Counter-Strike question. Plz Help!!

I love CS but I\'m not sure if it will run on my sh1t box of a computer.

500mhz AMD K-6 2 3D (processor)
196mb RAM
Matrox MGA Mystique PCI 4mb (vid card)


???

It will run fine.  No more needs to be said really, it\'ll just run fine.

Originally posted by Ryu
It will run fine.  No more needs to be said really, it\'ll just run fine.

ARE YOU SERIOUS?!!

Thank god.

Any estimates on the FPS?

[Bobs_Hardware]

you think your computer is a **** box, hell, compared to my PC yours is completely awesome...its really only the video card that lets your system down as far as game playing ability is.  As Ryu said, it\'ll run fine.

Really? Cool. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside now.

You know what a strange thing is? I have an AGP card a friend gave me but its worse than my PCI card. Maybe its just the drivers though, but I\'m not sure.

Jebus!? u call that a **** box?
well in that case mines a **** factory.

The only problem here I think is the video card... it doesn\'t seem to be the best and that would be the bottleneck here. I suggest you buy a cheap card like Geforce or even Voodoo3 (I have a Voodoo3 on a 466 MHz Celeron and 128 megs of RAM - runs fine). But as I said, I think the currect card will be a problem.

as samwise said, I doubt it can run a framerate above 30 with your current vid card, get a gf2 mx, kyro II or if you a desperate a voodoo 3

EDIT

I see what video card you have its one of the old ones back in the day of voodoo1 its a powerVR based chip and it might not be supported by the game

I was just checking out PriceWatch.com and I found a few good deals:

1. Generic Savage 2000 AGP Video Card, 64MB SDRAM, Retail Box.
Specs: 128-bit 2D & 3D 350MHz RAMDAC Texture compression S3 DirectX 6. X (S3TC) Driver. 1 Yr Warranty.
$57

2. GeForce2 MX200 64MB SDRAM AGP- mx 200 64 mb.
$68

There were a few more but those were the cheapest of that type.

What should I do? Buy one of them? Look around more? Get a used one?

I have a very limited budget right now.

Get the Geforce 2 MX for Christ\'s sake... don\'t touch the other one. If your budget is low then buy a used card. But stick to nVidea for this one.

You know, now that I think about it I think I\'ll just stick with my sh1t stick of a video card and save up some more until I can get a real vid card.

Besides, I need that money for PS2 games.

Solid,

Go for the MX. With your processing power there\'s no point in going higher anyway.. and the MX is a good value for its price. Leagues above that Matrox junk.

- dm
- the trick is to keep breathing.

Originally posted by datamage
Solid,

Go for the MX. With your processing power there\'s no point in going higher anyway.. and the MX is a good value for its price. Leagues above that Matrox junk.

- dm
- the trick is to keep breathing.

Well if I was going to go for an MX I want to get an MX400.
A friend of mine has a Pentium 2 350mhz, 64mb RAM, and an MX400 64mb, and it works great. So it should run even better on mine.

The only problem is most MX400\'s I\'ve seen have been $100 and up.

SS88 when you get Counter STrike IM me on AIM and I will give you an IP so we can play together... I will beat your a** lol j/k

Originally posted by FackinKubuss
SS88 when you get Counter STrike IM me on AIM and I will give you an IP so we can play together... I will beat your a** lol j/k

n/p FackinKubass. I love to play against people I "know" (that way I get to rub it in their faces more. hehehe).

Well now I have another question:

My friend used to have a 4mb AGP card. One day he let me install CS on my comp for a while. Strange thing is, my computer is superior in just about every way compared to his (he\'s the guy with the P2 350), and yet it still ran massively better on his than on mine. I figure this has something to do with the fact that its an AGP card, which is, what, like 50x faster than PCI?
Although this is about the only thing the card has going for it compared to mine.

So a few weeks ago I installed his new card for him (a GF2 MX400 64mb) on his comp, and in return he gave me his old one (joy :rolleyes: )
So I looked over it again and again but couldn\'t find a manufacturers name. In fact the only name on the card was on a very small chip (like 3/4 of an inch) which read "Holtek". I know this isn\'t the manufacturers name because it wasn\'t on the main chip and because I know Holtek isn\'t a card manufacturer.
Also the heatsink was covering the main chip and I was afraid that if I ripped the heatsink off I might not be able to get it back on.

So I eventually got around to installing the card, only to find, to my dismay, that it didn\'t offer a name on the "Installing New Hardware" program either. The only thing it said was "Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)".
Now two things are not right about this, #1 it says PCI when the card is clearly AGP, and #2 wtf does it mean by Standard???

Anyway, I assign it drivers, ect, ect, Windows does its usual 640x480 crap, I go to Control Panel>Display>Settings and find that it won\'t allow anything higher than 640x480x16.

I know this is because it needs new drivers but I can\'t very well find new drivers when the cards manufacturer is "Standard" now can I?

Another thing is I know the card supports higher than 640x480x16 because my friend had it set to 800x600 when he was using it. Darn

Any ideas???? Please.