Help! My friend wants to play Source games!

[b1gapl]

i have a radeon 9250.... which isn't that good, even compared to the fx5500

It will still play CSS fine. The Radeon 9250 is a close match with the FX5500.

 

[veg1992]

lol when u gettin new system vernong?

doesn't matter? around december???

 

[kobe24]

kool cant wait to see what u get!

 

[nhpb]

Well I know he has a pretty good P4, processor, the comp just wasn't meant for gaming so it had low RAM and no video card.

 

[nhpb]

the best pci-e card is the x1300 right?? look into getting one of those....

He has PCI, not PCI express.

 

[b1gapl]

He meant PCI, because the X1300 is certainly, not the best PCI-e card.

 

[Sora]

it is the best PCI card and will play WoW at max settings but other than that it's not powerful.

yes CS:S is not a powerful game at all

 

[FlashDude]

MrZucchiniHead plays with a p41.6 I believe and a pci card and it plays it fine. I have played it with onboard 6100 and it also plays it fine. You might need to run a custom autoexec.cfg file to turn a bunch of crap off that rob's frame rates. cassie's config for cal is a good starting point.

 

[dario03]

I have a pci 6200 as my backup card. It only gets ~600 in 3dmark05 with my 2.53ghz amd and 1gb ram (I've seen the pci-e versions do much better but pci is restrictive). Also I think it wouldn't even play FEAR. But its just a temp card that I haven't even used in a year and I might of just not set it up right.

 

[Ronnie]

ive played Fear on a 9250 before
it look horrible at low settings but it ran nonetheless