spastic framerate

[DooMMooD]

i just bought a feforce fx 5500 256 DDR. it works really well and im very happy with it. however, when i play counter strike with it, the framerate is very spastic. at one second it could be running at 80 fps and then the next second it could be running at 30. now i know that this card should be able to reach 100 fps. why is it being so spastic? is there a setting i should change or an update i should download?

[Nephil]

Do you use the latest drivers from Nvidia? Latest DirectX? And do you use OpenGL or Direct3D when playing CS?

[DooMMooD]

first i installed the drivers from the cd, then i downloaded them and installed them. its still jumpy and low. the framerate is at like 40 in openGL 800x600, my integrated 16mb can do that. and it runs like crap in d3d. this is very frustrating

[Nephil]

Any programs running in the background?

[DooMMooD]

nope.

[Tyberious]

check for spyware/scumware soaking up cpy cycles? What are your full specs? I could suggest optmizing programs, that might help as I noticed some good imporvements even on my system (which is pretty powerful which would be hard to notice). I am guessing this may be a cpu problem, your game sounds like its now being bottlenecked by the cpu. You can optimize things such as the bios but without the system specs there isn't much I can determine.

I knwo you meed the requirements for counterstrike but your CPU can still limit the frames (the next gen cards are cpu limited at almost every resolution without aa or af).

hope this helps, when I get mroe info then I will supply better help.

[DooMMooD]

the full specs on my pc are:
2.4 Ghz Celeron
40gb HDD
512 DDR DIMM RAM
ASUS mobo

i did some additional research and i think it might be the IRQ assignment, only now i need to learn how to fix that. but im still open to suggestions

[Tyberious]

if that is what it is then make sure you don't have any legacy parts such as ISA cards and don't have anything in the bios reserved when it comes ot IRQ's. Disable and unused ports such as parallel ports, serial ports etc. and I am not so sure about that celly, my hunch is that your CPU is the biggest bottleneck but lets see if its another problem (hopefully).

Try updating everything you can think of for one to make sure everything is working like a charm. Check for spyware with spybot search and destroy & AD-aware 6. try seeing of there are IRQ conflicts int he bios (I would heavily suggest going to overclocking sites and other sites for bios option descriptions or use your motherboard manual). Another option could be to update your bios rom but that should be a last resort along witht he cpu upgrade being a last resort. I will see what I can think of.

[Abrax]

Its strange that you're not getting as high a framerate as you maybe should, but the framerate in all games goes spastic (unless you cap it). Take Risen 3D on my comp, with the Hi-Res textures, and latest model pack at 1600x1200, I get anywhere between 150-650fps, and an amazing 1000fps on the title pic. My Q3A goes anywhere between 80-444fps also, so I capped it @ 125fps.

Are you sure that the onboard chipset has been completely disabled, and that it is not conflicting with you're new 5500. BTW, what speed is you're AGP, and what speed do you have it set at.

[The Undertaker]

Its Counter Strike, the one for Half Life, the game that runs on a P166. If IRQ's the problem trying switching the Plug'n'Play settings. Try updating the chipset drivers (here (http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=816) for Intel).

[DooMMooD]

ok. first what is a legacy ISA device. i dont have any IRQs reserved, theyre all available.

my AGP speed is 4x, and thats what i have it running at. and im pretty sure i have my onboard graphics off, but ill check. thanks for all the advice guys.

[Doom2Hell]

one thing to try, would be to make sure the latest motherboard drivers are installed for your agp SLOT. not the drivers for the card, but for the slot itself, sometimes the proper ones are never installed and that hinders performance CONSIDERABLY. and i agree with tyb on the celery, that is NOT a gaming CPUm by any strech, the lack of level 2 cache on celerons severely cripple the processing efficiency, it still processes information just as fast, but it cant ACCESS as much of it at a time...

*EDIT oh yeah, a legacy ISA device is a non plug and play card, one that you have to manually provide a driver for.

[Tyberious]

one thing to try, would be to make sure the latest motherboard drivers are installed for your agp SLOT. not the drivers for the card, but for the slot itself, sometimes the proper ones are never installed and that hinders performance CONSIDERABLY. and i agree with tyb on the celery, that is NOT a gaming CPUm by any strech, the lack of level 2 cache on celerons severely cripple the processing efficiency, it still processes information just as fast, but it cant ACCESS as much of it at a time...

*EDIT oh yeah, a legacy ISA device is a non plug and play card, one that you have to manually provide a driver for.

yes Doom2Hell is correct, I believe he means the 4 In 1 drivers if I am not mistaken. I would suggest updating everything possible. Chances are if its not the graphics card, not the drivers, not the IRQ's (because that isn't a problem since you don't have any real problems with those) isn't any startup programs, Not sure about spyware, aren't any background programs and isn't the operating system or bios then its very well your celeron. I am sorry but thise cenerons are severely crippled, a 1.7Ghz processor should be faster since you are running on a 400Mhz bus. You can get either the fastest Celeron (although I highly don't recommend it) or get a good Pentium 4 which would help you out a lot.

Tell us what you have already done so we can cross those off the list.