What is a tick?
I have heard many instances of tick being used. For example, people will say that demos are recorded in 16 tick, that servers run in 64 tick, but really good servers will run in 128 ticks.
I don't exactly understand what's a tick exactly. Why would having higher powers of 2 any better? I have seen a lot of threads about asking Valve to add higher tick servers, but what does a higher "tick" get you?
What is a tick?
I have heard many instances of tick being used. For example, people will say that demos are recorded in 16 tick, that servers run in 64 tick, but really good servers will run in 128 ticks.
I don't exactly understand what's a tick exactly. Why would having higher powers of 2 any better? I have seen a lot of threads about asking Valve to add higher tick servers, but what does a higher "tick" get you?