So you have a lot of lag with the normal version of CS too? Are you playing on local servers, or distant servers? One thing I can suggest is that you try a LAN game and see if the ping is better, as that way we can determine whether or not it is a problem with your settings, or with the game itself.

One thing I should mention in that both CS:S and HL:S are very unpolished games, and suffer from a large number of problems. Some people will tell you that they are no better than beta releases, however I consider them alpha releases .

Check the ping repeatedly on steam before going on, i had a problem with it taking about 96% of my bandwidth idling, making most games unplayable.
It settled down once i got a B-Width limiter and gave it a good punisment.
Never played up since, it learned its lesson

Psst..at dude above me gotta an addon for windows taks manager? like one that can stop exes from running...ones that i choose
adaware doesnt get some

As far as i know aravis, none exists. Apart from the Proccess plocer in Sybot S&D (but its a little restricted). And group policy on a windows server 2003 domain. Apart from that, i cant really help

Any firewalls running?

Damn! *Mental note: Remember to ask about firewalls!* *Thwacks self*

Edited by - esquilax on 11/25/2004 1:20:13 AM

Your firewall won't have an effect on ping times. It's more likely to be a hop between you and the server in question that is pining badly or worse giving packetloss.

So get an IP tracer and run a ping trace to the server while you do absolutely nothing online via your pc or anyone else on your lan for that matter. So stop all auto updating virus scanners/windows updates etc and then run something like http://winmtr.sourceforge.net/ but best to set it to scan every 5 seconds so you don't piss off the server admin and get your IP blocked.

Once you have run a trace for at least 10 minutes you will easily see if there is a routing problem, then can find out if its your ISP's routing or other. If it's your ISP then they can help, if it's not theres then you complain to who ever owns the router that is pining badly.

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