Everybody knows that this game is laggier than anything and its really bloody annoying. So here i am to tell you a buncha things you can do to help improve load speed and reduce lag/disconnection frequency. I'll start of with the basics... this one is for all you doughheads out there. Close all other programs and tabs. It really annoys me when someone complains about lag/disconnections when they run 5 alts at a time, facebook, skype, youtube etc all at the same time. How dense can ya be!?
One of the major factors when it comes to a slow computer is the amount of **** you have on your hard drive, like loads of programs and toolbars and other junk... pics vids and songs... having too much of that on your computer will slow it down significantly. I suggest using the Add/Remove programs feature and get rid of as many programs as you can, keeping only the ones that you use frequently. As far as the media, try copying it to removable storage (flash drive or usb HDD) to help free up space.
You also want to adjust the settings on your computer for best performance. Do this by opening the start menu, go to my computer and right click, then click properties. This will open the system properties interface. From there click the advanced tab, then click performance settings. Under the visual effects tab, click "adjust settings for best performance". If you wont to go that extra mile to help improve your experience, click the advanced tab in that same interface, performance settings. You will see two different boxes with options regarding your processor/memory usage. Click performance in each box, then click the change button under the virtual memory section. This area allows you to create a paging file, which is an area on your hard disk that will be used as RAM. I dont suggest that you go with the maximum amount of space available, but do increase it to about 80% of the max. As you can see im running Windows XP, going about this on another operating system will be slightly different. If you're using a different os than i am you can easily find out how to create/increase paging file size on the microsoft website.
Ok moving on now... more basic stuff. If you plan to play cs for a few hours consecutively like most of us do then you will want minimal cookies/cache etc from other websites. So start off with clearing your cache and cookies (use disk clean up or C Cleaner) and also run the disk defragmenter. (some people will say that clearing cache and cookies will make it take longer to log in etc. If you are taking a long time to get logged in, hit refresh and it will load way faster). In addition to this, inevitably we will experience lag after several hours of gameplay. A quick fix to this is to simply refresh, or close your browser and run your defragmenter again. If you defragment often and aren't constantly browsing other sites while playing the game the defragment will be lightning quick every time.
Ok now let's talk browers. When i first started i was using internet explorer... thats a big no no. lol IE sucks. big time. I recommend using Opera or Chrome. There are a couple other browsers out there that are good as well, like Comodo Dragon, which is a slightly modified version of Chrome but it doesn't have the pep flash player. (that is a good thing). For you chrome users here is how to disable the pep flash player http://forum.r2games.com/showthread....sues-on-chrome
Now for flash player settings... While you're playing cs, right click on the screen. You'll get a little drop down menu, click settings. Then choose the global storage icon, and use the slider to allow the site to save an unlimited amount of data on your computer. I'm pretty sure thats as close to a client for this game as we're ever gonna get
Another thing that slows down our computers is programs that start up when we boot up our computer. So many programs start running in the background, like Skype for example... and opening your task manager to shut each of them down individually every time u turn your computer on is just annoying, and a waste of time. So here's how we get around that! its so bloody simple too, it makes life much easier, and your computer will load up much quicker as well. Open the start menu, click run. Type msconfig then hit enter.
Once you do that, you'll get a system configuration interface that pops up. Click the services tab, then check the box "hide all microsoft services", then click "disable all". This prevents other programs from starting up when you log into windows, and helps speed things up. You can choose to allow some of these programs to start when you log on windows by simply checking the boxes in the list.
I hope that some of you find this useful, and that some of you will stop being doughheads about using several programs and all kinds of other **** then wonder why u get disconnected from the server so often. Who knows, maybe ill add to this at a later date... but for now i think this is good enough. cheers
One of the major factors when it comes to a slow computer is the amount of **** you have on your hard drive, like loads of programs and toolbars and other junk... pics vids and songs... having too much of that on your computer will slow it down significantly. I suggest using the Add/Remove programs feature and get rid of as many programs as you can, keeping only the ones that you use frequently. As far as the media, try copying it to removable storage (flash drive or usb HDD) to help free up space.
You also want to adjust the settings on your computer for best performance. Do this by opening the start menu, go to my computer and right click, then click properties. This will open the system properties interface. From there click the advanced tab, then click performance settings. Under the visual effects tab, click "adjust settings for best performance". If you wont to go that extra mile to help improve your experience, click the advanced tab in that same interface, performance settings. You will see two different boxes with options regarding your processor/memory usage. Click performance in each box, then click the change button under the virtual memory section. This area allows you to create a paging file, which is an area on your hard disk that will be used as RAM. I dont suggest that you go with the maximum amount of space available, but do increase it to about 80% of the max. As you can see im running Windows XP, going about this on another operating system will be slightly different. If you're using a different os than i am you can easily find out how to create/increase paging file size on the microsoft website.
Ok moving on now... more basic stuff. If you plan to play cs for a few hours consecutively like most of us do then you will want minimal cookies/cache etc from other websites. So start off with clearing your cache and cookies (use disk clean up or C Cleaner) and also run the disk defragmenter. (some people will say that clearing cache and cookies will make it take longer to log in etc. If you are taking a long time to get logged in, hit refresh and it will load way faster). In addition to this, inevitably we will experience lag after several hours of gameplay. A quick fix to this is to simply refresh, or close your browser and run your defragmenter again. If you defragment often and aren't constantly browsing other sites while playing the game the defragment will be lightning quick every time.
Ok now let's talk browers. When i first started i was using internet explorer... thats a big no no. lol IE sucks. big time. I recommend using Opera or Chrome. There are a couple other browsers out there that are good as well, like Comodo Dragon, which is a slightly modified version of Chrome but it doesn't have the pep flash player. (that is a good thing). For you chrome users here is how to disable the pep flash player http://forum.r2games.com/showthread....sues-on-chrome
Now for flash player settings... While you're playing cs, right click on the screen. You'll get a little drop down menu, click settings. Then choose the global storage icon, and use the slider to allow the site to save an unlimited amount of data on your computer. I'm pretty sure thats as close to a client for this game as we're ever gonna get
Another thing that slows down our computers is programs that start up when we boot up our computer. So many programs start running in the background, like Skype for example... and opening your task manager to shut each of them down individually every time u turn your computer on is just annoying, and a waste of time. So here's how we get around that! its so bloody simple too, it makes life much easier, and your computer will load up much quicker as well. Open the start menu, click run. Type msconfig then hit enter.
Once you do that, you'll get a system configuration interface that pops up. Click the services tab, then check the box "hide all microsoft services", then click "disable all". This prevents other programs from starting up when you log into windows, and helps speed things up. You can choose to allow some of these programs to start when you log on windows by simply checking the boxes in the list.
I hope that some of you find this useful, and that some of you will stop being doughheads about using several programs and all kinds of other **** then wonder why u get disconnected from the server so often. Who knows, maybe ill add to this at a later date... but for now i think this is good enough. cheers
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