L4D - game freezes

Turtles

Turtles

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When I play L4D every-so-often my game will freeze up for 5secs+ and it'll freeze my ventrilo as well.

I get decent FPS (constant 60+) and it happens on good servers where I have OK pings (50). I'm moving over to Virgin on Thursday from AOL (:p) so hopefully that'll make some difference. Could it be a port forwarding issue or something?

Happens in single-player as well! :confused:

E8400 - 3.0GHz
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2
8800GTS 512MB

I've got Zonealarm & AVG running in the background, but there's no scans or anything running. L4D Demo worked fine, just the full game that's freezing up.

Never experience anything like this in my other games... :confused:
 
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Turtles said:
I'm moving over to Virgin on Thursday from AOL (:p) so hopefully that'll make some difference.
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Ummmm... no. But moving from AOL is a good idea, but moving to Virgin is not so much, jumping from the frying pan into the fire, more... jumping from the fire into the frying pan, so may be a bit better for you, lol.

For the record, Virgin broadband is not the best, I have it, lol.
 
same problem here.

And my audio is on loop when it freezes.

quitre a few peeps having this problem but no solution yet...
 
Ok, turning off Multi-core rendering stopped the random freezes. However, it's dropped my FPS which I don't like :(

Going to see what else I can try. Someone of the Steam forums mentioned something about the new nVidia drivers causing problems with L4D. Might revert back to an older one.
 
I had this problem - every ten seconds the game froze up for five seconds, making it totally unplayable from the very first second. I put it in borderless windowed mode and it's working fine which, by chance, is also how i like to play my games, so I don't mind at all!

Voice software proving a pain in the bottom, however!
 
My mate had the same problem with his 8800 running the latest (180.48?) drivers, he rolled back to some earlier ones and said it is fine now. Think they where pretty old ones he rolled back to, 169.something, as he reckons he's had problems somewhere with every set since.
 
Having the same problem.
Running windowed and disabling 1 Core HELPS, but the issue is still rearing its head on occassion. Using an Ati 3870 and XP SP3, so it definitely isn't anything to do with nVidia drivers or Vista as many have claimed.
 
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