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So, basically, I’ve been playing on my laptop which is a decent Core i7 machine for more than 5 months now and haven’t experienced many troubles since.

Except recently (about a month ago) I started having constant in-game freezes (about twice in one game, 2-3 seconds each), which can very often mess up my game significantly.

I wondered if that was my processor’s high temperature that was the cause, but it rarely goes up higher than 72-73C.

Anyways try opening the power options in the control panel, change the plan settings, change advanced power settings and lower the maximum processor state from 100% to 99%.

Quoted from Carlos Kaiser

Are you sure that your internet isn’t the problem?

My lerp is always orange in net_graph, is that what you mean?

Quoted from Carlos Kaiser

Anyways try opening the power options in the control panel, change the plan settings, change advanced power settings and lower the maximum processor state from 100% to 99%.

Done. But how exactly will it help?

Quoted from Xearo

Just out of curiosity, what does net_graph 3 look like when it freezes for you? I had this on my old laptop and fixed it, so might be able to help.

I will try to make a screenshot of it when it freezes tonight.

Laptops have graphics cards too, which depending on cooling can overheat more than cpu’s when playing games. If anything then cpu usage is rather low for TF2 so 70ish for cpu sounds a bit high. Check gpu temp and if its a problem then cap fps to hz+1 * x. Say 61,121,181 etc… Imo laptop screens are bad enough to cap fps at 121, but thats just suggestion, so you can experiment if you want.

Quoted from kalhó

Xearo how did you fix it on your old laptop?

I used a program called CrystalDiskInfo to turn off my HDD’s Advanced Power Management. Can’t remember where I found the advice, but it fixed my problem 100%.

http://sourceforge.jp/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/59798/CrystalDiskInfo6_1_8-en.exe/?use_mirror=jaist

Function -> Advanced Feature -> AAM/APM Control -> Disable APM

It’s not permanent – you need to turn it off every time you start up your PC – but I think there is probably a way to turn it off permanently if you mess with some registries. That’s beyond me, though.

EDIT:
Not all HDDs have the APM feature.

Also, apparently you can use CrystalDiskInfo to disable it permanently:
http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Laptop-HDD-Laptop-SSHD-Momentus/Small-How-to-Disable-AAM-APM-permanently-with-CristalDiskInfo/m-p/132218

Did what you said, Xacher. Haven’t freezed once yesterday. Hope it stays this way :D

On the other hand, what should I with my interp? I tried changing the value but it doesn’t seem to help.

Here’s my internet settings:

cl_cmdrate 66
cl_interp_ratio 1
cl_interp 0.015
cl_lagcompensation 1
cl_pred_optimize 2
cl_smooth 0
cl_smoothtime 0.01
cl_updaterate 66
rate 60000

I am bumping this thread because I started having the same problem on my laptop.
After Windows 10 reinstall I have like 5-6 freezes for 3-4 seconds per match, which causes me death and I have stop/start recording demo again because I have invisible players.
Any ideas?

Quoted from kKaltUu

What kind of freezes? connection issues or actual hiccups related to the graphics card or disk?

hiccups related to gpu, memory or disk. I’m not sure, I am running on Fullscreen (for more fps) and quickly check where’s the real problem