Boosting FPS in 1.6

Set it to Direct3d, turn vsync off, etc.

Disabling Vsync is POINTLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CANNOT USE MORE FPS THAN YOUR MONITOR CAN REFRESH!!!!!!!!!!! If you are capped at 60, going over it means you still get….guess what?! 60!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!! /thread

EDIT: Disabling Vsync also makes your games more likely to tear. I ALWAYS play with Vsync on. It’s pointless to run above vsync fps and it makes your games run more smoothly anyways.

its def the vsync; if you need more fps once you unlock it msg me i can help with the rest :]

buffalo_hunting_casey_j0nes said:

Wow, thanks for that enlightening post Kuros, I wish I could be as smart as you…/thread

 

Anyway, thank you guys for the input. I’ve been trying to get vsync off, but I got to the Nvidia control panel and I can’t find anything in there about it. Is there a command I can run or am I just not looking in the right place? On a side note, my monitor caps at a refresh rate of 75hz so would that roughly equal a 60fps cap? I’m sorry I’m a n00b, I work on cars, not computers lol.

It should be in your CS video settings.

You have a couple options to improve your game play. The first is net_graph 3.

This is going to allow you to monitor everything I’m about to tell you. Next know your computer.

If you have a dinosaur you might want to upgrade. Or if for instance you have a laptop you may be out of luck in the upgrade department.

Next off you’re going to want to make sure your rates are all good. Go to a stable server (not wcu.) preferably a very small server or a clan private server and adjust your cl_updaterate cl_cmdrate rate & fps_max.

Your optimal options with a good connection and good computer are going to be the maximum for these which are cl_updaterate 101 cl_cmdrate 101 rate 25000 & fps_max 101.

You can move the numbers around to adjust your LOSS and CHOKE. You don’t want any LOSS ever and you want to keep your CHOKE low.

In a big server choke is caused by the server not your client in most cases so don’t worry about getting choke in a big server at the beginning of a round when 15 cts are throwing nades or running around shooting.

I went over the net stuff first because if you have loss or a lot of choke it may appear that you are dropping frames but in fact you are just not receiving the proper amount of info from the server.

Once you get that optimized you can continue on to graphics settings.

First off you need to know a little bit about how your eye works. The human eye can only view about 20-30 FPS (most TV broadcasts are only 24 FPS). So why have more you ask? Smoother game play.

While you can only view 20-30 fps from your eye the game runs much smoother with less tearing and jumpy ness the higher your fps is.

A lot of people use a method called VSYNC to increase their FPS. VSYNC in a nut shell synchronizes your graphics card with your monitor.

It makes sure your graphics card doesn’t out perform what your monitor can display.

If you turn VSYNC OFF you will allow your graphics card to display as many frames as your card can physically render regardless of what your monitor can display. This can cause tearing or a slight jumpy ness but the tradeoff is a higher FPS.

If you want to see what your GPU can truly do go to your graphics control software and force VSYNC OFF for hl.exe then go to console and type: developer 1 and then type: fps_max 999

At this point depending on your graphics card you’ll notice your FPS is much higher then before. You’ll also probably notice that your game isn’t running as smooth because your FPS is constantly fluctuating depending on the graphical load in-game.

The choke point in this case is your monitor. Your monitor can only display as many FPS as it can HERTZ.

What are HERTZ you might ask? Well HERTZ is a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second. Just like a Frame Per Second.

Your monitor displays Vertical Hertz and Horizontal Hertz. For the purpose of simplicity I’m just going to cover how Vertical Hertz effects your gaming experience. If you’d like to learn more yourself you can go here: http://www.osdever.net/FreeVGA/vtiming.htm

Their are essentially two types of monitors. LCD and CRT. CRTs are the big box monitors that a lot of us have. and LCDs are the thin-light monitors that are currently in main stream production replacing the CRTs. These two monitors have their trade-offs but without diving too deep into how a CRT and LCD work I’ll just explain what the Hertz differences are.

In most cases a CRT monitor can display more Vertical Hertz then a LCD can. Most low-medium end CRTs can display 85-100Hz while higher end CRTs can display 200hz or more. LCDs are usually limited to 60-75hz with only the cutting edge LCDs coming close to 100hz.

Each resolution setting your monitor has (640×480 800×600 1024×768 etc) has a maximum Hertz value asigned to it from the manufacturer. Each monitor is different but for most part medium end CRT monitors can run 800×600 in 100hz and 1024×768 in 85hz.

So what this all comes down to is what type of monitor you have. What resolution you play your game of choice in. How many Hertz that resolution can display for your monitor.

Asuming your GPU can display 100 FPS and your monitor of choice can display 100hz at your desired resolution you can play with VSYNC ON and game at 100 TRUE FPS without any tearing or graphical loss.

I use a program called RefreshLock to force my monitor to display the maximum hertz at my desired resolution.

You can download the latest version 2.21 here: http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rl/download.html

READ & UNDERSTAND the instructions before you use the program and you should have no problems at all.

Some side effects of forcing hertz on your monitor are that you might notice your mouse sensitivity has changed. and you may have to re-size your screen to properly fit your monitor.

Asuming you did everything correctly you should have VSYNC ON, developer 0, max_fps 101, and 100 TRUE FPS in-game.

did you try fps_max 101? lol

Spam? wow..

vsynche

MasterP said:

Actually, forcing the monitor to display at a higher frequency than it is rated for will damage it. That’s why Windows will only let you go to 60Hz when you install the monitor specific driver. Forcing to something like 75Hz also voids your warranty in with some manufacturers.

Even if net_graph says that you are at 1200 fps, (Mitch already knows this but others probably don’t) that’s what the card is pushing, not what the monitor is displaying.

Turning vsync off wont damage your monitor. The thing they were warning about was forcing your monitor to display a hertz level it is not meant to. The program I was refering to doesnt push your monitor past its safe range unless you tell it to through a advanced option. There is a chance on extremely old monitors that set to the wrong setting you could cause damage. But on new monitors within the limits that your monitor is setup for you are safe.

By the way if you list your system stats I may be able to recommend a upgrade for you to make your fps constant 100 even in smoke.

My video card easily does 200+ fps in CS and CSS. I keep vsync on though. Why make the card strain to push more than the monitor can do?

Like I said if you have a monitor that can display 200 hz you can have 200 fps with vsync on. Apparently some people can’t read.

yousillyGoose said:

Just to throw this valuable information out there nvidia has some cards that the windows drivers only put out 60 fps. As mentioned above anything 60 fps and over will run completely smooth. As long as you are steadily holding at ~= 60 you will have no problems. Nothing is wrong with your settings (nvidia thought it would be a fun driver design i guess).

 

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I think its smart. Make the card strive to provide 60 steadily instead of ramping as high as possible.