CSS losing connection?

[metallicfallout]

Hey,

I just bought CS Source and I was having trouble with something.

Whenever I start playing after a minute or two everything stops, my character can't move and nobody around me is moving. I can move my mouse and look around, but actually trying to run anywhere is not possible. As everything stops, the timer is still going. I bring up the menu that shows all the pings and shows the same thing that it would have shown before the freeze.

Nothing will happen, I just stay in that one spot for a large amount of time until I disconnect from the server manually. This happens again when I join another server. I don't seem to get any type of error message.

Seeing how I can still move my character's head I would think that this should not be a graphics problem, but more like a connection problem?

I do happen to have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128 MB) and I suppose that these graphics cards are notorious for having problems with CSS from what I have seen. What I have done is downloaded a new driver, and turned off both VPU Recover and Fast Write. This still has not done anything for the situation.

Any ideas would be useful!

 

[metallicfallout]

Just to note: I have been doing some more reading, I have not tried doing a clean boot yet...

 

[Beerdude26]

I do happen to have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128 MB) and I suppose that these graphics cards are notorious for having problems with CSS from what I have seen.

I guess you haven't seen the nVidia problems then

Are you behind a firewall or a router (or both)?

 

[metallicfallout]

Yes, I have a Linksys Router, that has not seemed to have brought on problems like this before with any of my other games, but that is a valid point...

I have window's firewall turned off, however Norton Worm Protection is on.

I will turn that off and see if I then have any problems, if that is a problem is there any solution to keeping that going while I am on? (sorry for the lack of knowledge :| )

 

[metallicfallout]

Turning off norton worm protection didn't do anything, still ran into it.

 

[metallicfallout]

I thought to look in my console after one of these "crashes" and found this

Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 90/1
Received fragment out of order: 89/1

 

[Beerdude26]

Well, it seems that something is blocking the packets your computer tries to receive. You should try opening the ports required for Steam and its games on your router.
Here is a link to the required ports.