cs 1.6 on this rig

willthepirate · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:42

how might cs 1.6 run on a rig like this?

Athlon xp 2000+ (1.6 ghz iirc)
256mb pc2100
Radeon 7000 64mb AGP
windows xp

silversurfer · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:43

Probably, ive got CSS on a 8500le.

I wanted to see if 1.6 would run on a 1mb card in software mode or something

Aod · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:51

willthepirate said:
how might cs 1.6 run on a rig like this?

Athlon xp 2000+ (1.6 ghz iirc)
256mb pc2100
Radeon 7000 64mb AGP
windows xp

it should be fine. i've played HL1 on much worse than that.

HangTime · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:52

In theory it should run OK, trouble is with Steam taking over you've got extra bloat meaning that 256meg RAM may not be enough for WinXP + CS.
Will probably need to tweak services, startup etc and make sure you close down all apps before playing.

akirru · 26 Jul 2007 at 11:39

Thanks to steam .. you'll probably be struggling to get a steady FPS, especially while on a public server with 16+ players. It might be an idea to lock your framerate to what ever your average us. So if it mostly hangs around 60fps lock it to that. That should give u a more stable game ..

Use this command in the console

fps_max "60" (or what ever you want to lock it to)

gacameron01 · 26 Jul 2007 at 16:36

willthepirate said:
how might cs 1.6 run on a rig like this?

Athlon xp 2000+ (1.6 ghz iirc)
256mb pc2100
Radeon 7000 64mb AGP
windows xp

Needs a touch more RAM i'd say.
I still occasionally play 1.6 on my Athlon xp 2100+ (1.7ghz), 512MB ram, 64MB Ti4200, xp

Spleenus · 26 Jul 2007 at 17:23

Why will he struggle to run CS on that since CS has been around since the days of 500MHz computers...

HAz · 26 Jul 2007 at 17:38

I was playing cs on a 333 p2 and a voodoo 2 3000 back in the day, so it should fly along oh yea i had 64meg of ram too.

blairw · 26 Jul 2007 at 18:27

Yeah but using steam and such has slowed down cs1.6 compared to when it was a stand alone game

.:MBK:. · 26 Jul 2007 at 19:13

indeed 1.6 isnt the issue here, xp + steam + 1.6 is where problems arise

HangTime · 27 Jul 2007 at 00:29

Spleenus said:
Why will he struggle to run CS on that since CS has been around since the days of 500MHz computers...

CS may have come out in 1999 but at that time it was simply a 3rd party mod for Halflife. v1.6 has quite a lot added slowing it down.

Then the memory footprint of XP is much greater than win98se. This is compounded by Steam hogging extra memory for itself.

Also, don't forget that our perception of what good performance is has changed a lot. I used to find playing FOS with say 35fps fine, but now it is virtually unplayable. So while with rose-tinted glasses we think that certain games used to run fine, they probably didn't.