Game lags for about a minute since update.
SupremeThroneX
Join Date: 2013-03-20 Member: 184093Members
Join Date: 2013-03-20 Member: 184093Members
Alright, so every now and then after playing for a while, my game lags heavily. About 20 FPS and I lose a lot of control from my mouse. I tried running profile during these lag sessions and the spikes aren't very high. It isn't network related because my ping doesn't increase during the lag, also I don't teleport back to an original location. Instead it feels like im running at 10 FPS and it gets really hard to move with my mouse. I will upload a profile should someone ask for it. In the mean time, has anyone else experienced something like this? I already deleted my cache folder in roaming.
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The thing most descriving your experience was a completely loss of free memory I had once, and completely ns2 unrelated. But it matches your problem description quite a lot.
edit: I also lose mouse input for <1 second, and that happens more often.
How was it unrelated? I got the same feeling as well mostly due to a programmers point of view. Although some of the clues I got from profile was that it had something to do with Direct 3D rendering however it is contradicted by r_stats in which it says the GPU is at a constant 0ms. The only thing I find that correlates with the problem is the new update. I have never had this problem before. I will play again to check what my memory is at, and also my CPU although that IS usually maxed out given that its only a Dual Core Duo at 3.0ghz (cant overclock, crappy mobo is already maxed out).
Any other tests I can try out? How about some programs or console commands that will help me with these tests? It happens frequently although it is randomly.
I will try playing NS2 on another computer to see if it might be a network problem.
I'm on an i5 2500 at 3.3GHz. 7970 and 8GB of RAM
I had this once where i was playing NS2 when something non related (3d video thumbnail) was leaking memory.
I must say, steam has a weird way of storing the screenshots.
As you can see, it does not look like much lag. However, it is skipping, and controlling with the mouse is quite difficult. Hell i saw lag going into the console and typing in profile. Their was about a 2 second delay for every letter to appear.
If you need any specific screens I will do another profile and open up which ever drop downs you want. I dropped down the most significant ones (ie the bigger purple bars, and the ones that show the highest yellow lag points). Also, it isn't a network problem. My weaker laptop performs just fine.
Still have yet to check the memory usage. Maybe Ill try different ram.
Press F12 to take it with steam. Print screen doesn't work.
Now for the second thing I noticed : how in the hell did you manage to press the space bar that quickly!?? Every single one of those shots has the right most bar selected, the last frame rendered, notice how its the most red of all the bars at the bottom of the screen? How?? Really?
So ya, see my instructions again in the link I provided previously in here, and be sure to use the bracket keys to select the tallest frame at the bottom of your screen or else I'm afraid it's not very useful.
Thank you!
Okay so I learned a little bit more when i found the instructions. Still odd though. I found the ones with the biggest purple bars. however i only had ONE shot of all the numbers at the top in yellow that was not random. Further more, the red bars actually signal lagging, most of the time they are at a constant low red bar fairly even, including during combat.
Disappointing though, I like figuring out what causes issues.
But I never saw it on a player who had no issues.
Basically makes the game unplayable (<20 FPS).
Start with making profiler shots also
The profiler should be fixed for the next patch, and hopefully we can get a clearer sense of whats going on..
I'm curious if the profiler will show what i experienced: D3D:PresentSurfaces
Is this how it is for you now?
These FPS spikes happen just as often as pre-patch FWIW.