Play css on this graphics?

[Hellotalkie]

I just bought a new laptop with a centrino duo t2050 (1.6ghz). I was wondering if I could play css on its graphics. It has a intel accelerated graphics 950. I know it wont be outstanding, but will I beable to get it to run above 20fps? I was thinking on very low settings. I can up my ram since right now I have 512mb and I can get 1gb

 

[BobDaMenkey]

You're going to have to run it at really low settings to get a playable rate out of it. I've got a buddy that plays CSS on a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 on low settings and at 10x7, and it still gets choppy(drops below 20fps). Expect performance to be a bit worse than that.

Run the stress test and see how well it handles it.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

doubt you'll be able to play, whats the resolution on your screen?
but i really doubt you'll be able to play at any settings

 

[xSeongminx]

I doubt that you will be able to play it at acceptable performance. Btw, LOUISSSSS, your sig is way too long...

 

[Sunrise089]

Second the too long sig. OP, your fixed resolution will really work against you. If it's something like 1450x1024 thwn it does not look good.

 

[Hellotalkie]

I downloaded css, and when I try to start it up, it shows the loading menu and when its done loading the screen will turn black. Is there a way for me to change to dx7 or opengl since I cant even open up the menu, but I can see the loading menu until its done loading.

 

[dguy6789]

You should have no problem. I have CS Source running on a machine with a pci Geforce 2 MX400 64MB. The game has to run at 640x480 and lowest settings, but it runs well enough to be considered reasonable.

 

[Hellotalkie]

But what if I can't even get in css. I can't see the menu since its all black. I have tried running it in 640 reso. That didnt work. All I can see is my mouse. Is it possible to change the settings without going in the game. Like in the program files, since I was able to do this with Bf2.

 

[aiya24]

increase video memory

 

[anandtechrocks]

Hey cr2250 here is what I do:

Open Steam and go to your games tab. Called "My Games" I think. Right click CS:S and go to Properties. Click the button that says, "Set Launch" or something like that. Type this in: -dxlevel 70

Make sure you put a space before the hyphen if there is anything before it.

 

[anandtechrocks]

Well... did it work cr2250?

 

[imported_JeReMY]

most video cards can run css, the source engine relies on a good cpu more.