Sudden Slow Downs in Source Games

lol..gonna need a lil more info from ya dude...

whats your rig? what u done lately? updated drivers or anythin?

hah my computer is....

a HP Pavilion a1654n

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz

1.87 GHz Performance Rated at 4.90 GHz

NVIDIA GeForce 7500 LE

2GB of RAM

150 GB of storage? haha

oh and its an XP
Umm like when ever I play css it tell me to download the latest version of my graphics driver...But I know I installed the lastest one because I downloaded it 1000 times!!! but lets say i click on Half life 2 .. it doesn't even tell me I have a outdated driver

You might try clearing out your Program Files\Steam\appcache folder. (Quit Steam first)

You can also delete the counter-strike source folder in Program Files\Steam\steamapps\YourLoginUsername.

When you start steam, and re-run css, it will recreate those files. Just don't delete the GCF file, since that's the actual game in its compressed format. (However, if you do, you will be able to re-download it.)

After that, I would defrag the hard drive.

Just a couple ideas.

You might try clearing out your Program Files\Steam\appcache folder. (Quit Steam first)

You can also delete the counter-strike source folder in Program Files\Steam\steamapps\YourLoginUsername.

When you start steam, and re-run css, it will recreate those files. Just don't delete the GCF file, since that's the actual game in its compressed format. (However, if you do, you will be able to re-download it.)

After that, I would defrag the hard drive.

Just a couple ideas.

Stinger78

those are good ideas. a quicker way than deleting the whole CS:S folder is while in steam, right click cs:s and go to properties and Verify Game CacheIntegrity, somethin like that.

not much else i can think to add, ur setup is more than ok to run the games at highly playable frame rates. somethings clogging ur system. u running anything in the background, fraps maybe?

Is the hard drive (the one with your swap file) mostly full and/or really fragmented?

Is your video card getting really really hot? For a while I had a 7950GT that kept overheating and, according to the nvidia utility, "needed to be reset". resetting was pretty infrequent, but each time would result in a 5 to 10 second hanging of the game.

Does it happen in any other games, or source games alone?

Also, what do you mean by "1.87 GHz Performance Rated at 4.90 GHz"? That sounds like something a salesman would say. :D

You might try clearing out your Program Files\Steam\appcache folder. (Quit Steam first)

You can also delete the counter-strike source folder in Program Files\Steam\steamapps\YourLoginUsername.

When you start steam, and re-run css, it will recreate those files. Just don't delete the GCF file, since that's the actual game in its compressed format. (However, if you do, you will be able to re-download it.)

After that, I would defrag the hard drive.

Just a couple ideas.

Stinger78

Thanks for the replys.

Um I deleted the css folders and stuff and it still continues to do those slow downs. I even totally delted the valve folder and sitll had problems... but yea I have norton and **** in the backgorund but I never had anyproblems .. but yeah tonight I'm gonna defragment my harddrive... hopefully that helps!! Thanks guys!

Is the hard drive (the one with your swap file) mostly full and/or really fragmented?

Is your video card getting really really hot? For a while I had a 7950GT that kept overheating and, according to the nvidia utility, "needed to be reset". resetting was pretty infrequent, but each time would result in a 5 to 10 second hanging of the game.

Does it happen in any other games, or source games alone?

Also, what do you mean by "1.87 GHz Performance Rated at 4.90 GHz"? That sounds like something a salesman would say. :D

jodamn

Umm No I have tons of Memory left but I haven't defraged it yet.. so I'm gonna do that

How can you tell how hot it is? But I doubt thats the problem

This ONLY happens with source games!!! I play the SIMS 2 and stuff and get NONE of those problems