Ok so I tried pinging (windows command ping) while TF2 was running, and I got this:

Reply from 173.194.219.103: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=106
Reply from 173.194.219.103: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=106
Reply from 173.194.219.103: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=106
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Reply from 173.194.219.103: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=106
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Reply from 173.194.219.103: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=106
Reply from 173.194.219.103: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=106
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omfg there's a word limit? Anyway at the lowest settings possible I consistently got ~120fps across the board with updaterate and cmdrate at 33, and the choke issue still occurred. I'm getting a strong feeling that it's either the NIC or my internet.

I am documenting leaked launch options, because there may be some launch ops that could be useful. Let me know if I got a launch option's documentation wrong!

List Link.

Repo link.

Voicemenu Generator (VMG) is a generator for emulated voicemenus. By emulated voicemenus, I mean emulating voicemenus through scripting and captions. "But couldn't you just change voicecommands.txt?" you ask, but you see, voicecommands.txt is not whitelisted in any sv_pure level higher than -1, so you can only remove entries. Even if they were in all sv_pure levels, voicecommands.txt is quite limiting, as you can't make entries run commands, can only use three voicemenus, forced to take a long time on unnecessary features, and even worse…you can't format the menu labels!

The alternative of course is to make emulate a voicemenu with scripting and captions. See you can bind a key to a command, but you can also bind a key to rebind other keys to rebind other keys to commands (this is the concept of a page). You can display what the binds do through captions, which also This is the concept of an emulated voicemenu. They are much less limited as you can format the menu labels, run any command through any entry, insert voicemenus into voicemenus to categorize binds (aka pages).

However, it takes a while to create an emulated voicemenu. You have to test it over and over, make more binds and . This is why I created the VMG: To reduce wasted time on making an emulated voicemenu.

"Why make an emulated voicemenu?" Well you could shift the binds that don't need direct input off your keyboard, to an external input system that doesn't cost money or isn't clunky to use, like an external keyboard. You could put chat binds, useful commands like load_itempreset and eureka_teleport into emulated voicemenus. That way you can use your keys for stuff that actually needs to have direct input.

(Yes the code may be bad, but it gets the job done.)

Yeah. Even if I did find a job I liked, I'm still in highschool, so trying to focus on both would be hell. For now I'll focus on school (as in getting just enough to have a buffer from the bare minimum needed to pass to get into a high school job, not as in focus on getting all As because that is not happening ever), but after I graduate I'll immediately focus on getting a labored-based job.

I dealt with this dilemma a while back, and it still keeps coming back, but in a much weaker state than the previous.

I'd like to know more about this actually.

Ah ok. I was planning on replacing the list that could be junk with the list of launch options from the 2020 code leak of TF2. (NOT the documented list!)

Can't change the TDP from the BIOS. I would start working for a new PC…If teenage jobs didn't suck ass!

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU
GPU: Integrated Graphics…

Yeah it sucks.

Ah ok. I was unsure, but I'll stop defragging.

It's one year old. (Yes, this is an intel laptop…) It's not overclocked.

As said from Setsul, the only thing that may be causing the choke is probably because of my FPS. I usually get ~60fps in a not maxed out server, and ~100fps when no one is around and I am in a tight room. I have no idea how else to optimize TF2 though…

I did change the updaterate and cmdrate to both 33. Looks like I'll need to increase my FPS even further. Any tips to do so? I already:

• Have the No Hats Mod. (I'll always have this regardless of if I need FPS, because TF2 cosmetics ruin the game.)
  
• Excluded steam/appcache/stats from my Anti-Virus (Windows Security). Any more constantly written to files that I need to exclude?
  
• Am using DX81.
  
• Defragged my SSD *multiple times*. (I know it's generally not necessary, but you never know with how much misinformation is online.)

My resolution is 1600x900. I can reduce it further up to 720p. After that it's diminishing returns and I hate resolutions lower than that. I haven't disabled the Steam Overlay, because I commonly check profiles through the scoreboard. (Set tf_scoreboard_mouse_mode to 1 or 2 if you want this feature.)

Also note that I forced the maximum processor usage to 88%, because I value longevity.

Yeah from what Setsul said in the post in Customization:

Yeah this seems to be an issue with the game itself, and not necessarily my configuration or hardware.

To add rotten cherries as well, it seems that the MTU size is hard coded as 1200 bytes. Why not just make a cvar for it so the user can use their optimized MTU size?

(EDIT) P.S Will you use the 2020 leak of TF2 as research in mastercomfig?

How expensive is your mouse? If it's not that expensive, I'd just replace your mouse in general. This issue sounds like an issue with the mouse itself.

updaterate 66: I still get packet choke sometimes even when I'm near no one, and my fps does drop, but not long enough to be measured. Also fps does seem to drop by ~20fps each time the choke occurs, but that could be from the net_graph itself.

updaterate 33: No packet choke or fps drops when no one is near me. fps still drops by ~20fps when it occurs though.

I don't know how to solve it either.

No FPS drops it seems. I only lose about ~10fps but that's probably coming from the net_graph's display.

Also when I set my updaterate and cmdrate to 33, now my game doesn't choke up often on packet sizes 1260-~1900. It only chokes up at packet sizes ~3000-~6000 bytes.

EDIT: When I'm near no one I usually get ~100fps.

My choke goes as high as 25. Images of net_graph.