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Title: That Age old question: Why is my FPS so damn low ?
Post by: Mardoni on November 07, 2006, 20:39:28 PM

Right, well I built a newer rig recently and decided to fire up CS:Source as it had been a really long time since I last played. What do I find ? Thats right, my GFX card really seems to be struggling now but it didnt before :s

Ive gone from a XP3200 w/ 1gb ram to a Pent D @ 3.2 w/ 2gb ram. The GFX card is the same, an ATI X800XT PE.

I used to get a stable 50fps with Valves suggested settings but now I get massive fluxuations between 9 and 150fps ?!?! Ive tried switching all the OS based options and in game options off but it doesnt seem to make any difference.

Does anyone have any ideas ?

Title: Re:That Age old question: Why is my FPS so damn low ?
Post by: Sweenster on November 07, 2006, 21:25:53 PM

latest drivers from graphics?

are the mobo settings correct, for the graphics slot, etc

Title: That Age old question: Why is my FPS so damn low ?
Post by: Mardoni on November 07, 2006, 21:28:54 PM

yeap and yeap.

I am coming to the conclusion that its either the card or a card/mobo combo as I am seeing drops to 50fps in CS1.6 too :(

Bah this old card has done me well I guess. Time to stop playing PC games and concentrate on the 360 :)

Title: Re:That Age old question: Why is my FPS so damn low ?
Post by: Cypher on November 07, 2006, 21:31:32 PM

How long ago? You may find some more graphical options to tweak with since the major changes of the source engine and the introduction of HDR.

Title: Re:That Age old question: Why is my FPS so damn low ?
Post by: Pete on November 07, 2006, 21:40:12 PM

You got a tv card or anything installed?

Title: That Age old question: Why is my FPS so damn low ?
Post by: Mardoni on November 08, 2006, 09:20:30 AM

When Im playing a HDR map (de_dust) everything seems to be fine for a good 20mins or so. I get around 55fps with few drops.

As soon as 20mins passes or someone throws a smoke grenade somewhere on the map my FPS drops heavily and never recovers; even quitting and restarting doesnt recover the fps rate :/

Ive not got any other gfx device installed, except the onboard VGA. My BIOS option is set to AGP/Onboard, there is no "AGP Only" option so I guessed that would be best. There are other choicies; AGP/PCI, PCI/AGP, Onboard/AGP etc. I will try those too.

I was wondering if it was my resolution; 1280*1024 so I dropped that to 1024*768 but it made no difference !!

Title: Re:That Age old question: Why is my FPS so damn low ?
Post by: BigSoy on November 08, 2006, 12:54:57 PM

Wasnt there a software fix somewhere posted on here reasonably recently that solves issues with dual-core processors and wacky games performance?

If it wasnt on here Im convinced Ive seen that somewhere.

Title: Re:That Age old question: Why is my FPS so damn low ?
Post by: madmax on November 08, 2006, 19:01:33 PM

there was an amd dual core driver for games, dunno if intel have similar.

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