Help me gain fps in Counter-Strike

[kendogg]

My system is a classic Athlon 700mhz w/ voodoo3 3000agp, and 384mb PC133 ram.

The odd thing is im getting anywhere from 30-40 fps... and somewhere on this forum some guy said he was getting 47 with a voodoo2 566 celery.

I dont know what is going on...... the game does seem choppy at times ... my average pings are 20-50ms.. I must have set something incorrectly for this to happen...


Please help me out.. thanks

 

[damocles]

Have you tried Open GL?

 

[kendogg]

yes I am running opengl 800x600 resolution

 

[damocles]

At 3dfiles they have a link to 'GLsetup' which should detect and install the best drivers for your video card, it might be worth a try. I actually used it to install drivers that were older than the Detonator 7.17 and my framerates increased

hope this works

 

[Sunner]

To me it seems there's no way to make the HL engine run perfectly smooth.

I've gone from a P2-266 with a V2-12 MB to a Duron600@900 with a GF DDR, and of course a few steps in between, and frankly, I havent noticed much of a speed improvement, aside from the fact that I can run in higher resolutions now.

 

[damocles]

I play on a P3-933 with an MX and get a constant 70fps. Smooth as butter, i only wish UT were the same

 

[Pete]

My P3-700, 384MB RAM, and 16MB Xpert128 give me about 40-50 at 8x6 in heavy online action.

->Check that your desktop is at 16-bit color depth.
->Do you have the latest mobo drivers? I don't own an Athlon, so I haven't followed it at all, but it seems bus drivers are crucial to good system performance.
->I don't know the command for it, but check what your refresh rate cap is as well.
->Make sure net_graph isn't on, or run the non-graphical ones if you must have it.
->Did you try D3D, to check if your FPS anomaly is limited to just one setting?
->Finally, try GLsetup, as damocles suggested.

You might have to resort to uninstalling and reinstalling HL and CT--be brave.

Interesting quote. Se7en was a pretty good movie, but I have no desire to see it every time you post...

 

[damocles]

Also play with your resolutions set lower and see if there is a significant improvement.

also there might be help at the CS forums
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