Low FPS in Source based games. Hello, Well having spent quite a bit of green for my age getting a new ATI HD4850 I seem to be stuck with this problem. My specs are: AMD x2 3800+ S939 @ 2.3 (Giga-byte mobo no have voltage but my A8N-E still has the same...

Source Engine games on Compaq Presario R3000. Hey guys. I wanted to know how well source based games will play on my new laptop with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4, 2GBs of RAM, 15.4 inch 1280x800 display, WD scorpio black 120gb hdd, windows xp pro, and a Radeon 9000...

altogether and go for CounterStrike:Source which is based on > the Half-Life 2 Source Engine and looks much nicer. You can get that by > downloading steam from and then buying and > downloading the game through steam or you can buy half-life 2 on disk...

Unreal 3 Engine based games make use of 4 cores, so does GTA4. You hit the nail on the head but you fail to realize why. Game developers; They have no desire to push CPU and graphic development. They are in the business of selling games and games...

The 4670 won't have any problem with it ^_^. Any game with an unreal based engine should be fine, as should most sourced based games. You can also get GRID, but you'll have to turn down some of the more CPU intensive options. If you want to play anything newer...

all of my games work (including all my source based games) I can confirm that freelancer, freespace, 2, max payne, and mame works, so I'm good, and yes im stiill playing max payne, dont have time to finish games, so i play them for years,lol ...

to add? EDIT: I should have added, he's not into gaming at the "runs crysis at 60fps constant" level. Source based games, newer games playable at medium settings (FPS and RTS mostly). I am choosing parts for a friend's gaming computer, I just want to make...

me. -CS:Source- Unplayable frame rates if Vista 64 hosts, fine otherwise I Have absolutley no issues with CS:Source or any other Source based game. Maybe you need better hardware. Ive not had a single problem with BF2 and we play it daily. Only other...

a bottleneck with the C2Qs. but from what I have seen since most games don't rely heavily on the CPU at all then the performance bottlnecks at the GPU. Except for Source based games where even a Phenom II X4 and a C2Q are about on par. In some cases a C2Q...

prices are going down, is the software support there yet? wow tough crowd you gotta giove people time man. it depends on what games you play. i play valves source based games which natively support widescreen formats, both 16:9 and 16:10. most developers...