FPS Drops

Nimbus5Nimbus5 Join Date: 2003-11-15 Member: 22885Members, Constellation
in Tech Support
I have been running NS on this current setup for many months. For a while everything was completely fine. Then about 2 months ago, I started getting random FPS drops every few seconds. <b>I maintain a constant 125 FPS, with random drops to 5 or so in between. </b>

I was happy once 3.2 was released for CM testing, because for some reason I did not receive any FPS drops in version 3.2. I was able to play the CM release with no problems.

However, I just installed the public beta and the FPS drops are back. <b>What is different between the CM release and the public beta that could cause this?<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" /></b>

<b>I am able to run any other HL1 mod perfectly fine.</b> Every game I have runs great except NS. I have tried reinstalling, rolling back my drivers, etc, but nothing seems to work.

<b>My Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
2gb DDR2 5400
7900GT</b>

This should be more than enough to run this game, so does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm getting these annoying FPS drops?<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />?

Also I forgot to add:

Turning on vsync fixes the problem, however I would really like to keep my constant 125 fps, and with vsync on the highest I can go is 75 (my monitor sucks.).
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  • Garet_JaxGaret_Jax Join Date: 2003-02-23 Member: 13870Members, Constellation
    svchost?
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  • Nimbus5Nimbus5 Join Date: 2003-11-15 Member: 22885Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1580404:date=Nov 24 2006, 01:55 PM:name=Garet_Jax)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Garet_Jax @ Nov 24 2006, 01:55 PM) [snapback]1580404[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    svchost?
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    <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />?
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  • DarKrODarKrO Join Date: 2005-05-01 Member: 50600Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    He suggests maybe background services are causing it.

    And Omg, garet = that guy from NSP ?

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  • Nimbus5Nimbus5 Join Date: 2003-11-15 Member: 22885Members, Constellation
    Well as I said in my post, the problem I'm having is ONLY in NS. Every other game/mod on my computer run without problems.
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  • pSyk0mAnpSyk0mAn Nerdish by Nature Germany Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19166Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Silver, NS2 Community Developer
    I just recognized having this problem, too, but only when I change resolution in-game and ns restarts.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    HL Engine has been fickle in the last couple of updates, when I get it I just record a demo and it fixes the drops.
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