Counter Strike 1.6 (steam) FPS problem

[BusOfTheUndead]

Strange. I already had that update installed when I started noticing the problem. I tried upgrading to the latest drivers from Realtek's site and still had the issue. I just tried reinstalling the driver from Windows Update and I'm still having the same problem. I have to restart my network or my games are lagtastic. I did notice that the first time I installed the driver it took 2 tries. The first install failed for some reason. Perhaps that failed install has left behind some corrupted files?

 

[AlexChung]

Strange. I already had that update installed when I started noticing the problem. I tried upgrading to the latest drivers from Realtek's site and still had the issue. I just tried reinstalling the driver from Windows Update and I'm still having the same problem. I have to restart my network or my games are lagtastic. I did notice that the first time I installed the driver it took 2 tries. The first install failed for some reason. Perhaps that failed install has left behind some corrupted files?

Actually, after using it a bit longer, the issue is starting to come back. I think it has to do with the motherboard...

 

[ilija]

Can someone put this as sticky or smth, until the proper solution is found since I am not the only one who has this problem? Am I?

Thank you!

 

[Borum]

i have the same problem as larry. what i did, was try to go back a few drivers instead of using 191.07. which pwned me. Now I KNOW for a fact i turned off vsync. but the vsync is definately on when i try to play cs. 75fps instead of 60. cuz my refresh rate is 75. But before i went back on drivers i had 100 fps no problem. but now i dont, and i even reinstalled the latest drivers.

nvidia 9800gtx win7-64bit

 

[larryman]

@ Borum
At the moment I had 60 fps max, my vsync was turned off...
To solve this, I just turned vsync on, hit apply and off and hit again apply. After this my fps wasn't capped anymore...

 

[Borum]

unfortunately, i just tried that, and it did not work at all.. im so sad =(

 

[ilija]

Tried updating ALL drivers... Doesn't work... -.-

 

[RohamDroid]

Hi i have this machine :

a bad MSI board ...
ATI HD 2600 XT AGP
1 GB of DDR1 memory
etc.

i have 80 fps in a 32 slots server With STEAM ..

i downloaded the Direct X WEB Installer ..... this web installer update my direct x and solve my problem .. | without directX i have 10 15 fps .. |

 

[Sobi]

Hey, im not quite sure if this will help, but we can try. I had the same problem with low FPS on my old system (Vista-32b). Try to write this to your cs console (guess it will work only with Ati cards):
ati_npatch 0
ati_subdiv 0
U should also turn off the vertical synchronization, but i have no idea how u can do that.. Hope it will help.


Btw. Does anyone know what is wrong with my settings on 7? When I start cs1.6 it doesnt switch to resolution 800x600 but remains in basic win 7 (1280x800). The aplication size is 800x600 points but its centered and all around is black screen. Its impossible to play.
Any advice? Thx

 

[AlexChung]

Hey, im not quite sure if this will help, but we can try. I had the same problem with low FPS on my old system (Vista-32b). Try to write this to your cs console (guess it will work only with Ati cards):
ati_npatch 0
ati_subdiv 0
U should also turn off the vertical synchronization, but i have no idea how u can do that.. Hope it will help.


Btw. Does anyone know what is wrong with my settings on 7? When I start cs1.6 it doesnt switch to resolution 800x600 but remains in basic win 7 (1280x800). The aplication size is 800x600 points but its centered and all around is black screen. Its impossible to play.
Any advice? Thx

Can you post a screenshot of how it looks? Try setting the launch options to fullscreen mode.

right click steam icon on bottom right > Games > right click Counter-Strike (under My Games tab) > Properties > Set Launch Options

In the command line, type "-full", without the quotation marks of course. This will force CS to run in fullscreen. Give it a shot, let me know the results

 

[ilija]

Hey, im not quite sure if this will help, but we can try. I had the same problem with low FPS on my old system (Vista-32b). Try to write this to your cs console (guess it will work only with Ati cards):
ati_npatch 0
ati_subdiv 0
U should also turn off the vertical synchronization, but i have no idea how u can do that.. Hope it will help.


Btw. Does anyone know what is wrong with my settings on 7? When I start cs1.6 it doesnt switch to resolution 800x600 but remains in basic win 7 (1280x800). The aplication size is 800x600 points but its centered and all around is black screen. Its impossible to play.
Any advice? Thx

Try

-fullscreen -w 800 -h 600

in "Set launch options"

 

[BusOfTheUndead]

Btw. Does anyone know what is wrong with my settings on 7? When I start cs1.6 it doesnt switch to resolution 800x600 but remains in basic win 7 (1280x800). The aplication size is 800x600 points but its centered and all around is black screen. Its impossible to play.
Any advice? Thx

Sounds like a scaling issue. I'm not sure where the settings are for ATI drivers but there should be an option to disable scaling.

 

[pinstripe]

Hey guys, if you're still having trouble, try disabling your sound card in device manager and then run the game and see if it plays the same. If the choke / lag / stutters / are gone, check out this thread for the fix: http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/31980-lag-online-games-windows-7-a.html#post331641

 

[AlexChung]

Thanks pinstripe,

This seems to have permanently fixed the problem for me. For those of you who haven't tried this yet, this is what I did:

Leave the multimedia class scheduler service running, but disable its network throttling "feature":

• Open regedit
• Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile
• There will be an entry for network performance throttling, default value is 10; set it to FFFFFFFF hex (willl look like 0xFFFFFFFF to the right of the entry)
• Reboot

 

[WillNash]

Hey I think I mat have the solution,
First right-click on "Counter-Strike" in Steam, Properties, Local Files then press "Defragment Cache Files", wait for it to finish, restart steam and open the game.
Type in console "fps_max 999" and press enter.
Type in console "developer 1" and press enter.
you should see a big increase in FPS... Hopefully.
Good Luck.

 

[WillNash]

Thanks pinstripe,

This seems to have permanently fixed the problem for me. For those of you who haven't tried this yet, this is what I did:

Leave the multimedia class scheduler service running, but disable its network throttling "feature":

• Open regedit
• Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile
• There will be an entry for network performance throttling, default value is 10; set it to FFFFFFFF hex (willl look like 0xFFFFFFFF to the right of the entry)
• Reboot

IF you disable the soundcard, will you still be able to hear in-game sound?!

 

[Ozirus]

Not sure if this will help, but it was the solution for me.

http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/49546-lags-games-windows-7-x64-pro-2.html#post494750

 

[AlexChung]

Hey I think I mat have the solution,
First right-click on "Counter-Strike" in Steam, Properties, Local Files then press "Defragment Cache Files", wait for it to finish, restart steam and open the game.
Type in console "fps_max 999" and press enter.
Type in console "developer 1" and press enter.
you should see a big increase in FPS... Hopefully.
Good Luck.

I would not recommend turning on developer 1 in Counter Strike, it actually decreases performance in game rather than helping it. CS 1.6 is only able to run at a max of 100FPS, and running at anything higher is counter productive.

Disabling network throttling is not the same as disabling the sound card.
Follow this link for information:

http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/31980-lag-online-games-windows-7-a.html

 

[TheHonkeyDonkey]

bump..

I have the same problem as the OP, when I disable my sound card, my FPS is normal (100 most of the time).

yet fps drops occur when i have sound.... its unplayable... and i can play better with no sound and thats just not fun

 

[messer19]

Hi guys, exactly the same problem here.

Everything worked just fine until this saturday when I reinstalled my Win 7 x64.

When I tried to play CS 1.6 I got a massive FPS drop (even to 5 FPS !!!!) when I met an opponent and shoot.

I tried also Left 4 Dead and it was unplayable in exteriors.

I was afraid my graphic card was damaged but when I installed Win XP today, everything works fine again and I got nice 100 FPS.

I think some windows update caused this.

My specs:

Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz
Gigabyte P35-DS3R
Asus EN 8800GT
4 GB ADATA RAM