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Posted by Sudasana on Tue May 31st at 3:59pm 2005

For the past couple of days my HM2DM has been acting strangely. Whether I'm hosting a game or playing on another server, I get horrible lag where it used to be ok. This even when I'm hosting a test game with just myself as a client. The single player game runs fine, which leads me to think it's a network problem.

What will happen is that really bad lag freeze, where after you come back all your weapon icons appear on the right, and sometimes you can hear the 'drowning sound'. This will happen randomly. Other than these freezes network speed is good, but this freezing makes online play impossible.

Any suggestions? I've scanned for virii and skyware, updated video drivers. No big changes to the system in the past couple of days.

Thanks;

sudasana




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Posted by Sudasana on Tue May 31st at 4:19pm 2005

Update: Disabled Zonealarm and the lag went away. Going to keep trying this to see if it's the problem. Wierd though, never had a problem with it before this week.




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Posted by Leperous on Tue May 31st at 4:28pm 2005

I get that occasionally as well, especially offline, so thanks for the (possible) solution <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by warlord on Tue May 31st at 4:41pm 2005

i too get that but i dont have zonealarm


the only problem with steam updating things every week is it doesent give the developers an incentive to playtest thier work, so we do it for them



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Posted by Sudasana on Thu Jun 2nd at 2:28am 2005

Shutting down zonealarm has completely fixed the problem, so if you encounter similar troubles and use zonealarm, you may want to try disabling it.





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