Crippling Video Bug, Plz Help!
Scuzball
Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20657Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20657Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">*cries a river*</div> So NS looks like crap on D3D for me, and I put it on OpenGL.
Now <i>most</i> of the game is smooth as silk... but some maps murder my comp.
Certain hives or areas drop my FPS from about 90 to literally 2 or 3. The sound gets choppy. Basically, I become bait. You can imagine how this affects my aim or even my ability to notice an enemy standing in front of me.
WHAT FIXES THIS? Is there a way at all? Is it just the maps? Or am I just stuck with D3D forever?
Now <i>most</i> of the game is smooth as silk... but some maps murder my comp.
Certain hives or areas drop my FPS from about 90 to literally 2 or 3. The sound gets choppy. Basically, I become bait. You can imagine how this affects my aim or even my ability to notice an enemy standing in front of me.
WHAT FIXES THIS? Is there a way at all? Is it just the maps? Or am I just stuck with D3D forever?
Comments
what kind of system do you have?
It runs games like AvP2 smoothly, why not good 'ol Half Life?
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that should help
this is a mixed blessing
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Gah, ATI cards and Vsync off in half-life... bad combo. VERY BAD. Lets hope he has an old nvidia.
A better video card would probably be a sound investment, given that 16MB cards were around the TNT or TNT2 era. Hiverooms (and Marine Spawn) tend to be built in a lot. All those extra structures are additional polys, which could quite likely be killing a slower card.
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And yes, I could play AvP2 perfectly with my old onboard card. Personally I blame Steam, as "normal" HL runs perfectly. Go figure.
You could probably even get a card significantly better than what you have now for free. People throw that stuff away, particularly businesses, or that friend of yours who just spent $300-500 on a shiny top of the line card.