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Technical Help & Discussion => PC & Console Games and Gaming => Topic started by: wezlington on June 14, 2006, 14:25

Title: Counter Strike problem
Post by: wezlington on June 14, 2006, 14:25

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.

Cheers

Title: Counter Strike problem
Post by: Sandra on June 14, 2006, 18:54

Hi wezlington and :welcome:

Have you updated to Direct X 9 as the original XP with SP1 will have an earlier version of Direct X I think, unless you have used windows updates.

Title: Counter Strike problem
Post by: wezlington on June 14, 2006, 23:04

yea i updated to directx 9 earlier and it seems to be better, but still nowhere near what it was like

thanks

Title: Counter Strike problem
Post by: Sandra on June 15, 2006, 00:17

Have you tried reducing the hardware acceleration ?

Title: Counter Strike problem
Post by: wezlington on June 15, 2006, 18:25

i'm not quite sure what you mean so i assume i haven't, i told you i was bad with pcs!

Title: Counter Strike problem
Post by: Sandra on June 15, 2006, 19:49

Ok rightclick on an empty space on your desktop.
Go to properties.
Go to Settings then click Advanced in the window that opens.
Click on Troubleshoot.

A box opens that has Hardware Acceleration in it, try it at 25 % or even 50 % and see if that improves things.

Title: Counter Strike problem
Post by: wezlington on June 15, 2006, 22:07

that didnt seem to help unfortunately :( cheers though