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Allright .. been having that problem since a little while now but I never really bothered to fix it

Whenever I start a HL server or join others (any mod), the game acts as if I had a ping of like <10.000 but my actual ping and fps are perfectly fine
The only thing that does not lag is the mouse .... basically my whole computer "lags".
I can't even alt+tab out of the game since that key combo is also "lagged"
The only thing that works is ctrl+alt+del

Its as if my computer is doing something else in the background that takes up like 99% cpu while playing HL but there is nothing else running ...

Wanted to make a thread about this on the steampowered forums but its not letting me post there at all for some reason (just registered .. probably have to wait 24hours or some crap -_-)

Any ideas what could cause this?
 
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you might expirientes the lag because of spyware or other addwers in your pc, or maybe your antivirus just wont quit updating
 
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hmm .. I guess I'll do a spyware scan now.
 
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no spyware found, no virus ...
any other ideas?
I got all the latest drivers for my hardware :s

Actually I'll try to downgrade to an older gpu driver later ... its not like my 6600GT benefits from the very latest ones anyway -.-
 
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did you try switching from direct3d to opengl or viceversa?
 
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I'm on open gl since years and I refuse to go back to d3d
I'll try it out to see if it works though ^^

xp btw.
 
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I'm on open gl since years and I refuse to go back to d3d
I'll try it out to see if it works though ^^

xp btw.
you could try going in to task maniger and ending programs you dont recognise this helped me out a lot
 
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I'm on an overclocked athlon64 3000 with a gig ram and a 6600GT ... It normally has more then enough power for crappy old HL. And there is nothing else taking up cpu usage in the background ... that was the first thing I checked.
 
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When did this start? Do you remember installing anything new before this started happening?
 
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it started a few weeks ago when we had a playtest session with the beta testers...
Its been a while since I used HL before that though so I don't really have any suspects software wise.
My only idea right now is to downgrade my graphic card drivers
 
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Using some older drivers now. Works like a charm again :)
 

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