fps 5-25 with a 6600gt on medium settings....

[Plague27]

I have been trying to play cs:s recently after I reformatted yesterday. It ran with 1024x768 on all high and 6x AA and 4x AS above 100fps consistantly before the format. Now it runs between 5-25 fps with no aa, no as, no reflect all, and no vsync on 1024x768. Wtf is wrong? I have:
Asus K8N with AMD 64 3000+
Leadtek 6600gt
creative audigy 2 zs
maxtor 60gig SATA hdd
1024 pc3200 mushkin ram

My old setup was the above minus the audigy 2 and with a geforce 4 ti4200 and it ran this game at HIGHER settings than this at 4 x the framerate. I want to cry, really. I have the latest drivers on my videocard and soundcard. I have no idea what it could be.

 

[DrDevin]

Did you make sure to install your motherboard drivers? You install those first and then install your videocard driver and sound card driver on top of that.

 

[Plague27]

yes, I installed my nforce3 chipset 250 drivers, and my ethernet drivers. I have direct x 9.0c. I tried running hl2 now, and it is capable of running alot better than cs:s, but its still behind my pre-reformat performance. I noticed that it said i have 1024megs of RAM and a 803mhz amd cpu in the dev console while playing in hl2. Could it be the fact it thinks my amd 64 2.0GHZ cpu is 800mhz that im have problems?

 

[jondy]

yes, I installed my nforce3 chipset 250 drivers, and my ethernet drivers. I have direct x 9.0c. I tried running hl2 now, and it is capable of running alot better than cs:s, but its still behind my pre-reformat performance. I noticed that it said i have 1024megs of RAM and a 803mhz amd cpu in the dev console while playing in hl2. Could it be the fact it thinks my amd 64 2.0GHZ cpu is 800mhz that im have problems?

Yes. It sounds like your FSB multiplier is set incorrectly. Check the speed in the system tab of the control panel - if this is verified, wait 'til Asus comes around for instructions on how to set it back

Alternately, try a search - someone had this problem a while ago, admittedly with a P4 but it might be worth looking it up.

Jondy

 

[DrDevin]

It could be. I have heard of this problem. If something goes wrong like during an overclock the CPU can be set to a safe mode which changes its FSB to an extremely low number. Go into your BIOS and make sure it is set properly.

-Already posted :angry:

When your computer boots up hold down the delete key or also F1 look for a screen that says something like "press delete to enter BIOS" (or check your motherboard manual for its required key press). Once inside the BOIS look around for a menu that lets you adjust the CPU multiplier or FSB then just set it back to normal.

 

[Plague27]

The system says I have 2.01 GHZ and I have never tried to overclock.
Ok, i checked the bios, it says all is good. I ran cs:s again and changed everything to the default settings and it stays at a consistant 60-70fps. I haven't tried upping anything yet, I have to go to work, but I am gonna try it when I get back.