Without the video I cant be sure, but it sounds like you need to change the death animations to 1 frame.
These are the stock characters death animations
anim11 = 0,19
anim14 = 40,59
anim17 = 120,139
anim20 = 80,99
anim61 = 0,19
anim64 = 40,59
anim67 = 120,139
anim70 = 80,99
This is how they should look for better ragdoll.
anim11 = 0,1
anim14 = 40,41
anim17 = 120,121
anim20 = 80,81
anim61 = 0,1
anim64 = 40,41
anim67 = 120,121
anim70 = 80,81
For characters with different animations than the stock ones, just find out which are the death animations, and do the same thing by changing them to 1 frame.
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