10-16-2007, 06:11 AM
It definitely looks like Windows is doing something sneakily in the background. Try increasing the process priority of srcds and making sure you have all other background processes closed. Run a netstat to see what's running and listening for incoming connections. Also if you are feeling up to it, you could try running a traffic sniffer like wireshark to see if anything else is happening periodically (filter out the srcds ports or else you'll be spammed to oblivion with packets 
). There could potentially hundreds of root causes of this, but it boils down to either something clogging the processor or your bandwidth. Given that you've already pinged it and received a decent response time though, it's probably the former 
). There could potentially hundreds of root causes of this, but it boils down to either something clogging the processor or your bandwidth. Given that you've already pinged it and received a decent response time though, it's probably the former