How to increase framerate

The FX5200 isn't a very good card, but you shouldn't be experiencing any lag at 50FPS. Then again, since you said "it gets laggy in firefights", your FPS maybe dropping out when there's too much on-screen activity. You might wanna consider a video card upgrade, & increasing your RAM to 1GB certainly wouldn't hurt. Have you tried shutting down background programs while gaming?

"When i play counter strike source, it gets laggy in firefights, i think this is framerate related because i ran the video stress test and i got approx 50fps. I've set everything to lowest settings including the res" Answer below "1320/512 and I have a nvidia geforce fx 5200" Game Requirements "1.2Ghz processor, 256Mb of RAM and a DirectX 7 capable graphics card, while the company is recommending a 2.4Ghz processor, 512Mb of RAM and a DirectX 9 card for those who want to see the game in all its glory." TMP-Man Asus P5P800-SE P4 506 2.66Ghz @ 4100Mhz 1.525v Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 2000RPM FAN 1024MB DC Corsair DDR400 40GB 5400RPM/120GB 7200RPM HD 128MB Radoen 9500 mod 9700 @ 360/585

lower your resolution and disable vsynce 3.2GHZ Intel Pentium EE 840 1GB Dual-channel DDR2-533 RAM Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe mobo 2 EVGA E-Geforce 7800GTX Creative Soundblaster X-Fi 550W PSU

You can increase your framerate also by going to your driver control panel (I don't know how it is called with nvidia), but I mean the screen "advanced" options in configuration. There you will find a slider that goes from perfomance to quality, set it all the way to performance. Free

i've already disabled vsync and lower res to lowest. I've already also setted the image quality to highest performance. Any more ideas guys? I tried oc'ing my vid card but i dont notice alot of difference. i went from stock 240/400 to 320/475.

hmm I'd say defrag your hard drive and clean windows from all useless starting programs. Free