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megalowmaniac

megalowmaniac

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Ok so starting 3 days ago i go ahead turn on my pc and load up Counter-strike 1.6 and am getting 10 fps! and am like Huh? and i put max_fps 100 and everything. i cant play any games the fps are super low like never before!

my setup:

Amd 64 3000+
Msi mobo
Nvidia 6600GT- bought it and installed it yesterday did not help.
420wattPSU- bought it and isntalled it yesterday did not help.
1gb ram


i think its my 3 year old 40 gb maxtor not sure. and the 40gb is the master while my 1 year old seagate barracuda 160gb is slave....


please someone help.
 
what were you normally getting? assuming you played it before okay.
is cs installed on the seagate? if not, i would advise it

EDIT: also, do you know what the temp of the graphics card and cpu is?
 
in C.S. 60fps solid now i get like 10 and lower. on COD CSS DOD.
my tempeture? shouldnt be that hot i never leave it running for more than two days straight or play a game for more than 3 hours without break. and i have a fan on side.
 
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1. What settings do you have the game at? Does performance change if yo drop the settings?
2. Which make of 6600GT did you buy (would it be MSI by any chance?) Check the temps on that :)
 
1.no.
2. no that the brand dosnt make diffrence i cant play games with the leadtek 6200 or the pny 6600gt. i think its the hdd that its dieng...

and i got a new mobo a month ago.

i am going to try and throw away my old ass 40gb hdd and making the 160gb the master and doing a fresh install.
 
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no that the brand dosnt make diffrence i cant play games with the leadtek 6200 or the pny 6600gt. i think its the hdd that its dieng...
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Yes the brand may make a difference: some makes are more commonly found to have wobbly sinks which leads to mass throttling or mass artifacing.
 
no i mean making a diffence with my whole "not being able to play games" yeah i know pny sucks but the card was $120 with a 3 year warranty...


so anyone think its most likely the hdd?
i ran virus checks. replaced psu and card. cleaned the pc. turned it off for 10 hours. put it on low settings and nothing....
 
dont think the harddrive would make a diffrence in game performance... try installing the game onto the slave harddrive and see if that works...
 
no i mean making a diffence with my whole "not being able to play games" yeah i know pny sucks but the card was $120 with a 3 year warranty...
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You seem to be missing my point: if the GPU is throttling to crap cuz its overheating you're gonna get crapall performance .... now do you understand? :)

so anyone think its most likely the hdd?
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Unlikely because you're not having much HDD activity while yer actually in game ... just while loading really (unless yer paging a lot)
 
so what in the freaking world is it? i even got a new graphics card and PSU and nothing and i have even a fan on the side. and nothing.....i cant play for crap....
any ideas?
 
Nubs.

First of all, check the available space on your HDD. If you have less than 1GB, I wouldn't be surprised if your master file table is corrupted and you need to do a clean install of everything. Secondly, before you try to run CS:1.6, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and click the Processes tab. Sort them by user name and terminate the ones you know you are not using. Write down the names of the ones you terminate, so that if one of the crashes your computer, you know not to mess with it next time you try this.

Try these and get back to me.
 
Oh shit he was right i had a bunch of crap running in process. like aswsetup and ash something deleted like 5 of them. and the lag was over...woah sweet. thanks guys. hopefully it will stay like this.
 
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end tasks randomly? well.. if you call that a solution.. :rolleyes:
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megalowmaniac said:
Oh shit he was right i had a bunch of crap running in process. like aswsetup and ash something deleted like 5 of them. and the lag was over...woah sweet. thanks guys. hopefully it will stay like this.
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I'm so sorry, but I didn't hear you, Archangel...what did you say? ;)

Also, megalow, click on Start>Run, and type in "msconfig". Click the Startup tab and uncheck some of the items in there. These are the items that your computer automatically opens when you boot into windows. Usually you can uncheck all of them, and the critical programs needed by windows will recheck themselves as required. Just remember that if programs like Steam, AIM, or Yahoo! Messenger normally start up as soon as you boot up, they will not after taking this step. You might have to manually start them through the start menu, desktop shortcut icons, or quicklaunch icons. or you can recheck them in msconfig.
 
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