Core 2 Duo 1.66
2GB ram
Intel 965 express chipset shared video

I can run CS 1.6 right now but when I’m in firefights or on zombie maps my FPS drops to like 5 and makes it impossible to aim etc. I know the graphics card is shit etc. but all I want is to play some rounds of 1.6 every once in a while. I’m currently running my settings on OpenGL, everything the lowest it will go. Since I only have 2GB of ram, i was wondering if I bought another 2GB stick for $40 – would that bring me up to 30 or so FPS since my video is shared? Also if anyone has any tips to bring my FPS up like some console scripts I would appreciate it. Also before anyone suggests, I have updated my graphics card with the latest intel chipset driver. thanks again!

CS1.6 isn’t very resource intensive, I’m betting it all hinges on your useless onboard graphics card. RAM would be fairly unlikely to help you.
See if you can bump up the memory allocated to the onboard graphics. Other than that I can’t think of anything else you could do other than an overclock which I wouldn’t recommend on a laptop.
c2d 2.0ghz, 1 gb ram and integrated graphics as well. ih ave no problems running it. so it shouldnt be your ram
Want to give me some more info on your settings?

Are you running it on open GL or D3D? What other settings did you change?
just downloaded steam and played. didn’t change any settings. but i just checked, it was running on 640/480 openGL. i tried 1024 768 and that worked fine also. under the vid tab it was on medium quality but i increased it to high and that worked too for a quick game
change the rates and see if it makes it better

rate xxxx
cl_cmdrate xx
cl_updaterate x
cl_rate x

for x, just plug in numbers like
rate 9000, 15000, 17000, 20000
cl_cmdrate 25, 30, 40
cl_updaterate 20,25,30
cl_rate 9999, 15000, 17000, 20000

well higher resolutions work too for me.

you need to have task manager open in the background. play for a bit. close it and check task manager right away. see what your proc usage was at and also how much your PF usage is. if your PF > your physical ram then you’re using virtual memory, which means you’d benefit from a ram upgrade. but you could probably also allocate less ram to your integrated video card

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