Help please
 

my fps is counter-strike will change from 100 down to 20-30 randomly. does anyone know why it's doing this and how to fix it??

edit: i changed your title to try'n get you s'more responses. in general, a description of the problem in the title will attract more answers ;)

one of two things....

Install your motherboard agp drivers, because if you haven't it thinks it's a pci slot and bandwidth usage kills it.

Update your video drivers

might just be rendering more stuff.

try turning vertical sync off.

that usually helps in cs.

i think it might be "ms" what does that mean

ms?? microsoft???

it's proly just rendering more stuff as was said, in T2 my frames vary anywhere from 150 looking at a wall to 30 in heavy action. i'd be scared if it only read one FPS constantly i would think it was lieing to me:hmm:

well, on mine it maxes out @ 99. doesnt move up or down.

yeah you can change it in console by typing "max_fps 101"

im pretty sure thats it

im pretty sure thats the code i mean

Ensure programs aren't running the the background that use an unpredictable amount of resources (i.e. Kazaa Lite) or SETI@home. And it may just be you have an older vid card that slows down when there are a lot of folks on-screen. If it's getting unwatchable (NTSC Video, or standard TV in the US, is only 30fps) try closing more programs and lowering your HL resolution.
Or update video drivers if you dare.

what happens or is happening when the FPS drops?

are you staring at a wall?

are you being hit by 3 smoke grenades?

what kind of system are you running as well would help

A friend of mine had this problem with his recently built asus system. The problem was actually his motherboard battery... yes the battery. He was running an a7n8x-d board which have had problems with their battery's, but odd to find out that was the actual problem.

have you played around with the antialiasing function and those things in the video card settings?

MS = Milliseconds..?
are you looking at your ping instead of your framerate...? That'd be one reason why it could change so much.

ok yeah ms is ms forget about that it's not that

but it's not my vid card cause i just got a radeon 9000 pro 128mb

and my res is 800 x 600

strange that you are seeing that, what speed processor are you running?

Try something for me, type in console ATI_Npatch (I think thats the command) and if its 1, change it to 0

This is considered Trueform for ATI, it was a problem with all ATI Cards back in version 1.3 I dont know if it is still an issue, but you would be able to tell if you just took a look at the Glock Model, it would be rounded instead of Squared off.

I never understood why Valve put this option into the newer versions of HLm it even made my friends comp with a 9700 and a 2100+ clocked at 3000+ speeds crawl to like 40 FPS