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Old 07-20-2008, 11:01 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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
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Both processes take up 116k memory usage or so, more or less.

Anyways, anyone know how I can keep these working together better?
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Old 07-20-2008, 11:06 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Upgrade to more RAM. That will be your best option to do this.

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Old 07-20-2008, 11:11 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Upgrade to more RAM. That will be your best option to do this.

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

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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.

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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?
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Old 07-20-2008, 11:44 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Try running the Firefox Ultimate Optimizer.

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

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Try running the Firefox Ultimate Optimizer.

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

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thanks I'll try that
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Didn't work at all. Frames dropped a lot even though it was taking up much less resources.
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Default Re: running cs source and internet radio more smoothly

Do you get the same drop in frames whilst not streaming radio via the internet and playing CSS?
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Old 07-23-2008, 08:11 PM   #10 (permalink)
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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.

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