Well my friend has counter strike source and he complains to me everyday that he cant play it because its so laggy. All his other games work fine! he asked me to make this thread..

Well do you guys know whats causing his lag in counter strike? Or what might cause it?
Thanks

Well, tell him to try and set all the graphic options to "Low", so the system takes less time to render...
Also, when he bought the game, there should be an insturction book that should say the system requierements...
Does he meet them?

he says its only for multiplayer

How fast is his internet connection.
And what are his system specs?

Yeah its probably his internet connection speed which would be causing the lag, especially if he has lots of programs running at the same time

but all other programs work great on his internet connection.. why should this differ?

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Originally posted by Hobbes
but all other programs work great on his internet connection.. why should this differ?

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Does he have a router? If so then the right ports are prob. not open.

well he just got a new computer a couple weeks ago. Ive seen it. It has 1000 ram and more then 2 ghz. Its not intel though. I forgot what it was. Something AMD i think.
I think he played with a setting. But which one

Verify these :

• Graphical Options (Set them to Low)
  
• The internet Connection Speed
  
• The Ram that other Porgrams are eating
  
• PC Specs
  
• The location of the servers he plays(yep, like i'm from portugal, if i play in a australian server(per example) i will get more lag then an australian..)get my idea?

Jeeze - you guys are doing this the hard way.


Check if he's using a router or firewall. If he is then he need to open the right ports and/or allow CS: S to access the internet fully

how do u check the ports?

and which ports?

well i know it's a bit late.. i'm hobbes friend.  i just opened my account.. so here are some details that might help you to help me ..
new computer - 1000 ram, amd athlon(tm) 64 processor +3000
2.01 GHz.
well.. i use firewall but sadly i dont really know how to use this progamme well and i will need some help with instruction of this prots stuff...
i dont see any reason that my computer won't handle it.. i dont use many programmes at the same time. (ofcourse not downloading programmes).

well.. sorry for my bad english.. hopefully you can help me somehow..

thanks.

Hey Flubber I see you joined the forums!

So far i got 2 friends to join the forum

Anyway i hope you enjoy it here

yup i hope so too.. well well.. it seems like there are serious guys around here.. hopefully they will help me somehow. 

Alrighty then... how fast is your connection? If you are playing on 56k then you might as well forget it.

hmm.. i have 1.5mb (internet connection). plus i dont have a router. it might be something with the firewall i guess..
sadly i will need your help.

can someone help me with opening a port to CS
i dont know what number to type there. ofcourse i tried their website and it didn't help me at all..

try to join their forum. People there have much more experiance about this then us

hmm fine i will.. well i doubt it.. anyway, can anyone try to help me ? i am not a spammer, so i won't reply here anymore, as long as someone won't help me.

thanks anyway.

Well I use a router and have a slower connection and a slower computer than you, so I'm not sure if I can help you, cos it works for me. I didn't need to open any ports for it to work.

Flubber, try reinstalling the game again. and use the default settings. Maybe you chose a wrong setting.

hmm alright. i will try it, but as i told you already, i tried to reinstall the game already - but it did not help at all..

you might have already solved it by now but i'll post anyway..

try typing these into the console (to enable console go into keyboard options, press advanced):

• cl_showfps 2  <- this will tell you your frames per second. Usually anything less than 30fps i find unplayable. cl_showfps 0 to hide it.
  
• rate  <- this sets the rate at which cs updates. Broadband gamers should use at least 15000 here (rate 15000). I'm on 1.5mb and i use 20000. 20000 = 20kb/s
  
• cl_smooth 0  <- this might help reduce the strain on your system

no actually i didn't fix it yet.. i didnt understood what cl_smooth 0 does..  (there suppose to be space between smooth to 0?)
anyway, if i have 1.5 mb internet, should i type: "rate 20000" ?
my fps is around 70-90 if i remember cerruntly so i dont find any prob with that. i put all my config at low even though i have a great video card. still - i have lags. anything else you can seggust me to do?