Still Cant Get Good Fps? Lag? Come Here
zoda
Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7175Members
Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7175Members
<div class="IPBDescription">there can be issues with windows too.</div> This is a long post, but reading it should fix many of your issues if you are running on windows.
Part 1: Why do I lag so much compared to others with similar specs?
There could be many reasons.
The simplest one is that you are running in Software mode or have too high of a resolution. while playing any half-life game go to configuration>video> video modes and select opengl or direct3d from the top, this is a different and much better mode to run the game on as software mode doesn't use your video card, RAM, or CPU too its full power. another good thing is to try a lower resolution. If you are trying to run on 1000x800 or whatever the really high ones are and your computer is a few years old you are probably making a bad choice. Go to 600x480 or at least 800x600, if problems still happen with both after everything I tell you in this post is done try 400x300.
Make sure you run Disk Defrag, a virus scanner, and ad-aware regurally.
another common problem is other programs in the background using up your system too much so that your game will not have enough CPU usage. You can view some programs running by pressing ctrl+alt+delete, but others are hidden. I recommend downloading the program enditall to see every program your system is running. It allows you to get rid of many programs running on your system with one click. you can get it here: <a href='http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall' target='_blank'>http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall</a> before selecting "kill" or "kill all" find out what every program is and make sure it is safe to kill it. this site has a list of many things: <a href='http://WWW.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm' target='_blank'>http://WWW.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm</a>
If you have no idea what it is, lock it so it will be safe. Also do searches if you cant find the programs on that list.. I have found other things not listed there on google. You may even find some nasty spyware on your system that goes undetected by ad-aware and programs like it, delete those **obscenity**! There may even be programs you want to disable all the time (by going to start>run>msconfig>startup and un-checking the boxes of programs you don't want to auto start. Just remember, messing with this is dangerous if you don't know what you are doing, but as long as you find out what everything is first you should be safe.
make sure if you have a video card that you disable your on board video (if present) by right clicking the my compute icons and selecting device manager. Under the display adapters it will list your video card and maybe on board video, if it has another one make sure you click properties and disable it.
Yet another problem can be that your video card settings are too detailed for your slow system. If it's old you want to go into your display properties and under direct3d change mitmap level to "blend" or one of the higher performance ones depending on how bad you run, go to opengl and disable anisotropic filtering and turn vsync OFF by default.
go to dxdiag in run and test direct3d and direct draw, both should work fine if your drivers are good. I needed to install NV32 over the 42 ones for it to work.. also it will say aprox. memory "_" MB and it should say how much your card really is... (most likely 32MB, 64MB or 128MB)
If you have errors there and are on a nvidia card try reinstalling the drivers from nvidia.com or if it still wont do it, uninstall those ones and go to and older version, because they put beta version up which don't always work.
If you don't have any video card you may not be able to get opengl, just go to your counter-strike config and try direct3d or software mode.
make sure all your drivers are up to date, windows is up to date and you have the minimum requirements. One thing many people overlook while upgrading their systems is how low their Power Supply is, If you don't know open up your case, unscrew it and look at it. many new video cards need 250Watts, many older computers have less than that.
last off go into your configuration for natural selection and turn off high detail graphics
See the pinned topic about low FPS for many tweaks to Natural selection which will improve your performance.
part 2. OpenGL wont work/ video card not performing right
If you receive the message "the selected OpenGL mode is not supported by your video card" and you have a newer card please read below:
do the following:
go to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM and click the file named Opengl32.dll, right click it and select copy. now go to
C:\Sierra\Counter-Strike\gldrv (for Counterstrike retail) or C:\Sierra\half-life\gldrv (half-life) and delete the opengl32.dll from there, right click and select paste, this should copy the opengl32.dll from windows/system to this location
now while still in the gldrv folder: double click drvmap and edit it to say only the following:
"Default Default
3dfxgl.dll 3Dfx Mini Driver
gldrv/opengl32.dll opengl32"
the last part just adds a selection to the part of video config that says "opengl driver" make sure you select opengl32. you can name it whatever you want by changing the last word, but opengl32 will work fine.
I did that and now OpenGL will run, however I am not sure if that is what fixed it.. If that doesn't work reinstalling HL or CS may be the only solution that can be a problem if you don't want to lose maps though.
**you have to go into video mode in Half-life or Counter-strike, Natural-selection or whatever you want to play and select the video modes resolution and set it to "geforce 4" or whatever you wrote in the drvmap.txt after "gldrv/opengl32.dll" it will not work if you just keep trying to go the console and didn't change the video mode settings in the exe.**
.**there is no natural selection folder named gldrv, it is a file for the main game., so don't go looking in there.**
I found this out by searching the counter-strike forums at the website and found someone who said to put that text in the drvmap text and another person in a totally different post saying that the opengl dll was probably messed and to replace it.
The minimum requirements for Natural-Selection are real, they just don't consider people who have many background programs or Unhealthy PC's (bad drivers, hardware conflicts, don't run anti virus or defrag.)
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That was a lot, I hope this gets pinned because this will help many people. You would be surprised how many people over look these things., not everyone is a computer nerd.
good luck.
*I fixed a bunch of spelling errors with edit that I didn't notice before lol*
Part 1: Why do I lag so much compared to others with similar specs?
There could be many reasons.
The simplest one is that you are running in Software mode or have too high of a resolution. while playing any half-life game go to configuration>video> video modes and select opengl or direct3d from the top, this is a different and much better mode to run the game on as software mode doesn't use your video card, RAM, or CPU too its full power. another good thing is to try a lower resolution. If you are trying to run on 1000x800 or whatever the really high ones are and your computer is a few years old you are probably making a bad choice. Go to 600x480 or at least 800x600, if problems still happen with both after everything I tell you in this post is done try 400x300.
Make sure you run Disk Defrag, a virus scanner, and ad-aware regurally.
another common problem is other programs in the background using up your system too much so that your game will not have enough CPU usage. You can view some programs running by pressing ctrl+alt+delete, but others are hidden. I recommend downloading the program enditall to see every program your system is running. It allows you to get rid of many programs running on your system with one click. you can get it here: <a href='http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall' target='_blank'>http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall</a> before selecting "kill" or "kill all" find out what every program is and make sure it is safe to kill it. this site has a list of many things: <a href='http://WWW.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm' target='_blank'>http://WWW.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm</a>
If you have no idea what it is, lock it so it will be safe. Also do searches if you cant find the programs on that list.. I have found other things not listed there on google. You may even find some nasty spyware on your system that goes undetected by ad-aware and programs like it, delete those **obscenity**! There may even be programs you want to disable all the time (by going to start>run>msconfig>startup and un-checking the boxes of programs you don't want to auto start. Just remember, messing with this is dangerous if you don't know what you are doing, but as long as you find out what everything is first you should be safe.
make sure if you have a video card that you disable your on board video (if present) by right clicking the my compute icons and selecting device manager. Under the display adapters it will list your video card and maybe on board video, if it has another one make sure you click properties and disable it.
Yet another problem can be that your video card settings are too detailed for your slow system. If it's old you want to go into your display properties and under direct3d change mitmap level to "blend" or one of the higher performance ones depending on how bad you run, go to opengl and disable anisotropic filtering and turn vsync OFF by default.
go to dxdiag in run and test direct3d and direct draw, both should work fine if your drivers are good. I needed to install NV32 over the 42 ones for it to work.. also it will say aprox. memory "_" MB and it should say how much your card really is... (most likely 32MB, 64MB or 128MB)
If you have errors there and are on a nvidia card try reinstalling the drivers from nvidia.com or if it still wont do it, uninstall those ones and go to and older version, because they put beta version up which don't always work.
If you don't have any video card you may not be able to get opengl, just go to your counter-strike config and try direct3d or software mode.
make sure all your drivers are up to date, windows is up to date and you have the minimum requirements. One thing many people overlook while upgrading their systems is how low their Power Supply is, If you don't know open up your case, unscrew it and look at it. many new video cards need 250Watts, many older computers have less than that.
last off go into your configuration for natural selection and turn off high detail graphics
See the pinned topic about low FPS for many tweaks to Natural selection which will improve your performance.
part 2. OpenGL wont work/ video card not performing right
If you receive the message "the selected OpenGL mode is not supported by your video card" and you have a newer card please read below:
do the following:
go to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM and click the file named Opengl32.dll, right click it and select copy. now go to
C:\Sierra\Counter-Strike\gldrv (for Counterstrike retail) or C:\Sierra\half-life\gldrv (half-life) and delete the opengl32.dll from there, right click and select paste, this should copy the opengl32.dll from windows/system to this location
now while still in the gldrv folder: double click drvmap and edit it to say only the following:
"Default Default
3dfxgl.dll 3Dfx Mini Driver
gldrv/opengl32.dll opengl32"
the last part just adds a selection to the part of video config that says "opengl driver" make sure you select opengl32. you can name it whatever you want by changing the last word, but opengl32 will work fine.
I did that and now OpenGL will run, however I am not sure if that is what fixed it.. If that doesn't work reinstalling HL or CS may be the only solution that can be a problem if you don't want to lose maps though.
**you have to go into video mode in Half-life or Counter-strike, Natural-selection or whatever you want to play and select the video modes resolution and set it to "geforce 4" or whatever you wrote in the drvmap.txt after "gldrv/opengl32.dll" it will not work if you just keep trying to go the console and didn't change the video mode settings in the exe.**
.**there is no natural selection folder named gldrv, it is a file for the main game., so don't go looking in there.**
I found this out by searching the counter-strike forums at the website and found someone who said to put that text in the drvmap text and another person in a totally different post saying that the opengl dll was probably messed and to replace it.
The minimum requirements for Natural-Selection are real, they just don't consider people who have many background programs or Unhealthy PC's (bad drivers, hardware conflicts, don't run anti virus or defrag.)
---
That was a lot, I hope this gets pinned because this will help many people. You would be surprised how many people over look these things., not everyone is a computer nerd.
good luck.
*I fixed a bunch of spelling errors with edit that I didn't notice before lol*
Comments
I put that whole thing under the post about low FPS, but since people are still asking questions about it I think it would be good to put mine there or at least make a topic where I can ad it to it at th ebeging so people will read it..., no one reads page 2 anymore, I don't care about getting credit for a pinned message, I just want to help people and be praised for it. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->