause tearing or a slight jumpy ness but the tradeoff is a higher FPS.
If you want to see what your GPU can truly do go to your graphics control software and force VSYNC OFF for hl.exe then go to console and type: developer 1 and then type: fps_max 999
At this point depending on your graphics card you’ll notice your FPS is much higher then before. You’ll also probably notice that your game isn’t running as smooth because your FPS is constantly fluctuating depending on the graphical load in-game.
The choke point in this case is your monitor. Your monitor can only display as many FPS as it can HERTZ.
What are HERTZ you might ask? Well HERTZ is a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second. Just like a Frame Per Second.
Your monitor displays Vertical Hertz and Horizontal Hertz. For the purpose of simplicity I’m just going to cover how Vertical Hertz effects your gaming experience. If you’d like to learn more yourself you can go here: http://www.osdever.net/FreeVGA/vtiming.htm
Their are essentially two types of monitors. LCD and CRT. CRTs are the big box monitors that a lot of us have. and LCDs are the thin-light monitors that are currently in main stream production replacing the CRTs. These two monitors have their trade-offs but without diving too deep into how a CRT and LCD work I’ll just explain what the Hertz differences are.
In most cases a CRT monitor can display more Vertical Hertz then a LCD can. Most low-medium end CRTs can display 85-100Hz while higher end CRTs can display 200hz or more. LCDs are usually limited to 60-75hz with only the cutting edge LCDs coming close to 100hz.
Each resolution setting your monitor has (640×480 800×600 1024×768 etc) has a maximum Hertz value asigned to it from the manufacturer. Each monitor is different but for most part medium end CRT monitors can run 800×600 in 100hz and 1024×768 in 85hz.
So what this all comes down to is what type of monitor you have. What resolution you play your game of choice in. How many Hertz that resolution can display for your monitor.
Asuming your GPU can display 100 FPS and your monitor of choice can display 100hz at your desired resolution you can play with VSYNC ON and game at 100 TRUE FPS without any tearing or graphical loss.
I use a program called RefreshLock to force my monitor to display the maximum hertz at my desired resolution.
You can download the latest version 2.21 here: http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rl/download.html
READ & UNDERSTAND the instructions before you use the program and you should have no problems at all.
Some side effects of forcing hertz on your monitor are that you might notice your mouse sensitivity has changed. and you may have to re-size your screen to properly fit your monitor.
Asuming you did everything correctly you should have VSYNC ON, developer 0, max_fps 101, and 100 TRUE FPS in-game.
:colinpowell:
ok 1 of the 2 idiots that would never leave spawn, mic-spammed, teamflashed, etc, came in & started again tonight. same admin as the other night…idiot didn’t make it 2 rounds before getting temp banned! ty!
RaVeN DiZzle said:
If it was me I’m sorry, not sure if it was but I’m just sayin.To be fair, its kind of hard to hear radio spamming from the other team, or even be aware of it if nobody says anything.
I did repeatedly kick one yesterday, followed by a 1 hour temp ban, goes by the name of idiot ultimate.
even if it was you, no need to apologize. i’m just suggesting that sometimes people get sick of babysitting so maybe they can be given a short break from admin. besides, you’re on vent so you would’ve heard it there
rossy said:
upload it GRK liam told me u are slacking.it’s true
demos are too big & i cant zip b/c nothing ever works right on 64-bit XP
and to chris’ point, i’m merely referring to only 1 recent example where the kid had a blantant aimbot. several people went into spec & asked admin(s) to ban, even his own teammates were telling the admins that they all saw it too. and the offender hasn’t posted anyway :shocker: so i guess that i’m suggesting that it takes about 10 seconds to assess that situation.
YahooEarth said:
Just curious, who were/was the admin(s) in the server at the time. I believe we do a fairly good job of keeping order in the server whether it is muting, or kicking people to get the point across.But yes, demo I would love to see.
And I hope it wasn’t me!!
nah. look, i know that it sux being an admin, i’m an admin on a 16 slot server. also, i understand that sometimes people seem like they’d be great admins & then aren’t and vice-versa. but this weekend there was someone on, clearly aimbotting & it took 7 rounds before he got banned. a frustrating thing is when the admin(s) don’t do anything b/c something isn’t affecting their game.
that leads me to another point, i play this game for fun. i play on this server b/c of the people who play here AND b/c of the rules. it’s not fun when people don’t follow the rules. i’m sick of being told: “stfu. i’ll play the way i want to play.” actually, i don’t care how anyone plays, just follow the rules. Ts have to plant & CTs defuse, etc. spawncamping w/ an awp every single round of every *$@+ map, until time runs out (& thus, not planting) is against the rules (and, how is that even fun & what’s the point?). yet, some admins don’t enforce it.
there are servers out there that allow you to camp out every round, go play there. or, come to the server i’m admin on & try it, or teamflash, spam, w/e
GRK said:
some of you are not capable of being admins. please give it up. i have demo’d the last 20+ minutes where admins did nothing while people spammed mics, flashes, etc. after being flashed in spawn multiple times, admin blames me in pchat. you want the server to die like others, keep it up.lol, e-thugs threatening me
MajorMajorMajor said:
well its isn’t dmg or killin streaks but its funnyback when the gun wouldnt show up in spawn in scoutzknifez… biggest stack ever
w…t…f? what skins are those, cz?
ZAattackCH@WCUg said:
I like votemap personally, but i will be fair and do a vote first…voting ends when i think there are enough votes over the other…thanks for you voteyes
d2.sticky-icky said:
3 MAPS THAT SHOULD BE PLAYED IN WCU1. de_piranesi
2. de_cpl_strike
3. de_storm
IF ENOUGH PEOPLE VOUCH FOR THESE MAPS(you can support 1 or 2 or all 3), THEN WE CAN PLAY THEM!
C’MON PEOPLE! <3333
REPLYING WILL ONLY TAKE 20 SECONDS!
1. yes
2. mill
3. hell no (too many ppl dont know it)
sticky’s right but it gets worse with each steam update. i never used to lag here & now i do quite a bit. also, i used to get 100 fps but now it’s never that high & constantly changes from 30 – 80 or 90 (i tried 2 other vid cards to no avail). but it isn’t just here; the server i’m admin on i used to ping 15-20 & now it’s double that w/ the same fps & lag issues.
i’m telling u, it’s the steam updates
NoDice said:
voice_enable “1”voice_forcemicrecord “0.000000”
voice_modenable “1”
sv_voiceenable “1”
hyde should try this
what’s the server ip? steam keeps dropping my favorites & although i’ve seen it here, i can’t find it. perhaps putting it in the “[welcome to wcu]” sticky? thx!
red said:
My plan for a map rotation:– 17 maps
– 3 of the map slots to be rotated biweekly at slot numbers 4, 11, and 16
– Put the more popular maps before and after to encourage people to stay for the new maps introduced.
– In parenthesis are the map times.
Rotation:
Slot1: de_dust2 (25)
Slot2: de_prodigy (20)
Slot3: cs_office (20)
Slot4: BIWEEKLY ROTATOR (15)
Slot5: de_nuke (20)
Slot6: de_cbble (20)
Slot7: awp_map or awp_dust (15) [possibly rotated too]
Slot8: de_train (20)
Slot9: de_chateau (20)
Slot10: de_dust2 (25)
Slot11: BIWEEKLY ROTATOR (15)
Slot12: de_inferno (25)
Slot13: de_dust (20)
Slot14: scoutzknivez (15)
Slot15: de_aztec (20)
Slot16: BIWEEKLY ROTATOR (15)
Slot17: cs_italy (20)
More on the BIWEEKLY ROTATORS:
– These maps can include any type of map, be it official, cs or de, or custom, as, fy, cs, de, aim, etc.
– A thread will be made where you can suggest the map you want for the next cycle.
– If a new map introduced is a hit with the community, it can be added as a new slot or take the place of a map with less support.
This plan is just a draft, so please feel free to make suggestions! But do not discuss maps that can be added as a rotator, thats for a diff thread
looks good but less time on d2 & inferno + more scoutz & awp_dust
