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    Strange Lag in CS:S

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by darthvader1432, Apr 11, 2009.

  1. darthvader1432

    darthvader1432 - Audiophile -

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    Ok about every 30 seconds I have this weird lag that lasts for about 2 seconds and it always ends up getting me killed.

    I recently formated my hard drive and reinstalled vista

    It seems like before I reinstalled vista The game worked perfectly but now after I did that it has lag

    please help me
     
    darthvader1432, Apr 11, 2009
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    darthvader1432 - Audiophile -

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    pls somebody i really would like to play this game
     
    darthvader1432, Apr 12, 2009
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  3. MGS2392

    MGS2392 NAND Cat!

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    Perhaps you need to set your rates? Ask around on your CS server what your rates should be. Open up the console (using ~, must be enabled in the keyboard section of options) and type it in (for example, rate 30000, cl_updaterate 100, cl_cmdrate 100).
     
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  4. Theros123

    Theros123 Web Designer & Developer

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    Could be your network of network card dropping in and out. I had this happening to me before on my desktop because of bad drivers. I have a MSI wireless card in there, so I played around with different drivers until I found one that didn't drop signal at all.
     
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    Jasp Notebook Evangelist

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    Hmmzz, you playing on wireless or lan? also are you running vista or XP and do you get the problem in any other games.

    You can run a simple check on you connection by running the command ping router ip /t from the command prompt

    in my case ping 192.168.1.1 /t and look for a high ping or timeout on a regular interval.

    If you are running vista and wireless it could be vista searching for new wireless networks every minute, as this causes it to drop the connection for a split second, all my games played fine with the expection of battlefield 2142 were my character would do a little dance every minute lol.
     
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    redrazor11 Formerly waterwizard11

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    If you're using wireless, try connecting, and then disable "Windows Zero wireless service" in the Services group. This usuall runs in the background and studers you're connection. You can always enable it manually when you need to connect :)
     
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    GamingACU Notebook Deity

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    I used to have this exact same problem a couple years ago. I was running a decently build comp (way more than enough for CSS) and had a good cable internet connection. However, I was using a cheap wireless adapter and a cheap wireless router. I found that if I plugged straight into the cable the lag would go away, but if I ran off wireless I'd get a 2-3 second lag spike every few minutes.

    My suggestion: upgrade your wireless card, or don't go wireless.
     
    GamingACU, Apr 12, 2009
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