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Ron_Jeremy   09-01-2001 at 12:19:54 PM

I have so far been unable to play CS on my XP RC2 machine. The only problem I have is severe mouse & movement lag (LAN games included). Funny thing is the problem doesn't exist if I'm standing still (in the game that is hehe). Once I start moving, the mouse/movement lag appears immediately.

Here's some of my attempted & unsuccessful fixes:

> OpenGL & D3D
> PS/2 & USB mouse. Fooled around settings (& the baud settings for PS/2), disabled/enabled various mouse sttings, played with sensitivity/acceleration
> All sorts of Detonators (12 series down to 5 series)
> Running XP with minimum graphics settings (i.e., how pretty it looks)
> Lowering resolution to minimum
> Removing hair from scalp

Well, has anyone been succesful? My system comprises of TNT2/32, 384MB RAM, SBLive value. Damn, CS ran like a dream on my NT4 setup......

Oh, I should add that the single player part of the game (Half-Life) runs absolutely flawlessly.

Cheers,

Ron_Jeremy

If you loan a friend $20 & never see them again, it was worth it.

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Anonymous   09-01-2001 at 03:21:41 PM
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ditch XP go to win 98 se - perfect for games. or dual boot the 2 xp and 98 and there you go - games system and whatever else system.
Xp has just come out and probably has hundreds of bugs in it. I aint getting it. Then again I'm still on win 95.

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Ron_Jeremy   09-01-2001 at 11:29:39 PM
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Sorry, I don't use dinky Win9x OS's.

Cheers,

Ron_Jeremy

If you loan a friend $20 & never see them again, it was worth it.

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Ron_Jeremy   09-10-2001 at 10:48:05 AM
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Well, if anyone cares here is the cause. I was using a batch file to start the game in "high" mode rather than "normal", as I've been doing in NT4 for almost 2 years. I found that either I do not have enough cpu power (433 Celeron/384MB RAM) or XP (& Win2K for that matter) does not like using "high" mode (for this application anyway).

As soon as I removed the "/high" switch from the batch file, all was well in Xp & 2K land........

Cheers,

Ron_Jeremy

If you loan a friend $20 & never see them again, it was worth it.

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Anonymous   09-16-2001 at 04:26:27 PM
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Don't diss XP. I am using it( not the beta) and it works pefectly fine with no bugs. The only acutual bug is from IE6.

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Anonymous   02-09-2002 at 07:43:24 PM
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You shoul`nt even think about running XP on enything lower then a P3 6-700 Mhz,,,,,, That`s the reason why you have crappy result in that games,,,,,,,,

I ate my WinME boot disk for breakfast

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Rob423   02-10-2002 at 04:09:54 AM
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Excellent Point..XP runs Smooth as hell on my XP 1600+ system...no bugs, no problems at all ( XP PROFESSIONAL )... Counter strike run's perfectly fine, it's probley your system SPECS dude

Rob,

Once you go AMD, You never Go back!!

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reptilej   02-12-2002 at 06:33:12 AM
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that brings back memories! at the place i used to work at in high school, my boss used to install windows 2000 server on pentium 233 mmx. it ran like crap. it's sort of like putting a dinky 2.3 i-4 in a big rig tractor trailor.

repeat after me, we are all individuals!

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Red_Zealot   02-14-2002 at 05:01:39 AM
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Jeezus techie, Win95!?!

If you dont wanna pay for a new OS, just go with Linux (or pirate XP :) )

"If you teach a child to read, then he or her will be able to pass a literacy test" - George W.

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Anonymous   02-14-2002 at 07:17:27 AM
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I've heard XP strains systems resources a lot more. A faster CPU would probably help a lot. Of course a faster CPU always helps.

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10Mhz8086   02-14-2002 at 07:56:17 AM
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Why are you using RC2?

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