running cs source and internet radio more smoothly

[mypcbroke]

Hi everyone, I love listening to Pandora radio and playing Counter Strike Source at the same time, but it's not working too well. Whenever I do this it runs so choppy it's unbearable, and I can't play without my jams
PC specs ;

Gateway,
Pentium 4 2.2ghz
1 gb corsair ram
radeon 9800 pro
120 gb seagate hard drive

Both processes take up 116k memory usage or so, more or less.

Anyways, anyone know how I can keep these working together better?

[Mak213]

Hello,

Upgrade to more RAM. That will be your best option to do this.

Cheers,
Mak

[mypcbroke]

Originally Posted by Mak213

Hello,

Upgrade to more RAM. That will be your best option to do this.

Cheers,
Mak

There's no way to do that without the upgrade? That's what I was askin, sorry for not being clear.

[Mak213]

Hello,

What else do you have running? Do you have AV, Firewall, MSN and a bunch of other things running as well? Your best bet might be to shut down everything but your AV, Firewall, CSS and Pandora. But it also depends on which web browser you use. Caues Firefox can crawl up in resources when in use with a site like Pandora. Since it is a heavy GFX site.

Cheers,
Mak

[mypcbroke]

Originally Posted by Mak213

Hello,

What else do you have running? Do you have AV, Firewall, MSN and a bunch of other things running as well? Your best bet might be to shut down everything but your AV, Firewall, CSS and Pandora. But it also depends on which web browser you use. Caues Firefox can crawl up in resources when in use with a site like Pandora. Since it is a heavy GFX site.

Cheers,
Mak

Yes I use firefox, the things I have running in my tray are AVG, Steam (of course), ATI driver program, windows firewall and mouseware, basically everythign I need unless shutting down the ATI will help, but it only takes up like 2k resources. Will running pandora in IE be better?

[Mak213]

Hello,

Try running the Firefox Ultimate Optimizer.

Firefox Ultimate Optimizer - Download

That should help keep the Firefox resources as low as possible. See if that helps bring up your FPS in CS:S.

Cheers,
Mak

[mypcbroke]

Originally Posted by Mak213

Hello,

Try running the Firefox Ultimate Optimizer.

Firefox Ultimate Optimizer - Download

That should help keep the Firefox resources as low as possible. See if that helps bring up your FPS in CS:S.

Cheers,
Mak

thanks I'll try that

[mypcbroke]

Didn't work at all. Frames dropped a lot even though it was taking up much less resources.

[[t..o..m]]

Do you get the same drop in frames whilst not streaming radio via the internet and playing CSS?

[Mak213]

Hello,

If running that brought your FPS down. Your only choice will be to either A) get more RAM or B) not stream music while you play CS:S.

Cheers,
Mak