XP 1800+ / Geforce 3 / BAD FRAMES???

[ApoCz]

I have recently been playing Counter-Strike which runs on quite an old game engine, I have a XP 1800 + a Geforce 3 and can get 99 fps, but it drops down to 40-50 shakey in a tiny bit of action. I'm sure that isn't right. To be more specific I have a Asus Geforce 3 Deluxe 8200, a AM7266 Asus Motherboard and a AMD 1800+ XP Cpu. I have tried all kinds of drivers - old and new. Still no luck. Can someone please help me or direct me to someone or somewhere I could find some help. Thanks

[smelanson]

I'm not completely sure but, personally I wouldn't worry about 40-50 FPS, thats pretty good

[InnovaZero]

When you know you have a sweet system and know it can do way more, you should worry. First don't download **** loads of drivers and try to run that way, old drivers get left over and create problems if too many come by.

So download det. destroyer and get rid of everything, download 23.11 or 28.90's and put them in a newer folder named Nvidia. Go to control panel and uninstall the display drivers and restart. When new installation comes up, click the folder you placed the drivers in and install, now restart. If you have a VIA board, get latest 4 in 1's. Make sure AGP 4x is on, as well as fast writes and side band addressing. Also make sure you don't have AA or Antstophic(sp?) Filtering is on.

[Rugor]

A couple of points

First, that motherboard does not have a Via Chipset. It has the AMD 761/Via 686B hybrid chipset. Asus uses a code on their motherboard naming conventions A7 for Athlon (AMD K7) compatible, M for AMD chipset, 266 for Memory Bus speed. So you can't use VIA 4in1 drivers, but rather an AMD miniport driver and whatever IDE drivers Asus provides for the southbridge.

Second, sideband addressing has been disabled because it is incompatible with all GeForce cards. Most motherboards won't even allow you to enable it when using any Geforce Chipset.

Anisotropic Filtering is also a performance killer, especially for NVidia chipsets which suffer more from it than ATI based cards.

[apocalypse]

don't worry about low frame rates on older games. since half-life/counter strike are based on the quake 2 engine, the newer hardware does not work as well with the old technology, while they do work well with new advances in updated 3d engines.

i also get low frame rates in both of those games (about 80-95 fps), despite getting 180 fps in quake 3 at 1024x768 with 32 bit color.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

make sure you havent got any frame limiters enabled in config files etc, althouhg they do come in handy in net games for keeping ping in check, they do tend to take some of the gleam off your nice spanking new ninja b@stard rig, and megabucksgraphics card.

For specific games id suggest checking out fan forums etc.

--Jakk:t