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I had a un-legit copy from DigitalZone. There were no patches for it (that I knew of). Anyway when I started it up for the first time, I was only capped at 3FPS (on windows) which seemed really strange seeing that Steam's CS:S was capped at 10FPS lol. Only nice thing about that copy was that it had music playing on the main menu (and of course was non-steam).

I don't understand how that would work exactly though. Like how would I hook a monitor in to work with it? Wouldn't my laptop keep using my intergrated card (intel 950) still?

 

Also on ebay I could only find min PCIe cards that were for Wireless

Oups, I forgot that Acer laptop is not the same as IBM or Lenovo if you prefered (I had this in mind cause I work for a while for them). However, it doesn't work because integrated graphics (mean on the chipset). IBM used PCIe Video card like Intel GMA 950. Also, screen should be plug onto but IBM was directly plugged on it.. Sorry for the confusion :S

CS:S runs a lot better (for me) under Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard with Crossovers then it does on Windows XP/Vista. Is this strange or is it just me?

 

Same thing goes with GTA: San Andreas...

 

It's your video chipset. The GMA950 is an EXTREMELY weak GPU. It just happens to apparently have better OSX drivers than Windows drivers. Of course, it probably doesn't support all the fancy graphical effects on Leopard. It's the DirectX support in Windows that slows it down.

 

EDIT: and nope, your GPU will not be upgradeable. Even among identical model laptops (my Aspire 5920 being an example) the integrated GPU versions use a different motherboard than the discrete GPU versions. There are silkscreenings on the board for a MXM slot (the proper name for what's being referred to as mini-pcie; graphics cards don't come in that formfactor; MXM stands for Mobile eXpress Module and was designed by nVidia, even these tend to differ in type between MXM-I, MXM-II, etc.) but the slot physically isn't present.

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