FPS 500-900 spikes

[stuartjk]

I have just put my server on a (slightly inferior to my old) box to run on it's own. It runs nice but the FPS is constatly spiking between 500 and 900. The CPU is running about 20% but I can't seem to calm those spikes. Using FPS_MAX 1000 and got windows media player open (without this it spikes 50-500) the server plays ok, minor graphics slips, but I'm putting it down to this. any ideas? thanks

BTW I am running this on a AMD duron 1200 with 386mb ram on XP. the CPU and ram are both comfortable, CPU running around 15% max and RAM with around 100m free. I am however running this using the onboard VGA adapter, I do have a Geforce 4 mx440 plugged in but they aren't much good anyway. would gfx card make any difference.

[Thormx]

I thought the highest possible Fps_Max was 600

that might be part of the problem?

[c2um3]

my server run's @ 999.65 fps win media player cause it 2 become really iratic and jump.. it's not very stable like that so i use the fpsboost.exe u may wanna try that 1 and see if it helps with your spikes

[stuartjk]

beaut cheers c2um3

fired it up this morning. with FPS_MAX set at 1000, still erratic spiking. Change to FPS_MAX 600 and seems steady at 520 but regular troughs around 3 mins apart to 200, will see how plays tonight, filled my server up last night so will hopefully do the same tonight see how it goes.

[c2um3]

jus curious what are your server specs?? cpu ram chipset and all that jaz

[stuartjk]

not right good made. amd duron 1200 lex730e ultra mobo 386mb ram, XP sp2. runs beautiful though on 7 man (upload limit) had 4 on last night, not filled up yet. controlled remotely using windows rdp. got it spot on so far and does what it needs to. using sv_downloadurl to combat upload issues as well.

Steady 520 now. thanks for the help