Counter-Strike: Source Forum

Hi All,

I have a macbook pro 17".

I am running steam with crossover and I play CS source.

The problems I have are mostly ingame but I feel it is coming from crossover.. cause with this machine, this crappy performance is hard to believe.
I play with 50 fps when things go well, when I get into combat or more action in my area then the fps drops to 5-20 somewhere. which is impossible to play!

I assume this is because I run it via crossover and I probably have something set wrong... or I am missing some settings or something..

Anybody that can help out here?

Thanks in advance!

Try lowering your detail and resolution settings. Also make sure you don't have large applications running in the background. Games need as much of the CPU as possible, so leaving CPU/RAM hogging apps running will always degrade performance.

I have not seen fps drops that bad myself, even on my MacBook.

well that's the weird thing about the whole thing....
If I set my settings to "standard" when i install let's say.. or when I turn everything down to low detail.. no or hardly any difference.
that's the weird part. I play on normal settings it's like this and I play on low details, same story.

and nothing is running in the background.

I'm getting the same thing. Running crossover with CS Source, im getting on average about 30 fps with everything on low.

Is this because:

a) running DX8 and not 9
b) Some setting ive not set right
c) Driver update needed (tried to update but no drivers available for OS X.

Ive tried alot of things and still the same.

In combat i get about 20 fps. Surely with a macbook pro 17" (2.4 gHz, 2gig ram) it should run smooth? I have also tried running it in a window instead of full screen and still the same thing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Dan

The video drivers for the new MacBook Pro are giving us no end of troubles. We generally assume problems such as these are our fault, but after banging our heads against this issue for a while, we're pretty sure there are bugs in that driver. For one thing, running Leopard on the same hardware gives vastly better results, which suggests we're not doing anything very wrong.

You do not need DirectX 9 to get good performance in CS:S.

The warning dialog you posted can safely be ignored. Valve maintains a list of known video drivers for Windows, and shows that dialog whenever your system's driver doesn't match what's on their list. Not surprisingly, Mac video drivers don't match anything on their list.