Slow down in source games

z0mbi3 · 12 Mar 2007 at 10:45

Wondering if anyone has any tips for me on this. Since using Vista, all the source games I play (Source Forts and Dystopia mainly) have been suffering from a weird kind of frame rate lag. It's really inconsitant, and sometimes I can play for an hour before I'll notice it. The problem has survived a fresh Vista install.

I tried some memory tweaks via autoexec.cfg and things seemed to improve but it's difficult to measure, it might just be a placebo effect.

As far as I can tell my other games are fine.

Specs:

x2 4400
2 gigs geil value ram
DFI NF4 Ultra D
x1900 xt
Xfi

^ Specs really shouldn't be an issue.

The only other thing I could think of is that it may be some kind of memory leak.

I'm having trouble finding people with the same issue, so if anyone has any thoughts I'm open to all suggestions.

Cheers

agnes · 12 Mar 2007 at 12:16

i used to get this on a temp build i had with a x800 card, always random and only seemed to be on certain steam games, i never really tried to resolve it because it didnt bother me all that much.

id just say stick with it and let i do its job

ags

z0mbi3 · 12 Mar 2007 at 12:29

I'd like to do that but it's bugging me too much. Need to get to the bottom of it.

m0r94n · 12 Mar 2007 at 13:22

Ive never experienced this but maybe searching the Steam forums may provide some answers?

z0mbi3 · 12 Mar 2007 at 14:15

Tried this, can't seem to find anything.

Ronaldo · 12 Mar 2007 at 14:54

would be a backgroup process in vista is using CPU while your playing. Source games are CPU intensive

z0mbi3 · 12 Mar 2007 at 16:13

Any idea what proccesses might be to blame? I'm going to review logs and look into this properly tonight.

CrowK · 12 Mar 2007 at 16:31

does it also occur in a listen server?

using +showbudget in the console might help to isolate the problem (great big graph on screen though, so difficult to do while playing)

z0mbi3 · 14 Mar 2007 at 17:30

Going to have to bump this I'm afraid.

Still getting these issues. I'm not sure but I think it may be in Far Cry too (I am running it on full settings but I dunno).

Really stumped on what it could be.

tomanders91 · 14 Mar 2007 at 17:38

its true, must be a vista problem, my e6400, 2gb ram and a 8800gts, on cs_italy it sometimes went down to 30-40 fps on crowder servers, should be 80+ constantly no matter how many people are on.

z0mbi3 · 15 Mar 2007 at 10:26

I'm convinced it's a Vista issue. I still have my XP install safe and I never have this problem there.

I don't see anything obvious when I look ay my processes. The only thing I think might be effecting things is Superfetch. I haven't really had time to investigate it properly but when I turned it off lagging in Farcry appeared to be less, but the same in Dystopia :confused: