PC Tech Help (video/gamer guru)

[Delphi]

i'm a bigtime pc gamer...

Now your pc is more than good enough except for one thing, your onboard vid card. Basically that vid card is either a 64mb or 32mb and than it uses hard drive space to get the rest of the 256mb. In an essance its not a real 256mb vid card because hard disk memory is slower than a 100 year old t-32, lol.

Anyways spend about 100$ and get a half way decent Agp8 or PCI-E x16 card. Thats whats makin your game lag.

Good luck
Have fun.

[Gman]

i'm a bigtime pc gamer...

Now your pc is more than good enough except for one thing, your onboard vid card. Basically that vid card is either a 64mb or 32mb and than it uses hard drive space to get the rest of the 256mb. In an essance its not a real 256mb vid card because hard disk memory is slower than a 100 year old t-32, lol.

Absolute bunk. The GPU is using dedicated physical RAM, not virtual memory being cached on disk. Study up on UMA-Unified Memory Architecture.

Atrain, it would still be helpful to have the make/model of your system. There are different Northbridge and Southbridge chipset combinations that will dictate the performance of your specific system. The nVidia 6100 is limited to only 2 pixel pipelines, which isn't going to give you high-end gaming performance. The 6100 series does support DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 3.

[KarlPMann]

Hmmmm... CS:S... :twisted: Now where have I heard of that game? :roll:

They may be right, and I have a QUICK way to test it. I upgraded my video card not too long ago and still have my old one. The old ran CS:S just fine for me too. I upgraded because of DOOM3. :roll: Anyway, I got the card and the orginal drivers right here. Give me a call today and we can get together and try it. Karl.

[KarlPMann]

If I remember correctly, it's an nVidia GeForce 4/MX4000 with 128Mb. of RAM. Not high end by todays standards, but I know for a fact it will run Counterstrike Source. Oh, and it's AGP. Karl.

[KarlPMann]

Oh, and I was running it at 1024x768 (or higher) and it got a much better rate than 15fps. I seem to recall it went anywhere from 30 - 90 depending on resolution I ran it at. I got the card out, it is what I said it was. Now I'm going through my CD's looking for the drivers. Karl.

[KarlPMann]

Oh and last, it's an "eVGA" brand card and I think it can run on either 4X or 8X AGP. If you lost my number, PM me. Karl.


PS: Found the driver CD, looking to see if I still have a box too.

[Atrain]

Gman, My system is a Lenovo 3000 J series (IBM).
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/c...7E639B7AF4B25A

Karl, thanks for offering up your old card. I was going to try throwing in my GeForce 5200 128mb card from my other system but the new one does not have an AGP slot...Bummer.

[Atrain]

I was able to get 30 FPS by lowering the resolution and changing the game video settings to the lowest. Not the way I want to play. I'll be picking up this card tomorrow because I have a $40 gift card for compusa: http://www.compusa.com/products/prod..._OC_Video_Card

Thanks for all the help fellas,

Atrain

[Delphi]

The stuff that Gman said is probobly right lol, i dunno all the technical terms and stuff but that card should run CS:S fine.... my old radeon 9800 ran it like a charm, i think that card isnt too much different

[Atrain]

Well, I can't seem to figure out a way to improve it so I will take Dave's advice and buy the new card. If it doesn't work, I'll send him the bill... :mrgreen:

Thanks again