I'm having the same problem in all my games: When I first load a game, everything is really slow--like its loading all the textures. Once I "see" everything, like spinning arround in CS:source, the textures get loaded and things smooth out. I've also noticed the same thing in World of Warcraft. It's annoying though, whenever I go into a new area the slowdown and freezes return. System: Geforce Ti4400, Athlon XP, 256 MB ram.