Hello,
I'm writing this thread, because I have some trouble playing competitive TF2, TF2 in general and CS:GO in general. Since 8 months I have been using Chris' High Fps Config (of course modified by me to fit my own PC settings and playstyle). But suddenly (around 14 April 2016) I started getting hige lag spikes. The first 5-10 minutes everything is fine, but after that every 6-10 seconds I experience a huge frp drop (from 60-80 to 10-23) and a hige ping increase (from 60-80 to 120-sometimes 260). I checked and I haven't done anything different to the game and its settings, Valve doesn't have any patch notes from that date. The worst thing is that other people see me moving perfectly fine, but on my screen everything lags for around 2-5 seconds every time I experience it. I even tried the m0rehighfps config, which gets rid of most to all particles and reduces the grafics quallity (with which I have no problem). The m0rehighfps config had a graph, which measures everything in the game. Every time I experienced a lag spike, the graph showed that there were a lot of particles. I thought that it was only on TF2 and tried playing CS:GO, but the same thing was happening. Only without the first 5-10 minutes of no lag. I have no idea what is going on. I'd be really grateful, if someone explained me what is causing this and how I can fix it.