Well I think I may have found the problem. My harddrive is an IDE drive with 5200(5400?)RPMs and 2MB disk cache. It is pretty old, and I took it out of a craputer (compaq) so maybe it is dying? I think I'm just going to buy a new harddrive and ghost this harddrive to the other one.

I didn't see any difference in loading maps, models and sounds. I do remember I opened up the PK3 file once to extract some of the sounds. Could this be the cause?

I'll do one right now and post my results.

The thing is though, it didn't used to take this long to load character models (ingame and pregame), and maps and sounds at the beginning.

Ok I have a major problem. When I enter a game, loading a map, sounds, and player models takes a long time to load(which is approximately 30 seconds or more) and I know it has loaded faster than this (nearly instant). Also, when someone joins a game, my computer needs to load their model, so Quake 3...

Can anyone else help me? Should I go to a different forum?

I do have a Hamachi entry, but not a "pseudo-adapter". I do have UPnP off, could that be the problem? I recently used a program that turned off a few services to make my computer speed up, but one of those "unessential" services may be the problem. If you are "service-savvy&...

No. Everyone is on Hamachi. They can see the server listings perfectly, and join other games. I can't see server listings but I can join games (except for GTA2 because you can't join via. IP).

Heh. Sorry about the lack of details. Usually I provide too much and it is too cumbersome to read the post. I use no software firewall. I'm trying to connect to games using Hamachi. I CAN connect through Hamachi's IP, but I CAN'T see server listings. Example games: I can't see my friend's Quake 3 se...

Hi. Recently I haven't been able to view any LAN games or Local games on any game I own. I figured there has to be someone who has had this problem before me, and would have a few steps I could take to try to fix it, or narrow down the problem. Thanks.