I'll try some of the suggestions you all prescribed and see what will help. I also did some more research and found that it may be this stuttering issue that many HL2 users have been getting.
I also defraged my files. May have helped a small bit, but not much.
Works good enough. Worked pretty well at the start, but now I don't know what went wrong. I have a theory it's some background programs causing the problem, but I don't know.
Alright, I've had Half-Life 2 and CS:S for about two months now. Recently, I've gotten some occasional lag that happens while I play both Half-Life 2 and CS:S. This didn't happen when I first uploaded the games on my laptop, but now it seems to be happening all the time.
I've looked up ways...