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wezlington   06-14-2006 at 03:33:25 PM

Hey, i bought a pc which was ok spec for cs considering how old the game is, it was something like 512 ram, 2.6ghz p4 and a geforce mx440. After a while i decided to upgrade it and bought a gig of new corsair ram and a 6800 GT. I was told that defragging your hard disk would increase your performance, so i did this regularly without knowing that it could damage my hard disk. Ater a while my performance in game started to drop alot and the pc was close to 3 years old without a format etc. I decided to format and this seemed to have solved the problem but after a while my pc started to run really badly and in-game i was getting 80fps in an 800x600 resolution which shouldn't be happening with this pc spec. I thought that it would be to do with my hard disk failing so i purchased a new hard disk and a new motherboard and installed them both.

When i installed windows i used an old DELL sp1 windows xp professional disk that came with my pc when i bought it 3 years ago, but the only thing from dell in my pc was the processor. After a format i installed latest graphics card drivers (also tried earlier versions to see if it made cs run better as it is an old game) and LAN/audio drivers for my motherboard (I lost the disk that came with it). I think that it can't be hardware related as the spec is far too good for problems to occur, but i have to overclock my graphics card/cpu and lower ram timings for the game to actually be playable, which again shouldn't be the case.

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to what could be causing the problems, is it hardware related or do i need to install something else that i forgot after formatting. I'm pretty poor with computer related problems so any suggestions will be appreciated.

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waylander   06-14-2006 at 11:59:15 PM
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I'm assuming that you are talking about CS1.6 on the old hl engine...

So right now you have

MB: ???
CPU: P4 2.6
Ram: 1.5 gb (mix of corsair and generic)
GPU: 6800GT
HDD: ??

Have you run dxdiag just to make sure your directx is updated and running ok? I would run only the corsair ram and take out the 512 from before if it's still in there.

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wezlington   06-15-2006 at 12:10:27 AM
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yea ive updated directx but its still not fixed the problem. i have an asus p4p800-e motherboad and i was only using the 1gig of corsair ram

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airvents   06-15-2006 at 12:55:55 AM
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have you updated your motherboard bios since you bought it and how large is your power supply?

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wezlington   06-15-2006 at 11:26:36 PM
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no i havent updated my BIOS, would this actually affect my performance? i have a 450W psu

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airvents   06-15-2006 at 11:28:41 PM
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well you could try they might have new agp drivers which could increase not sure unless u try what i mean by agp drivers are like ie:agp 3.0 i guess you could say and some other sstuff really try it though it wont hurt

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wezlington   06-16-2006 at 12:18:05 AM
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is there any chance you could give me a link and instructions to how to do it? dont you have to put it on a floppy and make it boot from floppy or something? :)

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airvents   06-16-2006 at 04:58:08 AM
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im sorry i dont know where i could get the bios thats your job but look around google it on how to flash your bios or update shuold tell you everyting just to much for the forums to go in depth but yeah it might work if you can figure it out :) good luck :wink:

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airvents   06-16-2006 at 09:25:01 AM
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try turning the resolution all the way up to 1600/1200 maybe it could be that your video card isnt being fully utulized and maube therre is a fps cap hting but really first thing u should do is turn in all the way up :)

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oaksmokedbacon   08-04-2006 at 05:40:26 PM
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dont even bother with the directx stuff if ur running CS1.6 as it uses opengl. Make sure that you are in OGL in the cS settings (this relates to HL as well)

Make sure your video drivers are uptodate. Check that your motherboard drivers in windows are upto date for your chipset and download windows patches. Also check your sound card, is it onboard or a PCI card? update the drivers accordingly.

CS1.6 is mainly CPU reliant. Take out the generic ram and use the 1gb on its own could also help you.

you may also have a Virus. I had one that killed my fps and was a right **** to get rid of.

I had the same mobo as you and Cpu and had no problems at all.

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