Help: ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 on a Inspiron 9400\e1705

Im using a Inspiron 9400\e1705 with a ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 256 mb with 128 shared.
Im running counter strike cz and it lags on the fps everytime the throw a smoke or there is 5 or more people on my screen, and i expeted it to run atleast counter strike.
i thought i should just configure it, but
i've been told i gotta download somekind of driver to play counter strike in here.
Anybody can help me with this< what driver i should download to play this game ?
Thanks in advance .

 

Are you using Vista? If not, refer to the guide that is stickied at the top of the forum.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=64910

 

Another question, how much RAM you have installed?

 

Its 1GB RAM
i've read the guide, i need to know what driver i downlaod for gamming, i have the pmega one and the latest ati driver downloaded Dells web site,
i need to know witch to install and what do i need to configure to get my coubnter strike to work better, i still can play, but it lags on smoke with the worst quality and lags when there is a shoot out in front of me :/
help
thanks .

 

Well, the x1400 is going to lag a little with CS:S on a smoke grenade, but it shouldn't at the lowest settings. Again, we need to know if you're running Vista. If so, this could explain a lot as the current video drivers for Vista are not exactly stable. However, speaking of drivers, your safest bet is to just use Dell's drivers. The Omega drivers might be better, but they may be worse, especially if you're using Vista.

 

Its windows Xp Home im running
its not even Cs Source i Cs condition Zero and 1.6
I unstalled ATI drievrs and installed Omega ones, it still lags on fps, neevr had problems even with my old Gforce 440 Go 64Mb on Inspiron 8200
im not gonna even talk about my 256Gforce 7800 GTX now im using a inspiron 9400 with 256ATI Mobility radeon x1400, i ve heard ati was a good video card and now im having problems with Counter strike 1.6 and condition zero
can someone help me pleaSe .

 

Have you defragged and uninstalled all the bloatware (especially with antivirus, Norton AV sucks up alot of resources)? Are you running in OpenGL mode for CS? The X1400 shouldn't have any problems with CS, even with a little smoke. Worst comes to worst, a clean install of XP should fix the issue.

 

i agree with zoomastigophora. u should us open gl cause thats what the game was designed to run in. and try like a lower color bit depth. like 24 or 16 maybe. try tweeeking ur api specific settings in ur catalyst driver settings. try triple buffer and if u really need to try force 24 bit depth. thats all i know. i pay counter strike source on an x1600 @ 1650x1050 with everything up except aa and texture filter on trilinier, and the game runs ok UNTIL someone throws a smoke. smoke is actually a very graphics intensive thing to render.

 

The smoke in CS:S is alot more optimized than in CS 1.6. In 1.6, it looks like the game engine is just spamming millions of small gray pixels to achieve the smoke effect. But agreed, smoke is very graphically intensive. Even my X1600 lags after 5-6 condensed smoke in one area.

Speaking of CS:S, Cat 7.2 seems to have completely screwed up CS:S' perception of widescreen, so now everything is widescreen, but vertically. It's so weird

 

Can everyone stop talking about CS:S? He's talking about 1.6...

Uninstall the driver you got from Dell, use driver Cleaner Pro to delete all traces (google it), then install the latest Omega Drivers. See if that helps. Otherwise, I assume you're not running in battery saving mode or something else optimised to prolong life, although even with that CS 1.6 shouldn't present any sort of problem...

but at least, you don't have to worry - if it's working right, the X1400 is more then capable at running CS 1.6 or CZ at the highest settings at about 150fps - it's even quite decent for Counter Strike Source. So hopefully you can sort your problem out with just changing drivers....it's actually incredible what difference drivers can make, you wouldn't believe it.

also though, how do other games run, or have you tried?