Resolved - Server Rates

[L. Hatcher]

Name: L. Hatcher

Rank: Rec

Type of issue: Steam

Brief Description of Issue:

I had not checked my rates in a while and realised that they were not at my prefered settings. I was in the main menu when i changed the basic rates to be what I wanted: cl_updaterate 101, cl_cmdrate 101, rate 128000, and fps_max 999. I seemed to work fine in other servers but when I connected to our public server, the rates seemed to get capped. Unfortunatly I am not on my gaming PC at the moment so I could not get you those numbers. I will reply with them when I am, but my question still stands, does the server cap/set your rates?

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Edited October 6, 2015 by Woz 1st MRB

[Woz 1st MRB]

The way that networking works in source games has an inherit limiter.

"rate" only sets the maximum bytes/sec that your client will allow. If this is high enough, the server will never reach it, so that is one limit.

"cl_updaterate" sets the maximum rate that your client will accept update packets from the server per second. This is limited by the tick rate of the server (default 66 unless modded to 100)

"cl_cmdrate" sets the maximum rate that your client will agree to send command packets to the server per second. This is also limited by the tick rate of the server.

fps_max does not affect network performance, just local hardware input performance.

There are a few commands that the server can use to further limit these as well if the server is in need of some breathing room performance wise.

"sv_minrate" "sv_maxrate" is similar to "rate", but it is the servers way of limiting it's rates per client in bytes/sec

"sv_minupdaterate" "sv_maxupdaterate" is similar to "cl_updaterate", but it is the servers way of further limiting the rate that it sends snapshots.

If a higher level admin would like to step in and clarify if we use any of the sv_* commands, this would ultimately answer his question.

[Candy 1st MRB]

Any updates here? its been awhile.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

There is a cap for server rates. I can't look them up right now, any officer should be able to find them. If not, I'll post the server rates when I get home.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

sv_maxrate "25000" // Max bandwidth rate allowed on server, 0 = unlimited. Default: 0


sv_minrate "13000" // Min bandwidth rate allowed on server, 0 = unlimited. Default: 0


sv_maxupdaterate "67" // Maximum updates per second that the server will allow. Default: 60


sv_minupdaterate "33" // Minimum updates per second that the server will allow. Default: 10


sv_maxcmdrate "67" // Maximum updates per second that the server will allow. Default: 60


sv_mincmdrate "33" // Minimum updates per second that the server will allow. Default: 10


sv_client_min_interp_ratio "0.05"


sv_client_max_interp_ratio "0.1"

[Woz 1st MRB]

Thanks for dropping that info in here Lt. Col., very much appreciated.

I'm marking as resolved. Be sure to reference this in the future for questions about server rates and settings.