Solved: Search for servers in steam games=laggy

Hi there

Right now I have 4 games from steam (valve) that I play online (hl2 deatmatch, counter-strike source, garry's mod and cs 1.6).

The thing is that, when I search for servers in any of the games; my computer almost dies.
Everything just freezes and if I try to for example open steam in-game it takes about 5-10 sec
The game freezes as well.

In game I never get under 60fps, everything maxed out @ 1680x1050 so I don't believe that it's something with my computers hardware.

My broadband is 8mb, I don't know of any viruses and I use windows defender as protection.

Anyone? :O

Much appreciated

 

System specs would help?

 

just quick then:

Intel quad Q6600 2.4ghz
BFG 8800GTX OC2
4gb ram (I can use 2.75 of them in xp, which I use for dx9 games)


So I'd not say it's hardware related

 

Just ran gmod for the first time, and jeeez...

The first thing that happened was that everything just frezed. If I placed the pointer at one of the menu text's it highlighted after about 5secs and a sound started to loop.

I managed to start the game - not even 1fps

I expected more from this computer......

 

Solved it =)

I didn't know that nvidia had a firewall embedded in their "drivers", but that was the case.

Seems like that one and windows defender had a small fight, and nvidia "loosed" and crashed.

I found it using 450mb RAM.

Well, thanks for asking what speccs I have...