Thread: Game Pauses for a moment in online mode

I have a strange problem with the game.

When I play online, regardless of how good my ping is, the game will pause sporadically in places where everything just stops moving on the screen and then a couple seconds later things will start again but with everyone moved around. It's like I miss those couple of seconds where I"m not getting any information through.

It only happens online. I have tried disabling multi-core rendering. Tried doing things with my firewall, disabling and enabling, and forwarding ports. Nothing seems to work.

I'm running it on Windows 7 Beta, and everything was working fine up until a couple days ago. I'm at a loss.

PC Specs:

Windows 7 Beta
E8400 Core2Duo @4ghz
8gbs RAM
2x4850 Crossfire

Anybody help?

sounds like u have the same problem as me. and like me, u haven't gotten a response either. what rates are u using? rate, cl_updaterate, cl_cmdrate, sv_maxupdaterate, sv_maxcmdrate?

my rates are somewhere around rate 30000, cl_updaterate 100, cl_cmdrate 100, sv_maxupdaterate 100, sv_maxcmdrate 100, but i have also cut rate and the cl update and cmd rates in half, so 15000 50 50, and same problem then.

I FOUND A FIX!!!


Well, assuming you are connected to the internet via a wireless network. But your problem sounds exactly like mine, so try this out!

Vista wireless users - you may have a ping spike every 60 seconds! - Steam Users' Forums

^ This thread will explain in detail what the problem is.

Here's the fix:
WLAN Optimizer .NET

Click on "WLAN Optimizer .NET v0.10 Alpha" at the top of the page. Otherwise, search google for WLAN Optimizer.

I ran wlanoptimizer and it's FIXED, FUCKING FIXED! :rofl: :zombie09:

Originally Posted by Seann7656

Thank you kind sir! I just always assumed this problem was a random server lag that everyone witnessed at the same time. So glad there’s an actual fix. It seemed to happen at the most inconvenient times too...

this problem drove me absolutely batshit. i can't take credit, a friend on another forum clued me into this, but the least I could do was follow up with my post on here! this fixed my lag issue 100%. w00t!!