Counter-Strike Source

[The Godfather]

A friend installed CS:Source. It was fine when he ran the game in non-windowed mode. Then he changed it. And on the windowed screen of his game it wouldnt load, all you could see is a messed up image of his desktop (like when programs freeze) He has a bad video card (16 mb) but cs ran good with him on full screen. How can he change it back if he cant get into the game? PLS HELP

 

[Schadenfroh]

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[Juice Box]

This will solve his problem

 

[The Godfather]

what? oh yes, sorry for posting in wrong section. i just hoped to get an answer quicker.

 

[isekii]

I dont think you can run CS:S with a 16mb card.

If he ran CS Retail... that's one thing. But CS:S is based on the HL2 engine I believe.

 

[The Godfather]

yes he did. we even played online with him. then he made it in windowed mode. and his game fked up. now he is sure that is what caused it. any ideas on how he can change it back? maybe in some ini file you can point me out to?

 

[gar3555]

1) uninstall
2) reinstall
3) don't put it in windowed mode again
4) ????
5) PROFIT

 

[oogabooga]

yea, the cs:S engine scaled back pretty decently.. though i dont think -THAT- well

 

[The Godfather]

gar3555 he uninstalled it, and deleted the folder, then reinstalled, and his thing ran in windowed mode again!!

 

[The Godfather]

no ini files? i checked some, but neither said anything about windowed mode. which folder must i look in?

 

[ruffilb]

Go to the steam play games menu, right click on CS:S, Go to properties, launch options, and clear that line.

 

[The Godfather]

we dont use steam. we play in LAN

 

[0roo0roo]

16mb? maybe he should just give up

 

[suicidalpigeon]

anything with 16mb (cept harddrives) should be christmas ornaments by now.

 

[ruffilb]

Do the same thing to the CS:S shortcut then, make sure there is no like -windowed or the like after the path to the game.

 

[The Godfather]

nothin worked. i am lookin around INI files. i found one in /resource/ game UI txt but all it was is the words that it says on the game settings. like changing the letters and words in a setting. u cant change the setting itself. isnt there any =true or whatever somewhere?

 

[The Godfather]

any programs that could make the settings get edited? cmon

 

[The Godfather]

YES I FIXED IT! CS REGISTRY! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! I AM THE BEST...

 

[revnja]

So, how does that game run with that 16MB card? Pretty well?

 

[The Godfather]

i dont know, i have a GeForce 2, my friend has a 16mb card. He has all settings on low. He says it runs fine. btw: I'm getting a GeForce 6600 GT, and 1 gig of ram. too bad i have an Athlon XP 1.1 ghz and only 256mb of ram so far