Counter Strike 1.6 FPS Problems

Alright, to start off, I know this is my first post, and i registered here to see if you guys could help me.

Okay, I currently have a AlienWare Area-51 M7700 and i am having a couple of issues with Counter-Strike 1.6, the problem is that i have fps drops every now and then, i would start the game, start playing with 100fps, then boom, it drops down to 70-99, but it doesnt feel like its 99, I've noticed that i walk slower, when i pull my knife out and hold left click it only slashes once every 4-5 seconds, when i shoot theres a half a second delay between each shot and it is just like really slow in general.

EDIT* - I have also noticed that Counter-Strike 1.6 eats up ALOT of CPU, and it confuses me because a year and a half ago I had an old Compaq and ran CS at around 2-4 CPU.

EDIT2* - Whenever I get a FPS drop, right when its gonna happen my sound like spazzes out its like a weird sound, then i just walk slow and shoot slow and all the things i mention above, my GPU temp gets right under 80 (78-79) and then it just randomly goes back up, then drops again, its really irritating.

My Spec's:

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Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
Intel Pentium 4 Hyper Thread 670 3.8 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache Socket 775
3.5GB RAM PC5300 DDR2
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB Video card
240 GB HardDrive

Installed Programs:

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Adobe Photoshop CS
Aim 6
Counter-Strike
Day of Defeat
Half-Life Deathmatch
Fire Daemon Pro
Frostwire
GoldWave
Half-Life Dedicated Server Update Tool
Heroes V: Tribes of the East
Infranview
Java 6 Update 5
McAffee Security Center
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
mIRC
Mozilla Firefox
Natural Selection
No-Ip DUC
Steam
Team Fortress Classic
Valve Hammer Editor
Ventrilo Client
Ventrilo Server
Viewpoint Media Player
Warcraft III: All Products
Windows Media Player 11
WinRAR

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I also have installed other
microsoft programs
and drivers for all my hardware
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Hijack Log:

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 7:44:42 PM, on 7/9/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
H:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
H:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
H:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
H:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
H:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
H:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
H:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
H:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
H:\WINDOWS\mHotkey.exe
H:\WINDOWS\SOUNDMAN.EXE
H:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\jusched.exe
H:\Program Files\No-IP\DUC20.exe
H:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\MSC\mcmscsvc.exe
h:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\mcafee\mna\mcnasvc.exe
h:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\mcafee\mcproxy\mcproxy.exe
H:\Program Files\McAfee\MPF\MPFSrv.exe
H:\Program Files\No-IP\DUC20.exe
H:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
H:\WINDOWS\system32\slserv.exe
H:\Program Files\VentSrv\ventrilo_svc.exe
H:\Program Files\VentSrv\ventrilo_srv.exe
H:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Common\ViewpointService.exe
H:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\VIRUSS~1\mcsysmon.exe
H:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
H:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe
h:\PROGRA~1\mcafee\msc\mcuimgr.exe
H:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
H:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\helpctr.exe
H:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\HelpSvc.exe
H:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe
H:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe

O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - H:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: scriptproxy - {7DB2D5A0-7241-4E79-B68D-6309F01C5231} - H:\Program Files\McAfee\VirusScan\scriptsn.dll
O2 - BHO: Ask Toolbar BHO - {F0D4B231-DA4B-4daf-81E4-DFEE4931A4AA} - H:\Program Files\AskSBar\bar\1.bin\ASKSBAR.DLL (file missing)
O3 - Toolbar: Ask Toolbar - {F0D4B239-DA4B-4daf-81E4-DFEE4931A4AA} - H:\Program Files\AskSBar\bar\1.bin\ASKSBAR.DLL (file missing)
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Ptipbmf] rundll32.exe ptipbmf.dll,SetWriteCacheMode
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CHotkey] mHotkey.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [High Definition Audio Property Page Shortcut] HDAudPropShortcut.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SoundMan] SOUNDMAN.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AlcWzrd] ALCWZRD.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Alcmtr] ALCMTR.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [mcagent_exe] H:\Program Files\McAfee.com\Agent\mcagent.exe /runkey
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "H:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\jusched.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE H:\WINDOWS\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Steam] "h:\program files\steam\steam.exe" -silent
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Aim6] "H:\Program Files\AIM6\aim6.exe" /d locale=en-US ee://aol/imApp
O4 - Startup: No-IP DUC.lnk = H:\Program Files\No-IP\DUC20.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.lnk = H:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - H:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - H:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - H:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - H:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Unknown owner - H:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Systems Shared\Service\Adobelmsvc.exe
O23 - Service: FireDaemon Service: HLDS (HLDS) - FireDaemon Technologies Limited - H:\Program Files\FireDaemon\FireDaemon.exe
O23 - Service: McAfee Services (mcmscsvc) - McAfee, Inc. - H:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\MSC\mcmscsvc.exe
O23 - Service: McAfee Network Agent (McNASvc) - McAfee, Inc. - h:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\mcafee\mna\mcnasvc.exe
O23 - Service: McAfee Scanner (McODS) - McAfee, Inc. - H:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\VIRUSS~1\mcods.exe
O23 - Service: McAfee Proxy Service (McProxy) - McAfee, Inc. - h:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\mcafee\mcproxy\mcproxy.exe
O23 - Service: McAfee Real-time Scanner (McShield) - McAfee, Inc. - H:\Program Files\McAfee\VirusScan\McShield.exe
O23 - Service: McAfee SystemGuards (McSysmon) - McAfee, Inc. - H:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\VIRUSS~1\mcsysmon.exe
O23 - Service: McAfee Personal Firewall Service (MpfService) - McAfee, Inc. - H:\Program Files\McAfee\MPF\MPFSrv.exe
O23 - Service: NoIPDUCService - Vitalwerks LLC - H:\Program Files\No-IP\DUC20.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - H:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: SmartLinkService (SLService) -   - H:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\slserv.exe
O23 - Service: Ventrilo - Unknown owner - H:\Program Files\VentSrv\ventrilo_svc.exe
O23 - Service: Viewpoint Manager Service - Viewpoint Corporation - H:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Common\ViewpointService.exe

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If you need anything else tell me!
Please help me in any kind of way.

 

Update your drivers. Check out laptopvideo2go.com, and download 174.74. I had extremely good performance with them.

Download the Driver, along with the "Modded .inf".
Once the download is done, drag the modded .inf into the driver folder, so it "over-writes and replaces" the original .inf.
Uninstall old drivers, reboot, reinstall new drivers!

Good luck!

 

I love you, your the best man!

 

Hows about we take this to dinner, maybe a movi... ugh...




I'm drunk. Yeah, drunk.

 

I'd actually recommend downloading 175.19 instead of 174.74. I don't think people having technical issues should use beta drivers unless there are no other options. And technically 175.19 are Nvidia's most recent official release.

Sounds to me like you have the game set on software rendering. You need to go into the visual settings and make sure it is set to D3D hardware rendering instead. Otherwise your videocard is just sitting idle as your CPU does all the work.

But that said...KGANN, I thought WE were going out tonight!?

 

i had the same kind of problem until i switched drivers. my fps would go like a rollercoaster, in that, it would start at 100 then drop down to 30 then go back up to 100. it did so in a constant smooth motion, but it really screws around with gameplay. basically my fps looked like a sine wave.

 

Storm is so smart... makes me lookz retardedz...

And shhh... I got the reservations made, but you can't let everyone know! They will get jealous of my large...




Foot.

 

Ohh, I was using the OpenGL option, so i should go and set it to D3D?

 

Either OpenGL or D3D should work well. Just make sure it isn't on Software.

For consistencies sake, after downloading the 175.19 driver from laptovideo2go.com (follow KGANN's instructions above), set it to D3D and see if that fixes the issue.

 

Oh alright ill do that right now.

EDIT*
I dont see
nVidia Geforce Go 7800 GTX
I just see
nVidia Geforce 7800 GTX
is there a big difference when installing drivers?

EDIT2*
Also, should I download the Modded INF from 175.16?

 

Download the modded .inf. Is it not on the 175.19 page? (Should be right next to "Driver")

 

Nope.
LaptopVideo2Go - 175.19

 

Ouch. PM "The Forerunner", he should able to help you. Or ask about it in this thread.

 

Ok, I asked about it in the thread, but for some reason its not allowing to me to PM him otherwise i would =/

 

He may have PM turned off, but someone will help you with an .inf in there!

 

Hmm, i did a little searching and found this
v175.95 XP 32Bit it supports Go 7800 GTX, what do you think, im not really an expert.

 

Not too good of a driver. I agree with Storm, just wait for the 175.19 .inf. Did you try running CS in D3D mode?

 

Yeah, kind of screwed me over, OGL is better.

 

Hmm... that doesn't make any sense...

 

I was getting bad fps with d3d for some reason, it was around 70, and it wasnt that smooth 70 fps it was really choppy.

Ok for some reason, I just updated to 175.19 and Im getting bad results Im getting the ups and downs again, I was getting them with the other driver 174.74 but i was getting less, so this is really confusing.

 

half-life once stated a bug with their client.
I do not know if they fixed this problem or not, but I still do it and i get better performance of 60-70 fps with my no-so-top-notch ATI 9550 and Intel Pentium 4 1.7Ghz (single core!)
to get better performance follow those steps:
1. launch the game
2. minimized the game, open Task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete)
3. Go to the "Processes" tab and find "hl.exe"
4. right click on "hl.exe" and go to "set priority" and choose "low"

this will most likely fix your lag times while pulling up a knife, shooting, or changing weapons.

try it and tell me whether it helps. (i am curious to know!)

thanks.

 

Are you freaking kidding me... I was setting it to High and stuff, and then you come along and tell me to set it to low, and it actually works... wow, nows the time to figure out how to always have it set to low =P

EDIT*
Okay, why is it always when i put a message saying it helps, my fps always goes down after that, its best that i just keep my mouth shut god damn.

EDIT2* Okay Im not sure what i did or even if i did anything but my cs is running at a constant 100 fps now.

EDIT3* Nevermind.

 

Awesome, glad that worked out! +Rep for YZ for the great info!

 

Haha, Yeah Im still getting the ups and downs, its just at shorter intervals of downs so its not bad, Im reformatting tomorrow anyway lol... install steam, cs, mcaffee, and all drivers and thats all i need... maybe Aim and Frostwire also =P