I used to be addicted to Counter-Strike 1.6 on LAN, so my dream was to have the Counter-Strike experience at home.
It was 2004. My old computer only had 256MB of RAM, so I bought a new one with 1GB of RAM, a 2.2GHz processor, and an ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (with 128MB of memory). I don't know what happened, maybe it was the graphics card, but the resolution looked crappy, and when I would zoom in with the awp, the textures looked blocky.
So I gave up for a while, and then I got CS: Source. I still had the exact same hardware, but Source ran better because you could scale it down. However, there was major lag because I had a 256K DSL internet connection. I didn't really think that through. My quest for Counter-Strike at home was never fulfilled.
..... O there's the problem. You used the AWP. It auto sets the game to fail. Anyway.. did you try to turn the res up in settings? I used to play cs on a 56k waaaaay before 2004 lol. I dont see why source wouldnt run on dsl honestly. I used to play it on dsl when I still lived in the boonies of Colorado.
@TotalEklypse: Yeah, no matter how high I made the resolution it was still blocky. I guess it wasn't "major lag," just a lot laggier than LAN, which was what I was used to. Also, maybe my hardware was causing high fps.
" @TotalEklypse: Yeah, no matter how high I made the resolution it was still blocky. I guess it wasn't "major lag," just a lot laggier than LAN, which was what I was used to. Also, maybe my hardware was causing high fps. "
Well.. you actually do want high fps.. it's the oppesite that's bad.
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