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Hi,

I am running the crossover trial version on Macbook 1.83ghz with 1gb ram. I have an external monitor connected at 1280x1024. When I set the external as primary display and launch counterstrike, the system switch resolution and I still see a part of the steam gui, the rest of the screen is black. If I move the mouse, I can hear the sound it makes if move over the buttons in CS. But I seem not to be able to click anything.

If I choose the internal display as primary, it works but the game runs poorly. Besides low fps in general there are freezes of about 300ms again and again. I would, considering the importance of even and flawless play in a game like CS, call it unplayable.

Is my hardware not sufficient? Is the performance going to improve in future versions? And how to get the external monitor working?

Thanks in advance.

To add some numbers. I tweaked the CS settings for performance.

Being alone on a server I have FPS 50-70; which is okay. But sometimes FPS drop to 20-40 and stay there for sometime then go back to normal. These drops can occure together with short freezes.

For example: I press the mousebutton to fire but nothing happens, the game freezes for a short moment then resumes at 20-40 FPS. After 10 sec or so FPS return to normal.

Having 2 or 3 other players in view, FPS are at 20-40; looking into a smokegrenade drops them below 10.

This all is opengl at 640x480.

This thread is rather old, but no one seems to have noted at least one fix anywhere, so I figured I might as well.

A friend of mine was just having this exact same issue with his Macbook Pro (OS X 10.5.6) hooked up to his external monitor. The fix (as provided by Ken in the IRC chat room) is as follows:

1. Set the external monitor as the default display (in Display preference pane of System Preferences).
2. Make sure that the external monitor is the to the left and above the internal monitor.

That fixed it for my friend, so hopefully it'll work for others as well.