Odd FPS drop

tablotablo Join Date: 2012-11-27 Member: 173454Members
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I'm in college and i live in nearby apartments in San Diego. When I play NS2 here on my rather old laptop, I get around only 15-21 fps while in options screen...seeing this already halts me from joining a game. However, sometimes when i go home in LA, I get around 40-45 fps when I am looking at the options screen, and 25-30 ingame (early game) which is acceptable by me. How in the world does that make sense?!? I had that 40-45 fps just 2 days ago at home, but now only have 15-21 fps here in SD. Also, the weekend before thanksgiving I also had the crappy fps while playing in SD. I am perplexed as to how my fps can change so drastically depending on my physical location. Anybody encountering this also?
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  • Jarl Ballin'Jarl Ballin' Join Date: 2012-11-25 Member: 173203Members
    Probably because you played at your house before a patch and in SD after a patch. Reports have been saying performance has been decreasing with the new patches.
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  • blzdblzd Join Date: 2012-04-01 Member: 149806Members
    The 20 FPS in the menu was probably using IGP instead of dedicated graphics, they've fixed the game detecting the proper GPU now at least.
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  • FunkyMikeFunkyMike Join Date: 2012-11-05 Member: 167455Members
    <!--quoteo(post=2038198:date=Nov 30 2012, 06:51 PM:name=blzd)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (blzd @ Nov 30 2012, 06:51 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=2038198"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The 20 FPS in the menu was probably using IGP instead of dedicated graphics, they've fixed the game detecting the proper GPU now at least.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    At first I thought it was exactly this issue but there is more to it.

    I still get times when the game goes 50% less FPS upon startup.


    ATI 6850M + HD 3000 here

    performance also dropped with latest patch.
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