Okay — A few questions and then a few suggestions on this issue:
Questions:
1. What kind of video card do you have?
2. What speed processor?
3. How much memory?
Suggestions:
1. Go update your video drivers.
2. Go update your motherboard drivers. (This is important!!!)
3. Go update windows.
4. Set your speed settings in steam to what your internet really is.
5. Set your rates up correctly. (There is another thread in this discussion forum on how to do that.)
6. Make sure that you have all the patches for your games in place.
7. Turn off unneeded programs while gaming. These use cpu and ram to run. This takes away from your game.
Lemme know. 