What the heck?!!!

[monster_munch]

I was under the impression my FPS was abit rubbish in cs:source on my 7800, operton 1.44 and so I put the resolutions and textures etc etc down from the recommended settings to get a better fps. But the FPS was always pretty rubbish 50fps avg. By chance I put my specs right up today for a laugh or whatever, all full settings and my PC does a lot better averaging max fps 75 all the time.

How does that crazy stuff work ?

 

[stickroad]

lol is this anger management day today or something?

monster_munch you better edit that sweary out before the big bad mods come along and banish you.

 

[monster_munch]

Oh, sorry :X

 

[RavenUK]

At the lower settings your CPU is the bottleneck and you GFX card is not doing much work, when your turn the settings up your CPU is less of a bottleneck and your GFX card starts to work harder pushing up the FPS.

 

[Sir Random]

Is it possible that you had v-sync enabled before, and then disabled when you raised the settings? It does seem a bit weird that your fps would go up, since the cpu bottleneck should be there at any graphics settings.

You could try lowering the settings one by one, and checking the fps each time until you find which setting(s) caused the change in fps.

 

[MystaEB]

It's a funny thing, the Source engine. A friend of mine noted something similar a while back - he gets significantly better frames when running at 1600x1200 as opposed to 1024x768 or 1280x1024.