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Strayline
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States330 Posts
August 01 2009 18:11 GMT
#21
Btw... I've been wondering: What exactly is the difference between 1.6 and source that make 1.6 so much more "skill based?"
intruding
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
157 Posts
August 01 2009 18:22 GMT
#22
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intruding
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
157 Posts
August 01 2009 18:29 GMT
#23
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Ack1027
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States7873 Posts
August 01 2009 18:30 GMT
#24
Yes I realize that. I searched for systems similar to yours to try to give you an idea of what kinda problems people encountered.

Anyway I have given all the advice I can regarding your issue. I tried to help because I have played many versions of cs for a long period of time over many different systems and didn't want you to have a shitty cs experience just because all your replies were the same. In the end it is your decision. Imo there are very few reasons you can't just buy a cheap $30-60 card and not have to worry about any lag/skip/drops in a pub. Hf.
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-01 19:45:16
August 01 2009 19:42 GMT
#25
On August 02 2009 01:50 Ack1027 wrote:
Yes it can run on Voodoo's or Geforce 1's but nobody who ever amounted to anything in competitive 1.6 used those cards. If you're just looking to be a good pubber or have fun then yeah most any card will do. Onboard will not cut it.


And what were the best cards when CS was released ? ...
Don't tell me that people waited the 9800 to play CS and be competitive lol.


Any card nowadays will run CS perfectly.
ANY ( yea even the shittiest )


And btw the GeForce 1 is >>>>>>>>>>>>> Voodoo 3

;3


edit: I thought this thread was a level tbh.
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-01 20:04:27
August 01 2009 20:02 GMT
#26
On August 02 2009 04:42 Boblion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 02 2009 01:50 Ack1027 wrote:
Yes it can run on Voodoo's or Geforce 1's but nobody who ever amounted to anything in competitive 1.6 used those cards. If you're just looking to be a good pubber or have fun then yeah most any card will do. Onboard will not cut it.


And what were the best cards when CS was released ? ...
Don't tell me that people waited the 9800 to play CS and be competitive lol.


Any card nowadays will run CS perfectly.
ANY ( yea even the shittiest )


And btw the GeForce 1 is >>>>>>>>>>>>> Voodoo 3

;3


edit: I thought this thread was a level tbh.

The graphics and maps were substantially simpler and no one used smokes. I don't think smokes were even legal until 1.5 because they caused crashes, and then they modified how smokes work in 1.6. Now every SOB in pubs is using smokes/flashes at every opportunity. ;o

Any card will run CS perfectly, but onboard is a different story and the OP has an old computer (P4.) It'll definitely run, at least in software mode, but I don't think you'll be able to get above 60fps. Give it a shot though, I could be wrong.
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SaveYourSavior
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States1071 Posts
August 01 2009 20:12 GMT
#27
On August 02 2009 03:11 Strayline wrote:
Btw... I've been wondering: What exactly is the difference between 1.6 and source that make 1.6 so much more "skill based?"


For one part your head hitbox isn't as big as a watermelon

A lot more subtle things like turning around to get half-blinded by flash as opposed to source flashbangs

In 1.6 Recoil for certain guns, while tough to control, have a pattern so that experienced players can use it to move their mouse in an exact pattern to keep it roughly in the same spot while spraying

while source it's just random but doesn't matter since you can just 1 click the head in source, not difficult.

a
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-01 20:35:56
August 01 2009 20:15 GMT
#28
Dude CS uses H-L 1 engine.
You could play H-L with a 133 mhz minimum

Any comp > 500 mhz and a card > Geforce 1 will run CS although the loading might be a bit long.

I used to play on Italy, Aztec, Dust 1/2 etc ... and i'm sure i had at least 30-40 fps.

A 2ghz P4 ( i assume his freq is > 2 ghz ) is way better than my comp so it should run fine ( 60 fps at least ) even with a bad card... ( i doubt it can be worse than a Geforce 1 lol )
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
DrTJEckleburg
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1080 Posts
August 01 2009 20:44 GMT
#29
Running CS and getting 100 FPS are two entirely different things. I originally played on my old eMachines with a 1.7ghz celeron processor, onboard videocard and I think like 128/256 MB of RAM and I got HORRIBLE fps. Any computer now though will of course give you top notch FPS on CS 1.6, but maybe not Source, I don't know what my computer would get on CS:S(game's so bad I don't bother playing it), but I get pretty low FPS in HL:2.
Im pretty good at whistling with my hands, especially when Im holding a whistle.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
August 01 2009 21:13 GMT
#30
On August 02 2009 05:15 Boblion wrote:
Dude CS uses H-L 1 engine.
You could play H-L with a 133 mhz minimum

Any comp > 500 mhz and a card > Geforce 1 will run CS although the loading might be a bit long.

I used to play on Italy, Aztec, Dust 1/2 etc ... and i'm sure i had at least 30-40 fps.

A 2ghz P4 ( i assume his freq is > 2 ghz ) is way better than my comp so it should run fine ( 60 fps at least ) even with a bad card... ( i doubt it can be worse than a Geforce 1 lol )

It's not a processor heavy game. I think a GeForce 1 + older CPU may actually have an advantage over Integrated + newer CPU.
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Hiphopapotamus
Profile Joined July 2009
United States121 Posts
August 01 2009 21:16 GMT
#31
Some notes

CS 1.6 competitive play = 100fps MINIMUM (this is to make you more synced to servers)
CS 1.6 != CS when it was first released. You cannot give advice based on the computer requirements back then (entirely different gameplay and graphics).

I HIGHLY doubt your onboard video will give you smooth fps (let alone 100fps) when more than one smoke is in vision. Smokes in CS are more demanding than one might think. Buy a video card.
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BanZu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3329 Posts
August 01 2009 22:12 GMT
#32
On August 02 2009 02:11 Ack1027 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 01 2009 18:09 BanZu wrote:
The computer that I'm using atm is 5-6 years old and it can almost run CS.

Almost because it started getting old, so for some reason this computer lags a lot now. Used to play a ton on this, so your 3 year old one should run it just fine.


The computer can't run CS anymore because the game has changed through updates and the addition of in-game ads.

When exactly were the major updates?
Sun Tzu once said, "Defiler becomes useless at the presences of a vessel."
clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
August 01 2009 22:28 GMT
#33
Hmm since there is a CS topic, can anyone explain to me why I keep getting the error CL_FlushEntity Packet??

I can't really think of what the problem is.
I know it has to do something with your Internet connection (I think..) and I set my rates to 25000, cl_cmdrate and updaterate to 101 and fps_max to 101. I don't know what could be wrong. Aside from my sister using the computer without much downloading, there is nothing else (no torrents, browsers) that are running. =/
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Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
August 01 2009 23:40 GMT
#34
Try lowering your rate, cmdrate and updaterate. I think that's usually an issue with cmdrate, so try setting it to 60 and then 30.
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DrTJEckleburg
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1080 Posts
August 02 2009 00:19 GMT
#35
On August 02 2009 06:16 Hiphopapotamus wrote:
Some notes

CS 1.6 competitive play = 100fps MINIMUM (this is to make you more synced to servers)
CS 1.6 != CS when it was first released. You cannot give advice based on the computer requirements back then (entirely different gameplay and graphics).

I HIGHLY doubt your onboard video will give you smooth fps (let alone 100fps) when more than one smoke is in vision. Smokes in CS are more demanding than one might think. Buy a video card.


This is also very true, 1.5 ran perfectly on my old comp but when 1.6 came out it was down to 30-40 fps constant.

Cl_flushentity packets are almost always due to connectivity issues.
Im pretty good at whistling with my hands, especially when Im holding a whistle.
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