The Best XP/Vista FPS Guide!

Welcome to the ultimate XP and Vista FPS increase guide.

Some of these steps you will have come across before and there are many more techniques that I could post up and if requested, I will put them up at a later date.

I do not take any responsibility for you using this and its entirely up to you if you want to use this guide or not, it has been tested and has worked before with no problem but please keep cautious.

This step-by-step guide is guaranteed to give you the extra FPS you need, every little bit of FPS increase can improve your overall aim and skill ingame, this is for Counter-Strike: Source but some parts will work on other games such as Call of Duty 4 and Counter-Strike.

Please note, this was not all made by myself and credits will be given at the end.

My experiences with using this guide, it has given me alot for FPS that what I expected I could get out of this PC, yeah it decreased the ingame quality of your game but it is much smoother and more enjoyable.

» Setting Launch Options

-console -heapsize RAMHERE -dxlevel 81 -nojoy -noipx -w resWIDTHhere -h resHEIGHThere -noforcemparms -noforcemaccel -noforcemspd -refresh 100

-heapsize 262144 for 512mb of RAM
-heapsize 524288 for 1024mb of RAM
-heapsize 1048576 for 2048mb of RAM

To enter the launch options, Right click on the steam icon in the system tray > Games > Right click CSS > Properties > Set launch options

» Using the latest FPS config

Download the FPS config in the link below.

http://rapidshare.com/files/135019965/autoexec.cfg.html

This is the most highly rated FPS config out on the internet today, made by the man himself dT and its his latest version for Counter-Strike: Source.

1) When you have downloaded the config, save it to your desktop.

2) Put the config in the following location, which is stated below:

Go to C: drive > Program Files > Steam > Steamapps > Username > Counter-Strike Source > Cstrike > Cfg

You can test if this has worked by loading up Counter-Strike: Source and opening your console. If the config has worked then it should say the following in the console window.

"dT Legal FPS Config Version 2.3"

» Ingame Settings

There are loads of ways that you can loads of FPS out of just from changing a few gfx settings ingame and anyone can do them.

1) Load up Counter-Strike: Source
2) Click "Options", then click "Video" tab and do the following:

Resolution: 640x480

3) Click the advanced button

Set everything to low and take all AA, AF and other high settings off.

Once you have done this, click Apply and then OK and connect.

» Remove Unwanted/Unused Programs

1) Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > click once on the program you wish to remove and then click the Remove button.

» Clean Up Your Computer

1) Start up your "run" window, by doing the following

Start > Run

2) In the Run window, type the following command, then click OK.

"cleanmgr /sageset:50"

When you have done that, the "Disk Cleanup" window will appear, check all the boxes except the bottom two and click OK.

» Defragmenting your PC

This will free up alot of space on your computer and clean alot of broken and useless files, this will free up for space for other programs such as Counter-Strike: Source and the other games.

1) Start > All Programs > Accessories > Systems Tools

At this point, you will then see the "Disk Defragmenter" click this and select the hard drives and click "Deframent"

Note: This could take quite along time so please be patient and it is also a very important stage.

» Switch To Classic Start Menu

To change it, right click on the Start button > choose Properties > click on the Start Menu tab > Check Classic Start Menu

» Dont use a wallpaper

Right-click on a blank area of the desktop > choose Properties > click on the Desktop tab > in the area that says "Background" choose (None) > to change the color of the desktop, click on the arrow next to "Color:" and pick your color > click Apply and OK.

» Set CPU Priority

This is a very important step and can give you up to 50+ FPS increase with a couple of clicks.

1) Open up Counter-Strike: Source
2) Tab out of the game, press "Ctrl+Alt+Del" and your task manager will appear.
3) Click on the "Processors" tab and right click on "hl2.exe" and select "Set Priority" and click "High"

You can now close the Task Manager, also make sure you're in a game when you do this or it will take ages to connect to a server with it already on.

Note: You will have to keep doing this everything you connect because it will just set back to normal everything you close Counter-Strike: Source.

» Credits

I pay full respect to the original creators of these configs and previous guides, with their great work and my writing, there is now a new Guide that can give you even more fps.

Big thanks to dT for his great legal and public FPS config
Big thanks to TweakHound for their great XP Tweaking guide

Note: Most of these can be used on Vista but it is intetionally for Windows XP.

Enjoy and please give me all your feedback!

You made this? ;o

I didnt make the config, but I got the steps all sorted. Just trying to help most people out, even if you have loads of fps, this can get even more than you want.

http://www.thesgl.com/forums/topic/146226/

Vista Performance Tweaks

Just read through that and was pretty impressive, could be a possible merge together for the ULTIMATE guide

Good read and very good job.

that's just about the most constructive thing you've posted. TY aleXX

Not a problem buddy, at least you're not flaming x

Apart from missing out windows services, windows program deletion, driver optimiation (both tweaked downloads and control panel setttings), more extensive PC Cleaning and process terminating you seem to have got all the points that more standard gamers can do easily. wp

I swear this was taken from the ed forums

You'll find that I put on the ED forums also.

I swear this was taken from google.

no, our alex is merely a god

good post

kinda standard dot dot dot btw AlphA's fps config > dT's its hated more because it makes the game look like super mario on the snes.

^ Link ?

http://www.gotfrag.com/css/forums/thread/247999/

its what dunnolol posted