What are things that mess up your Quake game?

[Shok]

Ok for me its:

- when family members on my net go on youtube, webcam or "d/l" something real quick, it obv screws me over especially if i'm in a fight and I lag like crud

- a buddy gave me a desktop, so I use it for quake only, only crappy thing is around 10 minutes after booting up (and usually during a game) the stoopid thing starts a network back up program which chops the CPU up and I have to
alt-tab and then goto taskmgr to stop

- the rear USB ports got hot so the mouse would drop connection
I have since moved the mouse to front USB port

- then my stoopid mouse keeps losing its sensitivity (goes to real slow sens)
I have to unplug/plug it in every now and then

Yes I know I can prob fix most of these things but I think it will be interesting to see what people put down.

So what messes up your gameplay? Wife? GF? Yes I'm bored at work.

[foq]

1. Use QOS in the router

2. Uninstall the "network back up program"

3. I've never heard of a USB port getting hot before. Clear the CMOS on the motherboard, maybe it's being overvolted or something. If not, you can get a PCI USB card.

[Panix]

• Leaving Firefox open and Forecastfox popups to tell me I have a severe weather warning (kills my gamma)
• Forget to kill my honeypot and MySQL starts to hog the CPU from logging multiple exploit attempts
• Kimp nags the shit out of me to play DM/CTF/etc

[Wolv]

Mouse slipping out of my hand. Though this doesn't happen often, it happens often enough.

Bumping my wireless mouse.

Foq_TU

Fone calls, or someone texting me if my fone is on maximum volume during a DM game.

Kirx getting vote-admin

Net will have it's off days and chop.

Leaving Facebook open will cause major FPS drop occasionally.

[foq]

Foq_TU

Good!

[Efess]

-Skype popups really mess with GL rendering -FPS drops to ~10

-Running out of mousepad

-Not being able to concentrate or "thinking too much"

-Panicking when health is low

[rev]

- sub-30 ping shaft, that's a game breaker..
-not having the BOX-FAN! on my uncovered computer, causing the computer to restart, still..
-my youngest child walking to the computer and just mashing any and all keys she can reach during an intense fight, which always ends with my death, not the other guy. (odds make me think at least once in a blue moon her random buttons would help, but not once, ever.)
-my oldest child yelling "mama... mama! MAMAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" every 2-3 minutes... i shit you not, every 2-3 minutes.

that's about it... for now.

[metchsteekle]

- laptop overheating (not usually sense i have a fan pointing on it and i took the bottom panel off) causing low fps

- wireless router being an ass and giving me icon every 3 seconds (can practically set a watch or dance too it when this happens)

- having to go do stuff

- in a mood other than "KILL KILL KILL!" or low spirit :/

- not listing to EBM as i play

those are the usualses

[eieio]

-lack of aim

-movement like a pregnant yak

-general lack of any kind of strategy

-booze

[f-7]

-kimp updating me on up comming matches even though i told him im not playing.
-15 ping but my computer is so slowed down it feels all choppy like i ping 70.. each time i fire RL it gets shakey
-one of my wifes cats getting behind the computer and walking around on the powerbar, shutting it off. "has happened many times as he likes to sit on the light"
-wife wanting to watch TV "which means i have to come and watch it as well for some stupid fucking reason".. Shows include - American Idol, Greys Anatomy, Jersey Shore, Intervention, Cake Boss, The Bachelor... All these shows ruin my quaking. But she has wine during these shows then normally blows me or something later on. Its like payment for putting up with terrible TV.
- kimp again.
And Finally..... This probably applies to all of you as well.
-Porn.

[Souless]

I use wi-fi so i constantly play with a 110 ping chop.

[spooker]

-my Razor Diamondback mouse squeaking every time I press mouse1 (it was no improvement from the cheap, stock HP mouse)
-family streaming Netflix on the Bluray player
-ragequits, since I have to win to have a good time
-meals shared with family

[JeSuS]

easiest and best fix.. get a new pc lol

[Dreadlorde]

Bad spelling and punctuation.

*shudders at this thread*

[metchsteekle]

notes and are not supposed to have punctuation, and sense these things of interest are in point form (commonly used to make notes) we unconsciously want to have these down as fast as possible so shorthand spelling will inadvertently kick in.

i blame school, but don't mind me im shpechilll.