Win 7 Performance Issues

[qqg3]

I thought I'd see if counter strike was still any fun, after 4-5 years off. Installed everything and went to play but its laggy as hell. (Asus UL30A laptop with Win 7 64 bit.)

I've turned off Aero and updated graphics drivers with no change. Even knocking down the resolution and settings doesn't help.

I remember playing this game on a poor spec Win XP machine so why an earth can't this laptop handle it?

I blame Win 7 primarily, although I'm confused by how to compeltely kill all of the performance sucking features of this damn OS.

 

[qqg3]

I know I shouldn't blame win 7, but even the low low specs of this laptop beat anything I used to have.

I am merely making a comparison, it's been played with intel inboard graphics before so I am confuzzled at why performance capabilities have gone backwards.

 

[qqg3]

Yep, killed all the unnecessary features with no change. Booted up the original 1.6 game and it's the same; super laggy which is frankly ridiculous when it's running on such an ancient gfx engine.