FPS ? - mine drops suring action

[gwatts]

Alright all you FPS tweakers out there I have a question for ya's.

When I am playing Counter-strike:

If I stare at a wall or some tranquil scene I get 80-99 FPS (fps_max is set to 100)

If there a few people in my view, FPS drops to 60's.

If the bad guys round the corner and all hell breaks loose, FPS drops to high 20's.

Now I figure some drop is to be expected, since a scene with 6-12 people running around shooting fully automatic weapons is going to tax the computer system, but here's my question: can any of you pinpoint a compnent that could be the bottleneck causing such a large drop in my fps during action, or is this normal with my/similar setup?

I see so many people boasting of their 80-100 FPS's - are they talking about when they are stare at the wall too or even when they are in action? What are your experiences?

My Specs:

Abit KT-100 board
Athlon 700 Mhz
128 MHz PC100 RAM
Win 98
Elsa Erazor X2 (GeForce 256, 32 MB RAM)
Soundblaster Live OEM
I am running in OpenGL at 1024x768

Thanks ;) ,

Lt. O'Neil

P.S. I am guessing it could be my video card, not even a GeForce 2. But I'd like to hear from some of you.

[NDD]

When you're the only player, CPU has only few calculations to perform, and the videocard handles the graphics quite well.
But when there're dozen of bad guys running and shooting all over the place - CPU has to calculate the movement and the AI of every one of them, and only then the data is being transferred to the videocard for output.
I guess just for the test you can try it with faster CPU, I'd say even 1GHz T-Bird will make the difference.
Of coz, make sure you're using good drivers, I'm using v12.90 with Win98SE and v22.80 with WinXP.
Make sure you have Vsync disabled.

Best Regards ...

[[shawn@localhost /home]#]

actually CS is a multplayer game so the people you see are not AI but still, seeing 5 people shooting instead of just looking at the wall is comparable to you sitting on the couch sleeping then 5 women come up to you and start nagging you at all once

[Lord Sech]

I almost overlooked one of the bigger problems...your ram. Ram is something that can make a major difference in a game like CS. I had 128 (now 512) and the ram what was holding me back.Ram is so cheap now, it wont hurt to buy a stick of 256.

As soon as the ram was in and configured why frame rate locked except for a 1 or 2 up and down. I get about and average 80-90fps.

-Lord Sech