TF2 performance issues (FPS) Anyone an expert?
Cliff_Forster
Icrontian
Here is the deal.
A PC I built for a friend, specifically for gaming a little over a year ago. Dual Core Athlon X2 7750 - 4 GB of DDR2 1066, Radeon 4870 512 mb. Running Windows XP.
He plays everything on it brilliantly, but he calls me the other day, he just got bit by the TF2 bug, got it durring the Steam sale, but it chugs and crashes. So I have it on my bench at home and I've checked the usual suspects. I cleaned the CCC and Drivers, re installed, no dice. I played with the settings, turning off Catalyst AI, then going into the game and turning graphics down, no dice. Then I checked the file integrity and defragged the game files through steam, no luck. I shut down all background applications and re ran the game, no luck. And when I say chug, I mean chug, like any firefight becomes this 15 fps slide show, its awful. There is absolutely no reason for TF2 to chug on this hardware, especially when this hardware checks out fine on every other application. Other games from the steam client load and play fine.
Icrontic TF2 guru's, any clue what I might be missing?
A PC I built for a friend, specifically for gaming a little over a year ago. Dual Core Athlon X2 7750 - 4 GB of DDR2 1066, Radeon 4870 512 mb. Running Windows XP.
He plays everything on it brilliantly, but he calls me the other day, he just got bit by the TF2 bug, got it durring the Steam sale, but it chugs and crashes. So I have it on my bench at home and I've checked the usual suspects. I cleaned the CCC and Drivers, re installed, no dice. I played with the settings, turning off Catalyst AI, then going into the game and turning graphics down, no dice. Then I checked the file integrity and defragged the game files through steam, no luck. I shut down all background applications and re ran the game, no luck. And when I say chug, I mean chug, like any firefight becomes this 15 fps slide show, its awful. There is absolutely no reason for TF2 to chug on this hardware, especially when this hardware checks out fine on every other application. Other games from the steam client load and play fine.
Icrontic TF2 guru's, any clue what I might be missing?
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One thing you can try is running the game in full-screen windowed mode - some people see better performance like that:
http://lions.dongues.net/board/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=515
another randomly helpful thing to do is to delete the clientregistry.blob in the steam folder (not 100% sure where it is located)
My temps seem to be fine, and I jump into other modern 3D tittle and play them fine without a hitch. I don't think its a hardware issue, I could be wrong, but I think the hardware is fine on all counts, I really think there might be something wonky going on in the software somewhere, or the settings, but I just can't put my finger on it.
Reinstalling TF2 was actually the next thing I was considering. Have you seen installing the Steam client as something that might impact a single game? I've never had to do that before?
By the way, thanks guys....
But for optimal results an exhaustive search may prove more beneficial.
Maybe the bot programming is inefficient or something? Anyone else had this problem?
Glad you got it figured out.