TF2 lag/choke/whatever

[iQue]

Hi guys

Well lately my copy of TF2 has been acting up and I'm having really weird lag or choke issues. My FPS stays the same as it has always done, but everything just lags apart and players are teleporting all over the place, kill messages come 5 seconds after I actually made the kill etc. It's not too bad when there are only friendlies in sight but as soon as I get close to an enemy hell breaks out again... lol. My ping doesn't seem to affect it, the lag is just as bad if I'm on an european server and a north american. If I start an empty local server there is zero lag so it's not related to some odd graphics setting or something.

All of my other games run smoothly, without any lag or hit detection issues (Crysis Wars, CSS, HL2DM, BF2, 2142, CoD4 etc). It's only in TF2 it happens and that's the really odd part. I haven't installed anything lately and the only thing I've did that might have had an effect was that I moved my computer to another room, but I'm still using the same cable and router. The download/upload speeds are the same... I just don't get it.

I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about how to fix this, maybe some sort of console command that has gotten f'ed up. I'm open for anything.

<< Specs thataway

Cheers

EDIT: Have been experimenting a little and it seems to have gotten better now but far from perfect. I'll try to reinstall the game overnight, but anyone feel free to give me advise on what could fix it.

EDIT2: Ok lol it's not any better. I have been playing on the lowest graphics settings with no to very little effect - really weird playing in 200 FPS but it still feels like I'm on my old ATI Radeon 9500 In CSS the hit detection is perfect and zero lag, I just don't get this.

EDIT3: Appearantly TF2 wants to be nice and has worked great for me the last few hours. I'll see what happens tomorrow... sheesh

[Trevortt]

Re: TF2 lag/choke/whatever

Try reinstalling the game?

[Xylaquin]

Re: TF2 lag/choke/whatever

just typical internet really.. some days my ping goes above 100 when playing on server A, and most times it'll be as low as 45.

[Sniper1432]

Re: TF2 lag/choke/whatever

I'm not sure what kind of drivers your mobo uses, but for me, I had to uninstall the nvidia network access manager because it would cause ridiculous lag in TF2+CSS.

[iQue]

Re: TF2 lag/choke/whatever

For some reason it fixed itself. I did everything I could think of, restarting my router and whatnot, redownloaded the game twice with no effect... even deleted the TF folder in the steam directory (even though you delete the game through steam it leaves some settings files left)

It appears to have fixed itself though. Haven't had any problems for a day now, but I still can't figure out why because all my other games worked fine.

Thanks for the replies guys, I'll get back to you if it screws up really bad again.