forcing a different direct x version?

[Homer]

Ok, I run around 40-60 fps usually, but with 5 or 6 people on screen and a smoke grenade it can drop to 15 or 20. Since I am more worried about winning than looking at nice water, I find myself wishing I could just run it in dx7. Anyone know the command?

 

[urbanx]

type "dxlevel 70" in the console

 

[The Dark Elf]

Ok, I run around 40-60 fps usually, but with 5 or 6 people on screen and a smoke grenade it can drop to 15 or 20. Since I am more worried about winning than looking at nice water, I find myself wishing I could just run it in dx7. Anyone know the command?

Can you just not turn off all the extra's? skybox, bump mapping, spec/reflection and so on. Or is that considered cheating on CS:S heh

 

[Homer]

I turned everything down, but on a big full server its still to choppy for my taste. I'll try that command.

 

[Homer]

It didn't seem to work...

 

[The Dark Elf]

lower the resolution aswell as the other stuff, turn off shadows, lowest model details, AA and AF all down to nothing. Or get a faster connection if possible, at some point it wont make a difference with the detail.

 

[Homer]

I want shadows on, sometimes they help in the spotting of the bad guys. Everything else is bottomed out, I got it to about 90 fps with 60 at high load. Not bad at all, now I can function in full servers.

I still cant get it into dx7 mode, but I guess if I cant play with 60 I cant play.

 

[Intensemessiah]

You need to put those same commands into the command line under " Launch properties" and or "launch options" in the steam menu. Just right click on CS Source in the steam menu and go from there. I didn't code the game, but I belive that It needs to what ver of Direct X you want to run before in begins rendering the game, so i don't know if it works from the ingame console or not. I use 8.1 ( -dxlevel 81 ) because it is a good balance between high FPS and ugly gaming.

 

[Psychx]

i dont really know your financial situation, but you can upgrade your video card for about $100 for a pretty decent card that should handle cs:s

or do what i did, i got a new motherboard + cpu + ram + case for about $400 and in a couple of weeks im ordering a new video card... i got the amd athlon 64 3200+ and a gig of ram, i really noticed a massive increase of performance in everything i run.

 

[tunk]

the command to use while in the game to write into the console (but not while in a server) is "mat_dxlevel **" where ** is the level of choice

 

[LawOfTheStraw]

i dont really know your financial situation, but you can upgrade your video card for about $100 for a pretty decent card that should handle cs:s

or do what i did, i got a new motherboard + cpu + ram + case for about $400 and in a couple of weeks im ordering a new video card... i got the amd athlon 64 3200+ and a gig of ram, i really noticed a massive increase of performance in everything i run.

What kind of setup did you use to have?