Counter-Strike: Source Forum

Hey guys, Im new and need your help.

Can someone tell me how to make Counter Strike run faster?? Right now when I play and I walk around its ok, but when I get into a gun fight the game goes laggy and I get killed. Also the latency sometimes reaches up to 500 and in one case 900, I had nothing downloading on the computer. But then again sometimes the latency is on 19 to 40.

Edit: Guys Ive tried to change the resolution but noe Ive ruined counter strike. When ever I run counter strike a small blue window opens up saying "mode not supported" or something like that.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!

I don't have any particular advice about getting it to run faster, but you can try this to reset it back to working:

In the Steam GUI, right-click on CS:S and select Properties from the context menu. In the properties dialog, there's a button to set the game launch options. You need to have "-novid" in there to work around a bug in CrossOver. To reset the graphics settings of the game, you should also add "-dxlevel 81".

Run the game once with that setting. It should come up fine (no "mode not supported" window). If it still fails, then I'm on the wrong track.

After you've run it once like that, you should remove "-dxlevel 81" from the launch options because that will interfere with any video settings you try to save from within the game.

I hope that helps. Good luck.

Thanks a million, counter strike works now, once again Thanks for the help.

Hi,
Sorry for the late reply, but in general css runs fastest in dxlevel 81 with all settings set to lowest, cl_drawmonitors 0, r_waterdrawreflection 0 and r_waterdrawrefraction 0. The most important setting is to turn off shadows because they increase the drawing complexity quite a lot, especially if there are many players visible. dxlevel 60 and 70 are usually slower than 80 in my testing.