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By the way if anyone wants the Steam skin that I made it is attached to this thread at bottom. just extract in to Steam skins folder and choose it through Steam menu.
Step 1:
First thing you need to do is setup CS so you have access to the console.
Open Steam and select Play Games, Right click CS Source choose properties then click Launch Options button.
Ok in this box there are a few things we need to type which will define how CS will startup.
We are going to tell CS not to load the Joystick driver and also some unused network protocols, aswell as telling it we want the console activated.
-noipx -noudp -nojoy -console
Step 2:
We will change the rate in which your PC talks and listens to the server by using Cl_updaterate and Cl_cmdrate through the console, to open the console press the Tidle key below the Esc key.
For broadband the rate should be between 60 and 100 for both Cl commands.
(Join a server for the next step... Any server)
First you need to see what your PC is doing so for this we need to open the net graph so for this use the command net_graph 3 in the console.
Ok now once you have typed in the net_graph 3 command we should see a nice text display in the corner showing us a lot of information. The bits we are interested in are Ping and Choke. Ping is how long it takes for your information to reach the server, choke is when your trying to access more data than the server can provide. Choke happens because Cl_updaterate is too high. So from this we can see that we may need to take the Cl_updaterate down a few notches. This you will have to figure out yourself by changing the rates to the same number and then going back into server to check your choke.
The lower the choke the better and once you find the sweet spot you should find the game will be alot smoother.
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I hope this helped some of you sort out lag spikes and stutter during play.
I will update as and when I have more tweaks.
Step 1:
First thing you need to do is setup CS so you have access to the console.
Open Steam and select Play Games, Right click CS Source choose properties then click Launch Options button.



Ok in this box there are a few things we need to type which will define how CS will startup.
We are going to tell CS not to load the Joystick driver and also some unused network protocols, aswell as telling it we want the console activated.
-noipx -noudp -nojoy -console

Step 2:
We will change the rate in which your PC talks and listens to the server by using Cl_updaterate and Cl_cmdrate through the console, to open the console press the Tidle key below the Esc key.
For broadband the rate should be between 60 and 100 for both Cl commands.
(Join a server for the next step... Any server)
First you need to see what your PC is doing so for this we need to open the net graph so for this use the command net_graph 3 in the console.
Ok now once you have typed in the net_graph 3 command we should see a nice text display in the corner showing us a lot of information. The bits we are interested in are Ping and Choke. Ping is how long it takes for your information to reach the server, choke is when your trying to access more data than the server can provide. Choke happens because Cl_updaterate is too high. So from this we can see that we may need to take the Cl_updaterate down a few notches. This you will have to figure out yourself by changing the rates to the same number and then going back into server to check your choke.
The lower the choke the better and once you find the sweet spot you should find the game will be alot smoother.
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I hope this helped some of you sort out lag spikes and stutter during play.
I will update as and when I have more tweaks.