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hey guys,

since a week or so I installed win7 x64 with up-to-date drivers.
clean steam install etc.

my ping is fine, and I don’t have stuff running in the background.
i got this weird lag but it’s not caused by network issues.

anyone else experienced this? im thinking to go back to xp :/

cheers
digi

try to monitor cpu activity: some win7 services may cause extreme cpu activity and should be shut down.

atm, my cpu activity whenever I do anything stupid (moving cursos or a selecting any window and moving it around in circles) is still higher than normal, but in game everything performs just fine

I’m still using the beta, but I’ve found that one program in particular gives me that ‘weird lag’ you speak off and that’s ‘wmpnetwork.exe’. You can terminate it by right clicking it and selecting ‘End Process Tree’, but it keeps starting up again. Keep doing it a few times (I think 3 times) and then it should stop for good until next reboot.
That or you can uninstall Windows Media Player and that should remove it. Hope this helps.

I’ve been using w7 x64 ultimate for about a month now and didnt notive any lag problems. I play full screen, so you might want to chenck out that windowed problem. Also, I uninstalled WMP and IE if that helps…

i’m using win7 x86 not x64 so i really don’t know how to help you.
Win7 is just working fine with tf2 and steam in general.
It’s not a os problem

vista>win7 yawn

go back to xp, not worth it unless u want dx10/11 eyecandy

What are you talking about? XP is eyecandy. FFS. Just go back to using Windows 3.1 and save yourself the trouble.

Windows XP is an 8 year old OS. Seriously, it is time to mooove ooon. Win7 is a solid stable now, and its much quicker than vista.

vista>win7 yawn

false

Yes, I had it. And it forced me to quit and go back to windows XP as it completely ruined by ability to aim at stuff.

The only reason I found is that there’s acceleration, and ,since the famous “cplmousefix” isn’t updated to windows 7 yet, There’s no real way to fix that. I’m still going to follow this topic though… I’m sure windows 7 is better, shame it’s unplayable for me.

I used the cplmousefix for Windows7, but I can’t tell if I sense the difference. I read in other ETF2L topics that the mousefix works on Win7? Could this cause our problem then, Pshyche?

I will look into the wmp service, but as far as I can see every wmp service is disabled so far…

It’s a bit weird to discribe the ‘lag’ but like psyche said it toally fucks your aim up because you are just too late. Other players seem to move normal. Also when you get healed by the med the health bar is not going smooth :d

tnx for all the input so far guys, appreciate it.

cheers
dig

p.s. using a cfg or not doesn’t make any difference