Intel GMA 4500m help

For the past few years i've been using a CQ62-219wm (i kno its crap). I have quite a bit of steam games but the only ones i can bear to play at the terrible fps are tf2 and CSS. CSS does pretty good on high but tf2 does rly bad on low, i'd like some help on how i can increase my tf2 fps to above 20 (at least) with low/med quality on about 600p (i kno its possible since ppl on youtube do it, they just dont post their settings).

 

Other than keeping the driver up to date and waiting for GMABooster to support the X4500, you're just going to have to play with the settings. Does TF2 have the ability to be render in DirectX 8 like CSS?

 

yea -dxlevel 81 in lauch options but it didnt change much 4 me

 

X4500 should be able to play TF2, my Latitude 13 with a ULV Core 2 Duo SU7300 and X4500 could run DoD:S/TF2 on low/medium 1368x768.

 

Back in the early 2000s, when I used to hit up some Half-Life 1 Deathmatch servers, I played on a computer with an ATI 4 MB RAGE graphics [RAWR!].
However, I used to increase performance to playable levels whenever I did a fresh defrag of the harddrive. Of course, after a few days the performance would drop and I would have to do a defrag all over again.

Not sure if the above method still applies today, but it's worth a shot.

Also, for TF2, I would expect it to do much worse than CS:S just because there's so many more "items" to render.

 

Try dropping all the settings to lowest? Disable AA and set the intel GMA graphics control panel to performance. ALso check if you have the latest drivers. In the steam library right click on a game and it should say verify game integrity or something like that (its basically a defrag of game files).

 

You can use a MAXFPS config by Chris for TF2.