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Old March 28th, 2006, 01:32 PM
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Running CS:S

I was wondering if I could run Counter-strike:source on my pc but i heard you need some good specs so here are my pc specs

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.93GHz
248 RAM
DirectX 9.0c
80 GB Hard Drive
82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family (thats my video card I think)
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Old March 28th, 2006, 01:45 PM
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Look at the sticky http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/...d.php?t=106935 - run the sys req lab for HalfLife2 (same requirements)

Required
Operating System: Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Processor: 1.2 GHz Processor
RAM: 256MB RAM
Video Card: DirectX 7 level graphics card


Recommended
Operating System: Windows 2000/XP
Processor: 2.4 GHz Processor
RAM: 512MB RAM
Video Card: DirectX 9 level graphics card

Your biggest problem is likely to be the on-board Intel Extreme graphics and only 256 MB ram to share with it.

It probably will run but not very well.
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Old March 28th, 2006, 04:17 PM
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Thanks for reply my PC has 256 RAM but I cannot find the other 8Mb I posted eariler about missing RAM and I got told to do something in my bios but i dont know what?
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Old March 28th, 2006, 09:09 PM
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The other 8 is being used by the on-board Intel Extreme graphics. Unlike other on-board graphics solutions, the Intel chip is dynamically allocated system RAM as it needs it for graphics memory. During gaming, it could easily be using 64-128MB of your 256, leaving only 128-192 for the game and operating system. So in your case, increasing the system RAM or buying an add-on graphics card will be the only way to increase performance.

Without knowing what motherboard you have, we cannot tell you if an add-on slot is available for a decent 3d graphics card.
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Old March 28th, 2006, 09:39 PM
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How could I find out what Motherboard I have ?
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Old March 28th, 2006, 10:21 PM
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Run a program like everest
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