CS Choppy on K6-3 450 w/ GeForce2 ?

[Cpt. Duke]

Here's my setup -

K6-3 450
Diamond C200 motherboard (Micronics)
Leadtek Geforce2 Pro


The problem is that Couter-strike is very "stuttery" meaning it's playable but not really. I know the CPU is weak with Floating Point stuff but I only want it to be able to play CS smoothy. As is, this setup seems slower running HL based games than when I had a Celeron 450a with a Voodoo3 a couple years ago ...

I was thinking that maybe the GeForce2 has some incompatabilities with the motherboard (just as the TNT1 and TNT2 did with these Non-Intel chipsets).

I don't know what's going on - any ideas ?

Thx

 

[Alex]

how much ram ya got? youll be surprised how much impact it makes. gf2s usually handle HL pretty good so im guessin a processor/memory bottleneck...

 

[spanky]

the cpu is definitely the bottleneck. voodoo3's r great for CS... the gf pro is better... but seems like u downgraded on the cpu. also, r u running in opengl or d3d? and what resolution?

 

[Cpt. Duke]

wat's up Spanky?

The machine has 384 mb ram, is running 640 x 480, and either direct 3d or openl ...

 

[Actaeon]

CS isn't much of a resource hog. I remember playing it on my TNT, 300a@450, and with 128mb of ram, just fine at 800x600. And ran even smoother with my 300a@450 and my old GF2MX at 1024x768. So, I know his system should be able to play in CS at 640x480.

As far as the motherboard, I used to have a Diamond C400 (Slot 1). My GF2MX, and my TNT had no problems in there. Yes, different mobos, but same brand, but hey, doesn't hurt knowing.

I really don't know what the problem is, I just thought I should comment that your computer is perfectly capable of running it at 640x480.

All I can say is, get the latest drivers, make sure you're running it in OpenGL (not software/direct3d), and make sure you have nothing else running.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: 1DJCherny
wat's up Spanky?

The machine has 384 mb ram, is running 640 x 480, and either direct 3d or openl ...

sup dude didn't know it was you til just now
anyway, make sure u r running opengl. i remember messing around with different settings before and running CS with d3d is always "jittery". changing to opengl cleared all that up.

 

[Mem]

Go into Nvidia display properties and make sure FSAA is off.