hello folks. i used to play your servers a bit, mainly jump and a bit mge, a while back but stopped playing for around 6 months. now when i try and join the servers i get kicked after a few seconds with the warning 'cl_cmdrate must be only numbers and set to a value of 30+'. this never used to be an issue and i haven't changed anything, except a little bit tweaking to try and resolve this issue, since everything was fine and i could connect. i use chris's max fps config and the settings for my net conncetion are as follows: // Good connection cl_cmdrate 66 cl_interp 0 cl_interp_ratio 1 cl_lagcompensation 1 cl_pred_optimize 2 cl_smooth 0 cl_smoothtime 0.01 cl_updaterate 66 rate 60000 i did have it set to the 'Bad Connection' settings so i could occassionally play US servers late night/early morning. even still, they still meet the requirement: // Bad connection //cl_cmdrate 30 //cl_interp 0 //cl_interp_ratio 2 //cl_lagcompensation 1 //cl_pred_optimize 2 //cl_smooth 0 //cl_smoothtime 0.01 //cl_updaterate 33 //rate 35000 (ofc these are commented as i'm just copy pasting from my autoexec.cfg) while there are other servers to play, i always found your servers to be decent for me, and generally full with decent people. any ideas? my pc is terrible and old so really removing the .cfg isn't a great idea. its also only LZ servers this seems to be happening on. any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance.
somewhere in your config is a line that must look like this: cl_cmdrate +30 or something simular, remove the "+", or whatever character around the number, it must be numbers only. the 30+ in there is a indication of that it must be 30 or higher. personally, I'd set them like this: // Good connection rate 80000 cl_cmdrate 66 cl_updaterate 66 cl_interp 0.035 cl_interp_ratio 2 cl_lagcompensation 1 cl_pred_optimize 2 cl_smooth 1 cl_smoothtime 0.034 why? it will be smoother, and smoother is better. very low computers need a bit more leeway.
will try those settings, cheers. i did a search function on my autoexec but there isn't anything untoward in it. i then looked at my config.cfg, which i have never editted, and it has: rate "60000\par" cl_cmdrate "66\par" cl_updaterate "66\par" is it the strange '\par' bit causing it? like i said i have never altered this so surely thats been automated by the game? i'm happy to post the full autoexec, just it's a little large and most of it is chris's standard edits. edit: ohh, i did try manually putting in the command to alter it in the console once. i got back an error that my client had become corrupted, after being on the server for a few mins, and i had to restart steam. just to test i didn't restart and joined another server and all was fine. like i said it only seems to be LZ servers and i was kind of hoping someone had this issue previously with a custom config.
remove the \par the console command takes only digits. also, config.cfg gets overwritten every time you exit the game with the then current settings, so it must be somewhere in another file as well, maybe that is called from autoexec.bat ( "exec otherfilename" is the command to run "otherfilename.cfg" at that point). or in any of the class .cfg files.
all the weird stuff in the rate is usually an indication that someone tries to mask their ping (ping 5 or lower) and its an easy fix on your side.
yeah, im trying to rate hack (not that i would even begin to know where to start) from a UK 50meg cable connection?! the point of that would be...? if its easy to fix, explain please, thats all i'm asking. i use a broesel hud and a slightly edited chris's max frames config, that's it. i've played on match and pick-up servers without problem, this is only happening on LZ servers. i'm just not understanding how my config clearly sets my rates at a proper level but the server is saying otherwise. like i said, i used the servers before i stopped playing and didn't get any problems. so, its something thats altered in the past 6 months. whether thats LZ or a Valve conflict. surely someone else has had this problem as these are two of the most common addons/configs. attached the error pic: