I play Counter-Strike 1.6 and i used to get a steady 30 frame rate per second. However recently, my frame rate became very volatile, jumping from 60 to 9 to 38 to 4. I tried to turn vertical sync off but to no avail. Can someone tell me how to get a steady frame rate?
Windows Xp home edition
768 ram pc2700
2.7 ghz celeron
intel extreme graphics controller 82845g
You know, you are on the ‘coding’ forum, not the gaming etc 
To me it seems that vsync will not help to improve the frame rate (it can only reduce to an undermultiple of monitor refresh rate). Maybe shutdown p2p clients, triple check for virus/spyware, then disable antivirus, etc.
oops, i think i clicked the wrong link by accident and posted my comment on the wrong forum. sorry 