Windows Abnormal high lag on Half-Life 2...

I'm having abnormal high lag on half-life 2 multiplayer games (CS, Deathmatch, ...). It's in the 250+ regions, which sucks. Reasons for it to be abnormal:

• In Unreal Tournament 2004 I get a ping of <40 when playing on the same connection, with the same PC
• Single player runs smoothly, so it isn't because my PC is too slow
• LAN Games run smoothly as well, with very low ping

I _am_ using a VPN connection because there's no other way to get internet over here at uni, but this shouldn't be a problem because it works fine in Unreal Tournament 2004.

Does anyone has an idea why this might happen? I'm all out of ideas

 

It is caused by servers and their connections/performance...

So let the Steam sort the games by ping from the lowest , it is nearly impossible that you will have 250+ on every server

 

Lost_Soul, I (obviously ) already did that, but every server I try gives me 200+ ping, and all of them are filled with players with a ping <30ms, and all of them have a so-called ping in the server browser of <20ms...

 

you looked at your netcode?

check the following:

cl_updaterate
cl_cmdrate
rate

 

Well, I apologise if I affronted you , I didnt understand you properly


So open console and play with cl_rate, cl_updaterate and I think cl_cmdrate also affect connection. I have all of them around 2500 (or 25 000 , dont know right now)... Simply try to rise their values, maybe it will help.

If not, I will try to find another solution


EDIT: BigZ was faster

 

I'm unable to open the console, probably because I have an azerty keyboard...

Can I change those values in my config file?

 

i think you can change that in the normal options aswell iirc. ill look for it now

 

cl_rate can't be changed in HL2 AFAIK.

cl_cmdrate, cl_updaterate should be set to 101
rate should be 25000 or 30000

This is, of course, providing you are on broadband.

 

heh.... seems really strange to me. This is first time I heard that cmdrate and updaterate should be 101

 

You might need the -console switch on your shortcut.
If that fails create "userconfig.cfg" in your cstrike (or whatever game you require) folder and add the rate commands bigz suggested.

 

I tried doing that, and with rate set to 25000 there's no differince, but when using 30000 or 250000 (was a typo ) everything is really stuttering, far worse, yet I had a ping of 40 and 1 respectively...

Very weird, but alas no solution