Half-Life: Blue Shift Tips

Running Half Life: Blue Shift under Mac or Linux will not usually have performance issues, but if you have an old computer, or are using a high resolution pack there may be significant slow down.  Therefore it is essential to make the fps that you do get work for you.  Most LCD monitors redraw 60 times per second, and if extra frames are rendered between these intervals, or in an unsynchronized manner it causes visual disturbances, and unnecessary strain on your video card.  Enabling Vsync will cause almost no drop in FPS, but will greatly enhance your gaming experience. The benefit of this is that the frames that are drawn are perfectly synchronized with the blanking interval, and a noticeable increase in smoothness will occur.  If you have Vsync on you can then enter fps_max 60 in your console since unless you have a 120 Hz gaming monitor anything above 60 fps will be wasted and will just serve to increase the temperature of your GPU.  If you have a 120 Hz monitor use fps_max 120.  Enjoy.