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"So I tried an experiment..."

CS:Source on 1024x768, medium-high settings, came out 30/40fps average:

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Wish BF2 would do the same thing :(

Water looked good, and the terrain was a bit better, but still cardboard buildings and awful people so no point putting it up really:

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:( oh well when you upgrade everything will be ok.

I have BF2 all on lowest possible, with the distance at 60%. Things do tend to pop-in, but it's not so bad. It's easier to alter the settings in CS after the graphics go wrong - I have to reinstall with BF because it's impossible to navigate, but now I know it's the AA that does it in.

And I still suck at it.

You should be pretty damn pleased with that, set texture filtering to biliner and make sure v-sync is off they will give you a performance boost if they are not set like that already.

i'm sure you could get more out of battlefield too, but the most important thing is the draw distance otherwise you have a serious handcap against everyone with it set higher.

1024x768, high models, high textures, medium/high everything else. The AA really fluffs my system up though, so that was kept low. Why didn't I ever do this before?

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Ran at about 40/50 fps with the slight hiccup.

EDIT: compared to: [URL]http://www.pocketmonkey.co.uk/images/cs_800x600.jpg[/URL]

Which is how I used to run it.

That's what I was hoping for. Not sure why I needed to upgrade though, when the 360 is round the corner.

But the oppurtunity was there, and I took it.

I'm a dirty criminal :(

Still YAY though,

Emitime wrote:
> Soon to be:
> 3ghz
> 1gb RAM
> Geforce 6800

Thats not a bad system though it should last for a while.

Emitime wrote:
> 3ghz.
> 512mb RAM.
> ..
> Fx 5200

I'm on the same, except 2.66GHz, 64Mb GfX Go Nvidia laptop card.

Will look at the high settings in a sec.

Kinda. Coulda been smoother though.

3ghz.
512mb RAM.
..
Fx 5200

Soon to be:
3ghz
1gb RAM
Geforce 6800

I know it's not super amazingOMG!, but I couldn't spend too much without my parents saying no, then making me spend less.

The thing about CS to me is that medium-high settings don't look that much difference from low ones. Apart from AA and AF.