Has anyone else been lagging ingame recently?

[Armadillo of Doom]

I'm trying to figure out if it's my new motherboard, or just a random TF2 hiccup. I get the briefest of pauses where everything just stops. And a few seconds later, I have magically shifted positions. It has become very annoying, and I suspect it's my new motherboard giving me grief Just b/c it does Crossfire instead of Sli doesn't mean I can't use my 9800gt, right?

 

[Spike]

What do you mean by lagging? Low FPS rate or Internet related issue?

 

[StoneFrog]

I've been getting a fair amount of stutterbugs and "rubberbanding" (mostly of other scouts) as of late, but I attribute it to my CPU which I'm almost certain is starting to fall apart. Latency? Nope, I see no difference.

 

[The Political Gamer]

No we all get problems like that. I shell out $1,500 for my rig and I get it, sli, quad. Anyway, it is a problem with TF2 NOT your computer.

 

[Don]

Yes, it happens to me every now and then, Tf2 freezes for over 2 seconds then, I get a backstab or an arrow in the head. I guess crtashes are not at the same time for every player playing... That or I fall in the death pit in Cashworks!

 

[TheBladeRoden]

not me

 

[Sebhael]

Crossfire enabled boards doesn't mean you can't use Nvidia cards, just means you can't use two+ of them. In order to run multiple cards you'd have to use ATi products.

As for the lagging, I can't really tell you. I just installed Windows 7 and played for a bit like that, it was hitching quite badly for me, but I attributed the performance to the fact that I'm using an unstable release candidate for a operating system .

 

[Rootbeerz]

Yes, but it'll also spam in console that the server has lost connection and achievements are halted.

 

[grazr]

I have noticed this, also. Although the server i play on often disconnects from steam.

 

[Armadillo of Doom]

Glad to know it's not just me, lol. This only started happening recently. Specifically, around the time I installed my new board. At first I thought it was a function of the big difference in my hdd speeds. Steam is installed on my 7-year old ata drive, while the OS is on my brand new 7200rpm sata. But I had that setup on my old motherboard as well. So I put Steam on the main drive, but it hasn't helped. My brother has had a similar problem for ages now, and attributes it to our wireless cards. I'm using a little usb antennae thing, as opposed to a full pci wireless card. Suck