Performance

[Chan]

Odd thing happens to me. No matter what screen resolution I set my video settings to in HL1 or Source, I get the same framerate, sometimes even when I set all details to max. Sorce however is always running at about 10 -15 fps which is far from playable. I'm just trying to figure out what might cause this weird situation.

Specs:
2.4 Celeron
768 Megs of Ram
7200 Speed HD
ATI Radeon 9600 SE
Vista (debating on downgrading to 2k maybe, runs about the same on XP as well)
Wifi Connection

[Hamese]

Can you test with a static connection as opposed to the Wifi? I have played on my wireless and get playable rates, but when I use a LAN line it is better and a little more stable. I only get about 30 fps anyway, so my wifi connection was probably around 20.

[Tickles]

Think it's more along of the lines of his 2.4 Celeron and the ram.. I was on a 2.8 & 768 ram and I was getting no more then 20 fps on cable connection in Source, that was with config tweaks to lower graphics etc... Now I'm on a Dual core processor over 1gig ram and never drop below 40 fps.

1+gig of ram may help you some, but I'm thinking it's also your 2.4 celeron thats bottlenecking you.

[DeafOfficeWorker]

More RAM and a better video card.

[Hamese]

[quote="Tickles";p="48278"]Think it's more along of the lines of his 2.4 Celeron and the ram.. I was on a 2.8 & 768 ram and I was getting no more then 20 fps on cable connection in Source, that was with config tweaks to lower graphics etc... Now I'm on a Dual core processor over 1gig ram and never drop below 40 fps.

1+gig of ram may help you some, but I'm thinking it's also your 2.4 celeron thats bottlenecking you.[/quote]

I'd agree with the Processor too. As far as RAM, if your machine isn't using it then more RAM will not give you anything noticeable. However, since you have Vista your machine might be maxing out 768Mb. My work machine has XP and without Steam loaded and being in a game I use a little over 600, so make sure your machine isn't having to use the pagefile as that = slooowwwww

[l3eeron]

You can never have enough horsepower...

All the ram in the world wont help unless you have a good processor tho. CPU is more important, but harder to upgrade.

A more stout video card would get you going...

The ATI 9600 se is a little sub-par for source, something like this will suit your needs ALOT better

Radeon X1650 AGP 8X 512mb GDDR3 (pretty good for $85.00!)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=2234

[Chan]

Hmm Thanks for your guys help, Imma try to borrow someones pentium 4 that is 2.4 ghz, I know that would run more better for games, since celeron is the budget model. I never run anything other then steam if I am running steam as well, so the memory issue isn't as big, but yes, a 1 gig would be nice. Right now my Vista Computer score is 3.1 with my processor being the 3.1 and the 'Gaming Graphics' being a 3.2 So thanks for your sugestions and all.

BTW I had a simular problem to this before, but it turned out that all the cooling gel from my procesor to heat sink flaked off or with repeated rebuilding it more or less was non exsistant. My computer still ran, but very slow. When I bought a tube of the gel, my performance went up like crazy and could play my games again.


Holiday season is around the corner, so maybe I can do something with that. Thanks and here's hoping to seeing you all in TV's TF2 server's soon!

[sgt stutter]

As Hamese stated, using Vista will suck up all your memory, you should have a min. of 1gig when using Vista.

[Clay Pigeon]

If I were you I would wipe your OS partition and install xp...