Chicago Boxes are Upgraded!

[Failhorse]

We have upgrading the user experience.

Enjoy!

[LegendarySurgeon]

I guess it's a good thing I did something else today besides plan to play on CSn.

[stanley]

We are currently upgrading the user experience.

details?

[LegendarySurgeon]

We are currently upgrading the user experience.

details?

Clearly it's just a clever ploy to pop West Box 2.

[DaBeeZy]

*coughWestcoast1*cough

excuse me

[Vivi Hill]

The chimp amused me.

[obzen]

howdy. first post.

i don't mean to... be rude or insult? but, i have noticed something that seems very interdasting.

i haven't played here very long (maybe a week or a little more) and i really enjoy the community as well as the setup/mods/plugins you have for your servers, however... i notice that i (as well as others) get massive periods of choke (or as others call it, lag) on slaybox 1 and 2. i believe it could be due to the sv_maxrate of 25000. mainly because 25000 bytes is a mere 25KB/s, which is much slower than any fiber optic line that a game server would be running on... i am assuming these are the boxes that were upgraded and maybe someone has forgotten to adjust these settings in the server config?

i have done some prying...

westbox 1 and 2
sv_maxrate of 0 (unlimited KBytes/s)
sv_minrate 100000 (100 KBytes/s)
sv_maxupdaterate 120
sv_minupdaterate 10
sv_maxcmdrate 66
sv_mincmdrate 10

slaybox 1 and 2
sv_maxrate of 25000 (25 KBytes/s)
sv_minrate 13000 (13 KBytes/s)
sv_maxupdaterate 67
sv_minupdaterate 33
sv_maxcmdrate 67
sv_mincmdrate 33

again, i don't mean to insult anyone. i am just bringing this up in the interest of the community. i very rarely get any choke on the westboxes and if i do, it's maybe 1 or 2 as compared to periods of 60+ choke on the slayboxes.

[Failhorse]

Sounds to me like you modded autoexec file is choking your own system. Valve limited the tic rate and FPS to 67 essentially making anything over 35k a farce.
I'd suggest moving your cl_interp back to something reasonable.

[obzen]

The values I posted are the settings on your servers, not the settings in my autoexec. If it were my settings causing the problem, I would choke no matter what server I join. Besides, I have adjusted all of my settings to see if it's me and I assure you it is not.

I know of the ticrate limitation. Rate, however, is not limited by ticrate. Ticrate is limited by rate, though. A ticrate of 66 is 66 updates per second. Rate sets a limit to the size of the update and 66 small updates will always be less than 66 big updates.

The default value of sv_maxrate is 0 (unlimited). This is the setting on each of your west coast servers, where there is basically no choke. Setting this to 0 allows players to take full advantage of their broadband Internet connections. However, limiting this to 25000 (a mere 25 KB/s) is essentially choking all of the players. They may as well be playing on dial up. This is basically what the Chicago slayboxes are doing.

This article (http://www.jason35.com/netcode.htm), however poorly written grammar wise, does a good job of explaining the settings I am discussing as well as how you can test your settings in game.

Again, I just want to help. I truly mean no disrespect to anyone.

Off topic, are you a drummer, Fail Horse?

[cloud]

also, im just curious, but why are the slay boxes using sv_pure? I have some skins for a low violence mode that i let my little bother play with, but only when the skins are active. The slay boxes are some of our favorite servers and he misses not being able to play on them anymore (its my parents, not me). Is there something we could do about this?

[Ninja]

I believe the custom stuff only works in slaybox1

[Techercizer]

I believe the custom stuff only works in slaybox1

Not anymore. Fingerman reinstalled TF2 and lost the whitelist.

I talked to him about it a while ago; he said he'd look into it. In the mean time, I haven't really been able to play TF2.