only since yesterday my fps drops to 20/25 when i'm fighting a rine. and even when my fps is back to 85. the game is a bit choppy. i have a good ping of about 20/30 so thats not the problem. my choke is almost always 0 and my loss too. this problem occured only since yesterday. there weren't any changes made this week right???
plz help get my game running again

pc specs:

amd athlon XP 2000+
512 mb ram
gf4 mx440 64mb updated drivers
cpu usage on steam 2%
no programs on in background

is your ping still low even in those gunfights?

are you playing on the same servers / same maps?

(there are some maps (particularly some of the CO maps) that generally have bad effects on every one's FPS)


you say your vid drivers are updated - did you update just before the fps problems occured? if so, might be worth downgrading to a slightly older version

no i had the drivers from 1st of april from nvidia. after the problem i used detonator drivers. but the problem remained. and i don't play that many co maps. i know some decline the fps. but i have the problem in all maps. all servers, at all times of the day. and my ping is stable.. so i have a low ping in the fights too. any ids?

does it happen with any other mods?

quickest thing to try is just a straight uninstall - reinstall

not entirely sure - i'll do some digging - but if you havn't changed any thing yourself, then chances are some thing else has changed... :X

Run ad aware and spybot, then update your virus scanner and scan for a virus, if you dont find anything, what have you installed lately? A new program may be hogging cpu cycles and causing fps droppage. Also run a trojan scan.

i do that weekly. did it yesterday. didn't find anything

check what services are running on startup

i've done that. and it is nothing strange. and nothing that costs lots of mbram.. so i've got enough to spent on hl...