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This happens to me on servers that have been on the same map for a long time. The rocket animation skips frames or something and makes it 'pop' at the end of the anim. It also manifests with slower "ring graphics" on jump pads. At the extreme end the ring graphics stop.

Going to another map, or reloading the current one fixes it.

One way to test if this is what's happening for you is if this happens practice mode. If it doesn't it's probably the same phenomena.

Yup, im getting the exact same phenomena. Sounds logical now that i think about it, as the server i usually plays on runs Theatre almost exclusively at the moment.

My knowledge about the console and graphic processing is quite limited, do you know if there are any console commands that could possibly fix this? Such as client side predicted explosions?

Thanks for your help anyway <3.

The only cvar that effects the explosion animation is r_vertexlight, when set to 1 the explosion animation has a lot fewer frames than with vertexlight 0.

It probably won't be enough to get rid of the popping effect though and for me personally I like vertexlight and it wouldn't be worth the switch to me anyhow.

The problem actually used to be a lot worse in that servers that had been up for a while would get progressively worse until jump pad animations just stopped completely, grenade trajectories were shown in what appeared to be ~10 fps and rockets looked dreadful. Changing the map had no effect.

I'm one of the people that first bug reported this, and their solution was to make it so that restarting the map (as in you see the map logo and the models loading etc.) also restarted whatever was needed to "freshen" up the server again.

Unfortunately this solution doesn't work when servers have been running the same map for long periods of time. Sampler servers are the most susceptible since they are confined to a single map and do not get restarted.

Also sometimes I find myself on such a server and so I want to vote the same map again to restart it and people think I'm crazy :-P

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If that fixes it, wouldn't a /vid_restart fix it too?

No, because it's the server sending "timestamps" with messages. They don't reset when client restarts. They do reset when the server loads a map.

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I had this problem a while ago when I grabbed pavels cfg, turned out the command responsible for this is cg_projectilenudge.

I set "cg_projectilenudge 0" and everything was normal again.