Game Loads very slow or freezes as I connect to a server..

[KillerXtreme]

This may or may not be directly related with FF, cause I've also seen this happen with other HL2 mods. So if you can help in general that would be great. Basically its as the Title says I will connect to a server and as it tries to get The Server Information it will freeze up there, sometimes it will go threw but not till after a while.. Now I've got a decent system so its gotta be something with steam.. Any ideas?

AMD Athlon64 3800+
ATi RadionX850 Pro
1gig Corsair (single stick)

[Smiling Cat]

I have had this happen to me in CSS and DODS. I found that after I had to manually reboot I ran a defragmentation analysis and I would find that .dll files in the mods had several fragments. Client.dll, gamui.dll, or what not would have 2-5 fragments. Steams ingame defrag did nothing to fix this, but after a defrag with diskeeper the problem was fixed.

I am not sure why it ever stopped doing it in the other games, but it is occurring repeatedly in FF.