ah yes thank you. pb_sleep 500 and pb_security 0 have helped out a bit. It's still there, but not quite as bad.

Thanks for the insight there creep. There is some comfort knowing that I'm not alone I suppose.

Check out the 8600 GT 256mb cards at newegg if you're on a budget. They're pretty good. I saw on that was 109.99 and comes with a $20 rebate too.

Ok update here; I ran a ra3 server on my own machine, and had my wife connect to it with her notebook while I played on the server (it was dedicated lan tho). We both got the chop. So, I went into the server .bat file and disabled PB "+set sv_punkbuster 0" (something like that). Try again ...

Couldn't have been anyone messing with my cfg. Nobody has access to this machine. g_synchronousclients says unknown command? I tried non-pb ffa servers. On one of them the chop was gone, but on the two others I tried it was there, alive and well. I think maybe it was the map I was on that caused the...

Ah, I wish that was it. This goes on after punkbuster has finished. The longer I play, the worse it gets. After an hour or so I need a reboot. I did remove the router from the equation and go from the cable modem directly to computer. Didn't help so I figure it isn't the router. It could very well b...

Just recently, q3 started doing this. Running completely smooth on Athlon 2800+, 2gb, nvidia 6600GT 128mb, 10k raptor hdd, etc. and then all of a sudden I get these nasty little freezes. When I first enter a server, it's not there, but slowly it starts, and the longer I play the worse it gets. I've ...