Slow/Stuttery Half-Life 1/ Natural Selection Performance.

keinekeine Join Date: 2010-05-17 Member: 71792Members
edited June 2010 in Tech Support
I would think that my rig could put out a 60fps constant HL1 performance, and I'm pretty sure that my older systems did, but I'm having trouble with my current computer.


E2160 @3.2 Ghz. (~E6750-E6850)
6 Gig DDR2400 Ram
7800GTX stock
P35-DS3L Gigabyte mobo.
Win7 x64



I'm trying to run Natural Selection through steam. I've got it set to 1920*1200 Open GL 32 bit. However, I'm getting frequent dips down to 30 and 20 fps. This shouldn't be happening. Say an enemy gets close and starts attacking. Or just many people around at once. The marine transporter WILL trash my FPS when I look at it. Also, If I open up the menu while playing, the FPS also goes south to 30 and 20fps, which I can feel while navigating the server browser.
I've grabbed the latest Nvidia, Creative Audigy, and P35 Intel drivers. Defragged in the last 2 months at least. Checked my Half Life 1 files for both integrity and defragmented them in steam. Microsoft Security Essentials hasn't picked up anything, if that counts for anything. Deleted the profile HL folder and let steam re extract the files.

I'm running Windows 7, which I have never really gamed seriously on before. I've got as much stuff disabled as I can in the background. Indexing is definitely off.

I'm thinking about just reformatting to XP? Would that be a good idea?
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  • spellman23spellman23 NS1 Theorycraft Expert Join Date: 2007-05-17 Member: 60920Members
    weird....

    Then again, I don't have Win7.
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  • keinekeine Join Date: 2010-05-17 Member: 71792Members
    edited May 2010
    Thinking it might be a bad driver, I did a driver sweeper in safe mode and reinstalled the latest Nvidia driver. No luck. Full defrag and virus scan, Microsoft Security Essentials. Too.

    Ran it on another computer, albeit at 1024*768, but it was flawless 60fps on a 4000+ AMD/7700 GT Nvidia,1 Gig DDR400, WinXP Home.

    Man I wish I could track this down.

    Attempting full reinstall of audio drivers as well.
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  • keinekeine Join Date: 2010-05-17 Member: 71792Members
    FIXED:

    And the FAQ wins.


    Set the HL.exe priority to "low", and solid 60fps.

    I thought this would have been corrected, but I guess not. Still a problem as of 5/18/2010.
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  • keinekeine Join Date: 2010-05-17 Member: 71792Members
    Does anyone know a workaround, instead of exiting setting "low" priority and entering each time I play the game.

    The link in the FAQ which address this issues just takes me the steam forums, where it says I do not have privileges to view the topic, even as I'm registered and verified.
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  • ObraxisObraxis Subnautica Animator & Generalist, NS2 Person Join Date: 2004-07-24 Member: 30071Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Silver, WC 2013 - Supporter, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    Your problem is probably the OpenGL driver, it isnt realy as optimised as it used to be, especially in WinVista/Win7.

    Switch your rendering to DirectX or Direct3D in the options and you should see your performance increase again.
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  • GiGaBiTeGiGaBiTe Join Date: 2003-10-07 Member: 21489Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1774364:date=Jun 11 2010, 05:17 AM:name=Obraxis)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Obraxis @ Jun 11 2010, 05:17 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1774364"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Your problem is probably the OpenGL driver, it isnt realy as optimised as it used to be, especially in WinVista/Win7.

    Switch your rendering to DirectX or Direct3D in the options and you should see your performance increase again.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    DX support in HL is terribad at best. Water fog (among other things) don't work at all, and things frequently bug up and look wrong.
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  • WarLoverWarLover Join Date: 2009-11-05 Member: 69276Members
    edited June 2010
    Just today i switch to D3D for rendering and now i can play the game.
    On start up i see the background for a brief second, then black screen.
    I can also hear the background music. I can't Ctrl-Alt-Del out but i can tab out.
    Anyone know a solution or how to set back to opengl rendering?
    Tried reinstalling.


    Edit:fixed added "-gl" to set launch option
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  • keinekeine Join Date: 2010-05-17 Member: 71792Members
    edited July 2010
    I have since made some changes to my system and I think the problem worsened.

    Now sitting on Win7x64 with 6gigs of DDR2800, with an ATI HD5770.

    What happens if I WANT to use the opengl renderer?

    See below.

    <a href="http://img192.imageshack.us/i/nsmarkssiege2v10000.png/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4140/nsmarkssiege2v10000.th.png" border="0" class="linked-image" /></a>

    Please note the 39.3 FPS in the photo.
    I've supported a support ticket to Valve. Upon turning off everything in MSCONFIG and my antivirus, I'm not seeing any changes.
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  • keinekeine Join Date: 2010-05-17 Member: 71792Members
    Tried Direct X. I don't like the "feel" of that renderer, as well as it also giving me bad fps.
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