Connection Problem.

[TekBlade13]

Everytime i play CS, i always get this error, this is what i have tried to resolve it:
Use a diffrent cfg file - My friends runs smoothly, i tried his cfg, no go.

Update vid driver - i needed to do this anyway, but i updated it, negative.

Uninstall Steam - had to do this with another game anyway . installed it, see below.

Uninstall/reinstall CS - there is where it gets interesting, i dont have the connection problem anymore, but it will randomly freeze every couple seconds, i mean like, itll go for maybe 30 seconds, then stop for a minute, then go, then stop, no error though. Any solutions?

[Krovvy]

When starting steam? Or joining a server?

Maybe you have blocked the ports for steam/cs. If you have the XP SP2 firewall enabled, and have accidently blocked it, then thats the probelm.

[TekBlade13]

no i will NEVER get SP 2.....

Idk about the ports though, this just recently started to happen ion the past coulpe days, it only happens when im in CS, not in world of warcraft or ragnarok

[Master.America]

You always have problems with CS, don't you? Post your specs, it might help.

First of all, try different video drivers. Guru3d.com has some good ones. It might just be a bad driver installation or something. I remember this happened to me once--I can't remember exactly what the problem was, but I know I fixed it somehow.

Rename all your configs (including config.cfg) before you start CS.This'll load Counter-Strike with fresh new config files, so anything that was in a config file that might have been causing problems before should go away. If this works, find out what's causing the problem. If this doesn't work, change your config files back.

Also, try this: right-click Counter-Strike in the Games menu, click Properties, and open launch options. Add -heapsize XXX where XXX is half your RAM (so if you have 512MB RAM, you would put -heapsize 256 here). The heapsize is only 64 by default and this could help if you have a low amount of RAM.

If that doesn't help, try running CS without any background programs. As I have noticed, some programs (like adware or file sharing programs like Kazaa) can bog down your games, causing slow connection speeds or freezing like you mentioned. Click START, RUN and enter MSCONFIG and click the Startup tab. Click Disable All and then restart your computer. Run CS and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then there's a program that is causing problems. If it doesn't solve the problem, then you'll probably want to re-enable the startup items in msconfig. Oh, yeah--and you might want to run Adaware, too, so that you can scan for any of those little adware programs that are hard to get rid of.

I can think of tons more reasons CS would freeze like this, though. Try these things first.

[Krovvy]

Originally Posted by Master_America

First of all, try different video drivers. Guru3d.com has some good ones. It might just be a bad driver installation or something. I remember this happened to me once--I can't remember exactly what the problem was, but I know I fixed it somehow.

Rename all your configs (including config.cfg) before you start CS.This'll load Counter-Strike with fresh new config files, so anything that was in a config file that might have been causing problems before should go away. If this works, find out what's causing the problem. If this doesn't work, change your config files back.

Also, try this: right-click Counter-Strike in the Games menu, click Properties, and open launch options. Add -heapsize XXX where XXX is half your RAM (so if you have 512MB RAM, you would put -heapsize 256 here). The heapsize is only 64 by default and this could help if you have a low amount of RAM.

How does video card drivers and RAM have to do with a connection problem. He also said that hes tried different configs.

[LaRc]

all of a sudden when i play my ping is like 60 more then usual did something happen?

[Brandon]

I think steam is updating all of ther servers, the one i belong to got updated and now it updates now and then. my ping is up 40++ then normal :/

[TekBlade13]

thanks for making my topic, OFF topic =\ make your own thread for thsoe kinds of things.

But anywho, ive tried the new video drivers, no go, ive tried new configs (got the CAL config from gotfrag and that dident work), it mus tbe something, ill go try again right now.

[Brandon]

i was contirbuting to it saying my ping got high too, lol smart one, read then post... :loopy

[LaRc]

just chill i wanted to know y i was pinging a little higher then i do so f**kin chill geez

[Master.America]

If your ping gets higher, it's probably a server problem. If you look here, you can see that Steam has enough bandwidth for all of its users and its updates.

Try some of my other suggestions tekblade... I'm still not entirely sure what the problem is.