Counter Strike Questions

[GTaudiophile]

I finally decided to enable the Console for Half-Life/Counter Strike. I have a few questions:

1) How do I enable the "~" key to drop down the console during a CS game?
2) What command should I use to see the FPS I'm getting during a CS game?
3) How do I enable 32-bit graphics?

A friend told me to use the command, "net_graph 3" to see my FPS during a game. I did this, and my FPS ranged between 45 and 70, never dropping below 45. I am running CS on a PII-450 with 256MB PC100 SDRAM, Win98, DirectX 7.0a, and an ATI Radeon 32DDR using the official 3056 drivers. I was using FSAA (x4) when I got the above FPS numbers. Is this performance decent?

 

[Spence]

add this "-console" to the target part of the shortcut to enable the console

 

[Spence]

add this "-console" to the target part of the shortcut to enable the console

 

[GTaudiophile]

I have already enabled the console.

 

[Maniac9127]

1) How do I enable the "~" key to drop down the console during a CS game?
In the cstrike folder, open the file named config.cfg (use notepad or any other text editor), go down to where it says: console "X.0". If it doesn't already, change it to 1.

2) What command should I use to see the FPS I'm getting during a CS game?
Either use "cl_showfps 1" or net_graph 1 2 or 3.

3) How do I enable 32-bit graphics?
Half Life doesn't support 32-bit graphics.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Thanks.

Someone did post a while back that you can force 32-bit graphics in CS. It's some you add after "hl.exe" in the shortcut path line.

 

[Finality]

I thought by setting the desktop to 32 bit we get 32 bit smoke, where I noticed it makes a big difference. Its actually transparent vs sheets in 16 bit. Otherwise the rest of the game looks normal in 16 vs 32 bit.

 

[mikee]

Yeah, the smoke it 32-bit is much more complex. Also kills the fps as well. The rest of the game looks pretty much the same.

 

[Guilty]

-32bpp

 

[Philly C]

Some console commands and other tweaks for HL here.

 

[Agamar]

Hehe, smoke looks great with Glide