I've been getting lots of lag too. I think that's what is causing the quake artifacts. I've seen a couple of lag starts, ive seen the sparks of a quake traveling about a second in front of the quake ripple, I've had the aforementioned quake misfires in eliminator, and i've also had occasions when i do a 180 and fire a quake in eliminator, only to have it fire forwards anyway, as if the 180 flip input got delayed longer then the fire quake input on the way to the server. Haven't played too many games since the patch, but almost all of them have been laggy or broken in some way. Then again, my internet connection is fairly unstable, so maybe its having a bad week and making everything seem worse then it is. Oddly enough, i still have never once gotten any vista pads! I'd gladly swap some of those for some of the other problems...