Hello @voice06, if you are still experiencing this issue with an up to date system, please open a new issue report in the Source-1-Games issue tracker. Closing as general video driver driver performance from 2013 is no longer relevant.
Nothing extracted yet.
While playing Team Fortress 2 the game will periodically lock up between 2 to 10 seconds. This has been happening for a while, attached is a older screenshot of what the net_graph is showing during these locks.

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x1a
CPU Stepping: 0x5
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3068 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
Network Information:
Network Speed:
Operating System Version:
Linux Mint 14 Nadia (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-40-generic
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11300000
X Window Manager: Marco
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release_2013-09-05
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 680/PCIe/SSE2
Sound card:
Audio device: VIA VT2020
Memory:
RAM: 16048 Mb
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 275247 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 133006 Mb