Downloading Counter Strike as I type.....

[ambergris]

Never played an online PC game before so this should be interesting.

Played UT 2004 & Halo on PC but not online.

All tips welcome.

Edited to add:

Now downloading CS-Source with Garry's Mod so I can now continue to suck and get killed as frequently as I had been in CS-1.6 but now with superior graphics!

[LiNuX]

which CS are you downloading? CS 1.6? or CSS?

[ambergris]

CS 1.6 I believe.

[younging94]

You never played a what on what now?
How long have you had a computer?
Anddd, if you wanna have fun, check out surf servers and learn how to do it, youtube is really great for that.

[LordLameeks]

wow i stopped playin cs along time ago i cant believe people still play didnt it come out like 9 years ago... its a fun game tho

[LiNuX]

wow i stopped playin cs along time ago i cant believe people still play didnt it come out like 9 years ago... its a fun game tho

yea, came out in 2001 i believe, I don't remember correctly

the beta came out back in 1999 but it wasn't as good as 1.6 when it finally came out - very old game and it still has millions of players worldwide - although CSS is taken over the numbers a while ago already.

the next CS game is supposed to be CSO which is CS: Online - or something like that. I might get it depending on how they make it look and how the game play feels.

Great game indeed.

[ambergris]

You never played a what on what now?
How long have you had a computer?
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You heard me! 7 years. Thanks for the info.


Yeah, people aren't playing CS from what I can tell. I ran around for a long time not seeing a soul and was threatened to get thrown off the server if I killed one more hostage.

Not a good night. LOL

[elgms]

CS 1.6 I believe.

If that is correct and you bought CS 1.6, you might not be too impressed with the graphics. 1.6 uses a version of the Quake 1 engine, which is over 10 years old and the graphics will seem dated.

Counter-strike:source on the other hand uses the newer source engine, which sports improved graphics and physics. There has been talk that Valve is going to update CS:S to the orange box engine, which will improve the graphics even more and add dual core support for the game.

Right now, CS 1.6 and CS:S only uses one core of a multi-core processor. So even if you have a quad core processor, the game can only use 1 core. But the newer games built on the orange box platform are supposed to be able to use more then one core of a multi-core processor.

[ambergris]

Thanks, you are right. I'm not impressed with CS 1.6 but the price was right.

I'm using a Radeon X1050 video card in a Dell 2.8 Pentium 4 with HT and 1000mb RAM so I'm not sure how many high end games I'll be able to play anyway.

I'm more of a console kinda guy.

[LiNuX]

Thanks, you are right. I'm not impressed with CS 1.6 but the price was right.

I'm using a Radeon X1050 video card in a Dell 2.8 Pentium 4 with HT and 1000mb RAM so I'm not sure how many high end games I'll be able to play anyway.

I'm more of a console kinda guy.

old pc...and I'm not a fan of dell anyway

i used to be a console gamer back in the day, then slowly moved onto PC gaming. I used to be a console guy when I first got CS many many years ago, I don't know when I transitioned fully to pc though.

and why aren't you impressed with the game? well nothing to be impressed about these days because game play and graphics are years old but I still find it fun once in a while to play with old friends.