Counter Strike Source FPS help.

I dont know if its just me but I dont think my laptop should be running css at 30fps with everything on low and at 800 by 600 resolution.

The specs for my laptop-
1.9 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-58
2048 MB DDR2 (2 Dimm)
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M
160 GB (5400 RPM) (SATA)
Vista sp1

Requirements for css-
Minimum: 1.2 GHz Processor, 256MB RAM, DirectX 7 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Recommended: 2.4 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX 9 level graphics card, Windows 2000/XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

I dont know if i just expect too much from my laptop or somethings wrong could yall please help thanks.

 

Actually I think it should be running everything low at 800 by 600 res. The 7150m is not a "gaming card" hence low performance. Aswell as yor CPU being weak it makes sense.

 

you got an fps config?

 

Go into the Steam games menu, right-click CSS, and go to "Set launch options." Add this: -dxlevel 70 -width 1280 -height 800

You should be able to set most options to medium now - leave shaders and shadows at low for good measure - and get acceptable framerates. I could pull of 1280x768 with medium settings in DX7 mode on an x200M, the 7150M is certainly at least somewhat faster so you should be good.

 

yep. dx7 is faster than dx9... which is faster than dx10. who would have guessed?

at least use dx8.1 which i THINK has almost the same level of visual quality and gives better performance.

the command for that is -dxlevel 81, just do it the same way as lowlymarine said to.

of course, dx 7 might be the way to go since you are looking for better performance here. its hard to say. play around with it.

 

This might be a rather ignorant statement, but 30 FPS with a 7150 GPU? That sounds about right to me for CSS.

 

I get around 30 FPS on average in CS Source at 1400x1050 with -dxlevel 70 on a Mobility Radeon 7500.