My framerates on CSS drop like clockwork every 45 seconds whilst playing CSS. For about 20-25 seconds I get around 11-15 fps. It then suddenly goes up to my normal 70-80 FPS for about 45 seconds. I have: P4 3.0Ghz X850XT PE 1 Gig Ram I mean. I play FEAR pretty much maxed out. So it's not the computer. It's just this few seconds I can hardly do a thing when playing CSS. Does anyone have any idea what can be causing this? Well, I'm off to bed

you have the extract problem as my friend. i have talked about it in this forum, respond #4 and #5. http://www.computing.net/gaming/wwwboard/forum/6392.html lots of people has this problem recently. it was fine before, right? so i would think some upgrades might effects on some systems. Wins 98 SE, intel celeron 450MHZ, 128MB pc 100. 6GB HD. ATI rage 128. 24x cd-rom. 8x2x8 cd-rw. "You know what burns my ass? A flame about this high."

My guess would be your system needs more RAM... When you said u experience lag down, does ur HD light come up? If so, perhaps you'll need to add more RAM to solve that problem... TMP-Man Asus A7V classic rev 1.05 Athlon XP 2100+ @ 129x17 = 2195Mhz 1.81v 768MB PC133 RAM @ 129Mhz 2-2-2 40GB 540RPM + 120GB 7200RPM HD 128MB Radeon 9500 mod 9700 @ 300/300

TMP-Man It's not the Ram. I've tried with 2 gig (had an extra 1 gig chip lying around) and it still does the same. Rax. I wouldn't know what it was like before since I only started playing CSS 2 weeks ago. Is there anyway to get rid of the recent upgrades and revert back to an older version? Well, I'm off to bed

well, if you roll back the game, you will not be able to play online. Wins 98 SE, intel celeron 450MHZ, 128MB pc 100. 6GB HD. ATI rage 128. 24x cd-rom. 8x2x8 cd-rw. "You know what burns my ass? A flame about this high."

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