12-18 fps in cs 1.6??

[flyjum]

Ive got a 2.6ghz celron with 64 mb onboard vid card 256 ram 80 gb 5400 rpm hardrive And rarly see above 18 fps. At main screen it reads 60 soemtimes 70 fps. Seems it lagw with more sound and more text on screen. Also i play one 800x600 res open gl. You guys think its the comp or soemthign wrong with it?

[shadowpr]

not 100% sure, but i would say that the problem comes from not having more ram, or even a dedicated video card.

[rave]

256MB seems kinda low even for CS1.6 which basically runs on anything. its because windows XP( i assume you are on XP) takes up more than half of whatever ram you have. cs 1.6 is definately not the most demanding game but you might want to invest in a basic stand alone graphics card. dont get an expensive one if CS is all you will be playing

[tomster2300]

Video card upgrade is going to be your best bet. Most onboard video draws its ram (in this case 64 mb) from the overall system memory. So, essentially you're running your entire computer on 192 mb of ram while trying to run a game. Windows XP is always running in the background no matter what you're doing, so the computer has to dedicate an additional portion of memory to it as well, reducing your total amount even more.

Upgrading to a card with its own dedicated onboard memory (any video card) will eliminate the overall ram theft and give you more performance to boot.

How much improvement? Not sure, but I'll guarantee more than the 12-18 fps you're getting now.

Is this a prebuilt computer (did you buy it from a retailer), or did you build it yourself? Sometimes low end boards exclude an AGP / PCI-E slot and force the onboard video as your only option. In that case a ram upgrade would be your only choice unless you went for a PCI (non - e) video card. This would give roughly the same performance as an AGP card if you can still find one somewhere. AGP cards are nearly dead, so PCI may be an extinct dinosaur.

My original Riva TNT 2 card was PCI because one of my family's first computers had onboard video and lacked an AGP slot. It worked like a charm and ran the original Rainbow Six perfectly. I don't know if you could find a PCI card which would run CS, though I don't see much difference between it and Rainbow.

[flyjum]

I bought it new form best buy its compaq persario s5100nx. Dot got agp slot but have pci slots but eh. Not really worth upgrading. I think ima get maybe a stick of 250 or 512 ram and a 250 gb 7200 rpm hardrive and then buy a new comp from newegg or best buy.