Choke probs?

Heya tf2f.

First off what is choke and what does it do? Ive been noticing that ive got near 40 in a very busy situation and i guess that it isnt good.
Now i want to know if i can do anything to prevent it from going that high and how?
I also get some loss but thats very rare and its max 2-3.


Thanks in advance.


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And by the way does loads of choke screw up my hit registration?

Although I can't help your choke problems, yes it will screw with your weapons, especially hit scan ones.

What exactly is choke? I never understood it.

Choke is essentially the inability for your computer to process incoming packets from the server.


If your frame rate is too low, your choke will go up.
If your rates are too high, your choke will go up.


your rates should be:
cl_cmdrate 101
cl_updaterate 101
rate 30000

Is that a general thing, or just for him? I've been getting spikes of choke up to 10 lately.

Generally.

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tf2 servers are not 100tick. cl_cmdrate and cl_updaterate should be 66.

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it doesnt matter if you set it higher than what servers allow cuz it will get stuck at cap anyway