smoke grenades create "display lag" in cstrike?

[CTho9305]

when someone throws a smoke grenade, after a little smoke comes out, my screen start to "lag". by this I mean that if I shoot, i hear the shot, the person dies, but I dont see it until about 1/2-1 second later. the framerate stays high, just behind. any ideas?

tbird 700
geforce2 gts
various driver versions
winxp

 

[richleader]

You shouldn't be having that problem with a GTS. Not at all.

Have you tried futzing with the "rate" command to change your internet connection?

And changing the smoke complexity in the options?

 

[CTho9305]

rate doesn't seem to do anything (as in, no chagne between 1 and 1000000)... this happens even when i host a lan game with nobody in it. if it matters, I'm on a 10mbit lan with multiple T3's worth of bandwidth. 🙂

Where are the smoke complexity options? I looked at all the video options I could find. "Draw faster software sprites" seems to have no effect.

I'm using D3d, since opengl is kinda unstable in counterstrike

 

[richleader]

Unstable? OGL rocks. I had a similar setup as you and I played at 1024x768, 4x fsaa, perfectly smooth even with smoke spammers.

Give it a try and see if it clears up, though I don't think it should be happening, regardless. 🙁

 

[CTho9305]

<< Unstable? OGL rocks. I had a similar setup as you and I played at 1024x768, 4x fsaa, perfectly smooth even with smoke spammers.

Give it a try and see if it clears up, though I don't think it should be happening, regardless. 🙁 >>



OGL does rock. it is noticeably i guess i'll try OGL with different dets or something and see if that works.

 

[TheWart]

i have a similar system, go with OGL.