counter strike: source settings

[Slinkie]

Hi Folks,

After a long absense I have decided to give CS:S a go again. I have played about 10-15 mins put gave up as my ping kept spiking. Can you please let me know how I can go about sorting this out. I have changed my settings already to

rate 25000
cl_updaterate 100
cl_cmdrate 100

(I was told to do this by some random on a server) It hasn't really helped, my ping hanged around 35 - 40 (ntl 4mb I think) and every 30 seconds or so jumps to 100 and then falls back to 35-40 gradually.

Also, the last time I played CS:S I had a 15" Monitor. Now I am playing it at 1680x1050 but it just looks weird. I'd have though everything would look a bit smaller than it does at this resolution, plus it looks like the netgraph isn't all the screen, is there anyway of fixing this or is it right to look like this?

Also, please let me know any other settings I can use to help me out, I used to know loads but have forgotton them all!

Thanks

Matt

 

[Slinkie]

Hi

I am using wireless and vista, I will give all of the above ago tonight. Thanks for all your help. I did try setting my rates to 30000, 40, 40 and my connection went really smooth, maybe I was just playing on a better server than before. Why is it not a good idea to have these lower?

 

[Slinkie]

I've been getting a lot of lag spikes myself recently i blame Virgin Media

I'm on virgin media, maybe I'm stuck with this, I'll have a go at some of these settings, thanks