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Problem while gaming.......

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Boney

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Specs:
Asus K8V SE Deluxe (bios 1007)
AMD 3400+ (754 skt)
ATI 9800 Pro 256mb
1 gig Kingston ram
74gig Raptor / 180gig WD storage hd
Windows x64

My problem is this..............as I am gaming, starting about 10 mins after I am into it (im normally playing CSS) my frames per second slowly start getting worse and worse to when im normally getting 80-100 fps, im getting 14ish after about 20 mins. I have tried reinstalling my video drivers, defragged with diskeeper, did a disk cleanup, and tried deleteing all my cs files and letting it rebuild them. Nothing seems to work. WOuld anyone be able to help ?
 
Any chance that you have a background virus scan running or something along those lines....??

Norton used to start up on mine while gaming before I ditched its computer hanging BSOD ass
 
no - I do have McAfee but before I start gaming i always turn it off and every other background thing i have going. So it cant be that =(
 
How does windows run when you exit the game.....


If windows (or any other program) seems to be running a bit laggy or slow, it would most likely be a memory issue (not enough memory, so your system would start to lag)

but ive never known CSS to be that big of a memory hog........


my only other suggestion is to reinstall windows, as it might be a spyware/adware thats running and using up memory (or you can do an intensive check and try to pinpoint it before reinstalling)
 
Originally posted by: Boney
Specs:
Asus K8V SE Deluxe (bios 1007)
AMD 3400+ (754 skt)
ATI 9800 Pro 256mb
1 gig Kingston ram
74gig Raptor / 180gig WD storage hd
Windows x64

My problem is this..............as I am gaming, starting about 10 mins after I am into it (im normally playing CSS) my frames per second slowly start getting worse and worse to when im normally getting 80-100 fps, im getting 14ish after about 20 mins. I have tried reinstalling my video drivers, defragged with diskeeper, did a disk cleanup, and tried deleteing all my cs files and letting it rebuild them. Nothing seems to work. WOuld anyone be able to help ?
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Install Speed Fan and post your temps at idle, and your temps 10 minutes into CS : S, I suspect its an overheating problem.
 
Whats your PSU also? Could be heat but your video card will automaticaly slow down if it isnt getting enough power (or at least nvidia does that).
 
what sound card are you using, Is your sound messed up to? I just had a simular problem it was my on-baord sound, I stuck in a really old PCI sound card and it went away.
 
Originally posted by: Boney
no - I do have McAfee but before I start gaming i always turn it off and every other background thing i have going. So it cant be that =(
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When you say turn it off do you mean disabling everything associated with McAfee? I have McAfee VS9.0 and just disabling the tray icon does not disable the biggest resource hog of the whole suite. When disabling VS, make sure you kill all Mc___ processes running in the background and esp McShield. It can lag your system severely for minutes at a time.
 
Well...............because i needed to for other reasons and what not i went ahead a reformated my computer which would have eliminated ANY spyware/virus/whatever software could have messed with CS. Needless to say that it did not work. I installed Speed Fan and my temps at idle are 39c and during full load go up to around 50c. That is pretty normal for me and all my voltages and what not are within spec. So what else could be my problem?

I tried cs again after reformating and again after 10-20 mins, my fps steadly got worse and worse. Is my video card shot? or could it be my ram? or anyone know anyhting else that could help me fix this? thanks a lot.
 
You said you reformatted but did you do a clean OS install? Clean CS install? Or did you just ghost an image over to the fresh formatted drive?
Sounds to me more like a memory leak then a hardware problem at this point (not sure though).
Sounds like as time goes on you are building up more and more resident junk in your memory which is not getting flushed out therefore eventually causing a slow decrease in performance.

Task manager should be able to give you some sign of this. You can monitor the memory and CPU usage and see if it is degrading over time.

I would also try some extensive RAM testers as well and burn in trials on something like Sandra.
 
I did a CLEAN install on all parts, i have put CS in a window, had SPEED FAN running, and task manager to watch for any weird spikes or glitches and there is nothing of the sort happening. My temps stay constant, my page file never moves, my cpu stays at 100% and my ram stays at a constant % as well. I will try and do some mem tests later but i do not think that is it.
Im going to try and get a friends video card (9600XT0 and see if i can eliminate the vid card.
 
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