Choke in combat
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Editlodea Join Date: 2009-06-20 Member: 67877Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Editlodea Join Date: 2009-06-20 Member: 67877Members, Reinforced - Shadow
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Anybody knows what choke rate exactly is ?
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Choke - Choke is server lag. Choke basically means that your computer is sending your players position, and what he does (shoot, nade, knife) to the server, and its not getting there. Counter Strike Source default is to send your players actions to the server 30 times a second. Choke is caused by two things:
Your computer is sending too many packets to the server per second. If you try to send 100 commands to the server per second, and it can only accept 40, you are going to be getting 60 choke. This will make you SUCK, none of your shots will register, and only 40% of the things you try to make your player do will be done. (for solution, see below)
The server is not able to read all of the information being sent to it. This can be caused by network lag at the server, or CPU lag at the server. The client cannot control this, but can accomodate for it (solution below)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So, I could see how in heavy combat or during a long match it could get worse. I guess it could be a client-side, connection, or server-side issue and I'm not sure there is really anything you can do to fix it atm.
And ya, the choke rate will still hit high in combat even with the server sitting at 30 ticks stable.
Also, standing still in a room, when the avg rec kb/s spikes above like 8-10 the choke also goes up proportionally somewhat. This leads me to ask whether this is because of optimized 'sleeping' code that activates all at once when you go into combat, causing it to flood the server?
You know, I bet it is. In particular, hydras go into a sleeping mode when no enemy units are around to help reduce their drag on servers. It makes a bit of sense that if, as a marine, you walk into a room full of hydras they'll all suddenly wake up at the same time and give you a momentary spike that might cause choke.
My problem is I get really bad choke even if it's just 1v1 and nothing else in the room. I suspect being hit or having an alien close to me seems to cause very large spikes which get worse the more full the server is despite a tick rate of 30. My fps is generally over 40 on a full server unless the server tick rate starts to fall. The onoes patch was the only patch I didn't have this problem. In that patch it didn't matter if the server was full or if I was in combat everthing was silky smooth until the server performance or fps took a large hit.