Lag issues

[Toba]

Hey all.

Just got done playing about 2 hours worth of TF2, and I hope I'm not repeating someones post here, but the lag issues on TheVille servers is killing me. Not latency issues, my ping remains calm around 50 or so, but actually game skips. At first I thought it was my computer, but then I heard others complaining of similar issues. Then I thought maybe TF2 was suffering, but upon playin on a public server this afternoon, I noticed it was lag free.

Is this being looked into anywhere? Or is there a fix in sight soon?

Thanks.

[Stevo]

Which servers? Our servers are in different locations and run on various hardware.

[Fano]

have you at all tweaked your network settings? if you haven't, you may want to give that a try, here's an excerpt for chris's FPS configs:

// Good connection
//cl_cmdrate 66
//cl_interp 0.0152
//cl_interp_ratio 1
//cl_lagcompensation 1
//cl_pred_optimize 2
//cl_smooth 0
//cl_smoothtime 0.01
//cl_updaterate 66
//rate 60000

// Bad connection
//cl_cmdrate 40
//cl_interp 0.025
//cl_interp_ratio 1
//cl_lagcompensation 1
//cl_pred_optimize 2
//cl_smooth 0
//cl_smoothtime 0.01
//cl_updaterate 40
//rate 35000

uncomment the section you like (by removing the // before each line) and stick it in your autoexec.cfg

[The Spanish Inquisition]

He is referring to tv7, that is where he was playing and yes it was lagging for many people.

[Toba]

Thanks Spanish, that is correct.

And Fano, gonna have to dumb that down for me. Not much a computer guy. I just enjoy shootin folks.

[Fano]

Thanks Spanish, that is correct.

And Fano, gonna have to dumb that down for me. Not much a computer guy. I just enjoy shootin folks.

Navigate to your TF2 folder, under default settings this is located under C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/*username*/team fortress 2/tf

find your cfg folder and go into it, there should be several files, one for each class, copy one of them and paste it in the same folder, name it "autoexec.cfg" and open it up with notepad, it should be a blank text file.

now paste this stuff into it and save:

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// Good connection
cl_cmdrate 66
cl_interp 0.0152
cl_interp_ratio 1
cl_lagcompensation 1
cl_pred_optimize 2
cl_smooth 0
cl_smoothtime 0.01
cl_updaterate 66
rate 60000

This should optimize your network settings and minimize lag, you'll feel rockets come out faster and experience smoother gameplay, let me know if you need any more help.

[Toba]

That helped a ton. Haven't noticed my game vomiting on me lately lol. Thanks guys.

[Portland_BEER]

@Fano

Super helpful! Thanks.

[Yahoo!!]

Fano, you are a wizard. This is the smoothest running TF2 I have ever had. Ever. The game just works so well. The rockets, the motions and everything that moves just works so well. Thank you so much.

[El_Hefe]

i didn't notice a change

i already had a autoexec file in there with some server commands... can i just skip a line and then add "the code" in that same file?

[The Spanish Inquisition]

i didn't notice a change

i already had a autoexec file in there with some server commands... can i just skip a line and then add "the code" in that same file?

Or you can put it in a separate file called netfix.cfg and then in your autoexec.cfg add a line that says:

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exec netfix.cfg

This is a good way to organize config files instead of having one big file that you change all the time.

[Fano]

i didn't notice a change

i already had a autoexec file in there with some server commands... can i just skip a line and then add "the code" in that same file?

just check the file to see if the config you have doesn't already have those settings in there for you.

otherwise yeah you can just add that to the same file at the bottom

[Clay Pigeon]

have you at all tweaked your network settings? if you haven't, you may want to give that a try, here's an excerpt for chris's FPS configs:

// Good connection
//cl_cmdrate 66
//cl_interp 0.0152
//cl_interp_ratio 1
//cl_lagcompensation 1
//cl_pred_optimize 2
//cl_smooth 0
//cl_smoothtime 0.01
//cl_updaterate 66
//rate 60000

// Bad connection
//cl_cmdrate 40
//cl_interp 0.025
//cl_interp_ratio 1
//cl_lagcompensation 1
//cl_pred_optimize 2
//cl_smooth 0
//cl_smoothtime 0.01
//cl_updaterate 40
//rate 35000

uncomment the section you like (by removing the // before each line) and stick it in your autoexec.cfg

Is there anything like this for really bad connections? Since putting the bad one in my autoexec I'm getting rocket fires not registering.

Or is there any way just to restore the defaults?

[One_Medic_Army]

To restore the defaults, just move/remove the autoexec.cfg file (or remove the code from it).
autoexec.cfg is essentially a file that automatically executes various console commands whenever the game is booted, none of the changes last longer than the game is operating.

[Clay Pigeon]

Does anyone know what the default are though?