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Choppiness in Counter-Strike

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Chis

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Hello,

When I play Half-Life: Counter-Strike, it runs very smoothly at first, but then becomes quite choppy, seemingly at random points. The choppiness goes away and comes back randomly as well, but it never happens in the first, say, 30 minutes.

The game was working perfectly a couple months ago, and then I changed monitors. I believe it worked after I changed monitors also, but then stopped working at some point. I'm not sure what could have caused this.

To try to fix it, I've reformatted, lowered hardware acceleration, lowered windows resolution, lowered amount of bits in video, and have reinstalled the monitor and video card drivers many many times. I have a GeForce Ti4600 graphics card, which should be quite capable of handling Counter-Strike with no choppiness at all.

Additionally, my system (Windows XP) takes about three minutes to restart each time. Should this be instantaneous or is this fairly normal (I typically have a decent amount of programs open and I know it has to do things like system restore points and such)?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
chis
 
My WinXp system boots completely in 85 secs (I just timed it).

One of the good things about CS, is it is a fairly old program that runs well on thousands of older comps out there, so it's online community is large.

Your system should run the game as well or better than mine does, I get consistent framerates of 99fps.

You may have several issues going against you. Sounds like you do have a Windows problem, not sure what to tell you about fixing it, the reformat should have done it.

Alternatively,you might get better results with older nvidia drivers. I, and many gamers prefer the older 30.82 detonator drivers, available here.

Another issue regarding online gaming is to make sure you connect to servers on which you will have as low a ping as possible. I don't know if you have a broadband connection or not, but if you do, you should connect to servers on which your ping is less than 60.
 
Thanks for the tips. I've just rolled back the driver, so I'll try that now. I used to get a consistent 99 fps, but now it varies quite a bit (usually when there is lots of action), and I this happens on any server (I get about 50-60 ping on all of these so that shouldn't be the issue).

Could the issue be this monitor that I'm using that is on the lower end (I'm currently away from my home and not using my regular fairly high end monitor)?
 
Chis,try disabling any programs you don`t need from system tray in taskbar like anti-virus etc while playing CS,also disable FSAA in Nvidia control panel.What motherboard do you have,since installing chipset drivers like on VIA and nforce boards etc is recommended ,especially the AGP driver.

Some bios tweaks might help,I like to have all video ram cacheable disabled,video shadowing disabled,fastwrites disabled and AGP size set to 64mb or 128mb ram.




 
Try stopping all your programs running, and see if that fixes the problem.

About system startup time, that's pretty much how much time it take me to restart from the time you click restart to the time i can log in again.
 
I can try that, but I know my rate wasn't that high before and it worked. Is this possibly a monitor issue?
 
That doesn't seem to work either. I was thinking -- could this be some sort of latency issue (I'm currently at a college for the summer), like it has lag spikes every now and then? I say this because last night, I was in a server where I was getting terrible ping, and it seemed the same way.
 
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