Increasing FPS in Half Life

[Mr. Black]

I'm only getting 20-30fps on average.

Suggestions?

(Specs are in sig)

[MxxCon]

at what resolution and graphic settings?

[havyn]

good god, i get 30-40fps on my poopty p3 500 w/ a GF2MX....1024x768 16-bit OpenGL

he must be using D3D or something...

[Mr. Black]

at what resolution and graphic settings?

1024x768 16bit OpenGL

[SOOPAH256]

hey mr. black

are you sure you're not just experiencing lag? like, for me, i like to keep my downloading programs running and winamp playing in the background...yes it does slow down the gameplay. but every once in a while i like to just let go and not give a [crap] about dying.

[Mr. Black]

SOOPAH,

I close everything running before playing any game, including tray apps.

No, it's not lag. Latency in the game is 50-70.

[SOOPAH256]

hmm...that's pretty strange then. i'm running PIII450 w/ 384MB SDRAM and ATI 64MB DDR Radeon. but i get around the same FPS.

i assume that you're using the latest drivers for your video card?

~EDIT~

lol, i'm going to play right now.

[Mr. Black]

40.72 WHQL. Besides the betas, they are the latest.

[Dan.Varga]

well the GeForce 4 mx isnt the greatest card but u should be gettin better than that ive got my GeForce 3 at 100fps solid .. dont know what to tell u kill AA and vertical sync that should boost fps a bit

[Dashel]

Is this happening in a specific mod since I doubt you are referring to HL (the single player game).

This can be quite normal depending on the mod in question (ie. CS during smoke gren, Natural Selection, etc)

[SOOPAH256]

well the GeForce 4 mx isnt the greatest card but u should be gettin better than that ive got my GeForce 3 at 100fps solid .. dont know what to tell u kill AA and vertical sync that should boost fps a bit

100fps? i thought CS maxed out at 60?

i kinda remember a thread about how to increase it. is that what you did?

[Mike Frett]

Hmm, I get a solid 71fps with some file adjustments maybe more.

Athlonxp 1700+

G4ti 4400

512mb 2100ddr

Audigy 1

etc...

[persianpsycho]

try setting the max fps in half life, i used to get 60, but then i set it to the max which is like 99 or somethin, and it was a constant 99. I haven't played in like 5 months, so im not sure this is right, but the console command is somethingl like: fps_max x, i don't remember the max, and to see what it is type: cl_showfps 1 or you can do those netstat things too.

[SOOPAH256]

the console command is somethingl like: fps_max x, i don't remember the max, and to see what it is type: cl_showfps 1 or you can do those netstat things too.

i tried using the "cl_showfps 1" command.

i like how it is in the upper left corner, cause "net_graph 1" cover's my money, so it can be hard to read sometimes. but it changes so fast that i can barely read what it says.

oh well...nevermind. :p

[Polishrob]

lower res to 800x600. That should help a little.

[persianpsycho]

graphic tweaks... check that out, hopefully that'll help.

[dysektor]

lower res to 800x600. That should help a little.

I don't think a GeForce 4 would need to lower its res to get a high fps. It's Counter-Strike... running on an old Half-Life engine. He should be getting max. The only thing I could think of is your drivers. Try different ones.