wh1te
TD Member
Over the past couple of months, I've encountered an issue which I think is hardware related. At random times while playing CS:S I get a really fast spike of lag, there is no FPS or latency change prior or after to the freeze ups. I've noticed it happens when one of the following happens:
-someone else sprays their logo
-a flash goes off
-a smoke goes off
-someone flickers their flashlight
-the bomb goes off
-someone appears quickly in front of me (around the corner, or drops down)
This is really annoying and a nuisance, especially in the past tournament and while pubbing. I get a constant 80-200 FPS while playing, even smoke, heavy gunfire, and full servers. My ping fluctuates from 5-25 like normal, and I rarely d/c.
The half second-1 second spikes are random, not all the above mentioned causes make me get the lag or I might 2 in a row, it's weird.
The same effect happens when someone people hit F5 for screenshots or Print Screen, you get that little delay to capture the screen... almost the exact same.
I run an ATI Radeon 5850 graphics card with up to date drivers and direct X, 4 GB of dual ram, Intel core2 Duo 8500, and have a WD 7200 rpm HDD (separate harddrive as windows)
I run CS:S at 1920x1080, medium/high graphics and full screen mode on a widescreen monitor.
Another thing I noticed when the spike happens, it's like my game alt-tabs, I see my mouse cursor for the half second, then game returns to normal. Like another program loaded or an action was done off game.
I never had this issue previously with an Nvidia card and old build. I plan on formatting soon anyways, but any tips or suggestions are appreciated :) Thanks
-someone else sprays their logo
-a flash goes off
-a smoke goes off
-someone flickers their flashlight
-the bomb goes off
-someone appears quickly in front of me (around the corner, or drops down)
This is really annoying and a nuisance, especially in the past tournament and while pubbing. I get a constant 80-200 FPS while playing, even smoke, heavy gunfire, and full servers. My ping fluctuates from 5-25 like normal, and I rarely d/c.
The half second-1 second spikes are random, not all the above mentioned causes make me get the lag or I might 2 in a row, it's weird.
The same effect happens when someone people hit F5 for screenshots or Print Screen, you get that little delay to capture the screen... almost the exact same.
I run an ATI Radeon 5850 graphics card with up to date drivers and direct X, 4 GB of dual ram, Intel core2 Duo 8500, and have a WD 7200 rpm HDD (separate harddrive as windows)
I run CS:S at 1920x1080, medium/high graphics and full screen mode on a widescreen monitor.
Another thing I noticed when the spike happens, it's like my game alt-tabs, I see my mouse cursor for the half second, then game returns to normal. Like another program loaded or an action was done off game.
I never had this issue previously with an Nvidia card and old build. I plan on formatting soon anyways, but any tips or suggestions are appreciated :) Thanks
