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rodox · 11-22-2009, 08:45 AM

Being sick of not being able to watch FF matches via SourceTV, me and CUJO were fed up. We embarked on a quest tonight to find what exactly is wrong with SourceTV in FF... and we have found it.

After much testing we narrowed it down to the command tv_maxrate. Normally this cvar is default to 5000, but it's apparently not enough for Fortress Forever. Setting tv_maxrate to 0 (Unlimited) will eliminate any choppiness in SourceTV now. Our final test was doing just this and watching a 4v4 pickup and the results were amazing, the pickup was full of smooth game play like it is supposed to be.

In summary tv_maxrate must be set to 0. I'm sure you could make it a large number like 30000 but I have only tested 0.

Note that if you don't change this via server config, you must use rcon tv_maxrate , because tv_maxrate without rcon just changes your own listenserver sourcetv maxrate

Thanks to CUJO for staying up and helping me test!

11-22-2009, 08:45 AM	#1
rodox dunkaroos Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Michigan Class/Position: Railgun Posts Rated Helpful 2 Times	Fix for choppy SourceTV Being sick of not being able to watch FF matches via SourceTV, me and CUJO were fed up. We embarked on a quest tonight to find what exactly is wrong with SourceTV in FF... and we have found it. After much testing we narrowed it down to the command tv_maxrate. Normally this cvar is default to 5000, but it's apparently not enough for Fortress Forever. Setting tv_maxrate to 0 (Unlimited) will eliminate any choppiness in SourceTV now. Our final test was doing just this and watching a 4v4 pickup and the results were amazing, the pickup was full of smooth game play like it is supposed to be. In summary tv_maxrate must be set to 0. I'm sure you could make it a large number like 30000 but I have only tested 0. Note that if you don't change this via server config, you must use rcon tv_maxrate , because tv_maxrate without rcon just changes your own listenserver sourcetv maxrate Thanks to CUJO for staying up and helping me test! Last edited by rodox; 11-22-2009 at 08:47 AM.