New video card

[Frankenberry]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150322

Bought this and installed it last night, but i dont feel like im getting high enough fps. In CSS i get about 60 tops on high quality. I can run Borderlands on high quality perfectly tho. I dont understand.

[Ketamine]

Right click your desktop and open the NVIDIA control panel.

under '3d settings' click 'adjust image settings with preview'.
then click the 'use the advanced 3d settings' option and hit apply

then go to 'manage 3d settings' on the left pane.

regardless if hl2 is on your list already, click 'add' and find the exe (...\Steam\steamapps\your@email.com\counter-strike source\hl2.exe)

the ones in green are important, the other ones just leave default. the yellow ones you should change to 'on' if it lets you (some cards force them on if certain settings are changed)


i got kajira and taran to do this and it fixed stuttering + gave them fps

you need to do this for every game you play if it isn't performing the way it should. i do it anyways, you ALWAYS want 'max pre-rendered' frames to 0 for fps. make sure you have the latest drivers installed from http://www.nvidia.com too

i also use a program that saves the priority level in task manager, so it always runs hl2.exe on 'high' and doesn't reset to 'normal' when hl2 is restarted.
http://www.prnwatch.com/download.html <-- the bottom of the page

PS. Since it's summer you should watch your new card's temp with GPU-Z. if it's getting too hot you can download rivatuner to control your fan speed through windows.. because hot temps will slow you down too (you don't want over 70*c during full load)

keywords for google: css, nvidia, lag, orangebox, update, suca, counterstrike source

[Taran]

What Keta said. I did this after the update and i gained all my FPS i had lost when the update came out. I prefer High Performance over High Quality.

[Frankenberry]

wow keta. thanks alot lol

[Ketamine]

wow keta. thanks alot lol

np man.

and just as an example, I've been playing APB today and for some reason it would get choppy at certain parts which isn't normal.
nvidia control panel is wack, and sometimes it drops games from the list. I went back into nvidia control panel, re-added APB (it was gone from the list) and started it back up..blam. no lag whatsoever, 100% smooth everywhere.

it's little things like this that make allllllllll the difference

though, do post back if you don't notice an improvement

[Frankenberry]

CS:S runs smoothly as hell but im still only getting about 60 fps. i dont understand.

crysis runs beautifully on medium quality but i havnt tried high.. im kinda scard.

borderlands has no problems whatsoever on high quality.

again, thx keda