FPS ? - mine drops in 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]

Look at your other thread.
Don't double-post !

Best Regards ...

[ivan of ASEC]

use the latest detonator drvs. and drop to 800x600
i would also sugjest more ram.

[hoodedrat]

is it playable? i mean do you really notice that your frames dropped other than what the numbers say? because frames move around a lot, but usually its not noticeable

[Bsamuels]

Ya, sounds like a video card problem. Not really a problem, just down the rez and make sure you are in 16bit color depth and not 32.... Hope this helps :confused: