Recently I downloaded tremulous again after a break (it always worked perfectly for me in the past with v1.1) and now I suddenly get this weird kind of lag where sometimes everything works just fine for a few seconds and then I get this lag where if I press W for an amount of time, I don't move forward for 1 or 2 seconds (in worst cases) and then after I release it (or while if I press longer), it starts to move forward for a longer time then I pressed W.
This same problem I have with every button in the game as soon as I enter a server (including the escape button). If I shoot for example with the Lucifer cannon it begins charging pretty much on time and then when I release the mouse button it is a random time before it actually fires and sometimes overheats even if I pressed the button only for a pretty short time (not nearly enough time to let it overheat). But with the rifle, the shooting animation seems pretty on time, but the bullets only appear after some time.
With the aliens I just have the same movement problems as with the humans but I just miss a lot.
But the rest of the players seem to be displayed as usual, they all continue to move and shoot like they should at all times and my fps is a constant 90 and ping is below 100 most of the time though seems to flux a lot to between 100-200.
This effect seems to differ per server for some reason (some servers where I have a higher ping, the lag is less).
I run windows xp x64, AMD Athlon 64 3500, double SLI GeForce 6600 GT and have a good adsl connection and the rest of the online games work just fine for me.
(ps. sorting servers on ping in the server list also doesn't work for me, never has, common problem?)