whats with the low preformance?

[Sanius]

Recently I've gotten a geforce 6800, upgraded from a geforce 2, and i'm pretty happy with it. it runs farcry and doom 3 great on high quality..but half-life 2 is another thing

I am playing it at 1024x768 high quality with 2x aa/af, and frames aren't that great. They will be atleast 40 or so on water hazard, and it's worse when i'm in a gun fight..i've tried drivers 66.91 and the latest from forceware. whats going on?

geforce 6800
amd 2500+
512 mb of ram

 

[jsc1286]

Half-Life 2 is very CPU-dependent. So if anything, you should also consider upgrading your 2500+.

 

[63]

Yeah, it's the cpu...

 

[MigaS_tX]

More 700 and it should run better!

I have a 2,6

 

[LittleB]

Ohhhh nooooo 40 fps! The sky is falling! It's apocolypse now!!

I get 15 fps in water hazard...

 

[sinkoman]

Bleh. I don't even see why people complain about fps. Just turn off cl_showfps and you won't notice till it drops to 10. I know I didn't. I was to engrossed in the game to notice I was getting 20 fps.

Btw, water hazard was the best level. Loved the chopper.

 

[Sanius]

ugh. you guys are no help, I was asking for tweaks, or things I should set in my card, not "your cpu sucks xD". and water hazard gives me more like 25 fps. thats if i'm in the water..which it's filled with.

ah well. i'll see how other places run, but I wouldn't mind if people could give me hints on how to increase fps.

 

[63]

but I wouldn't mind if people could give me hints on how to increase fps.

We did dumbdumb, BUY A NEW CPU. :cheers:

 

[Seph]

You could always install the newest omegadrivers.. unless you havn't already that is. That did the trick for me

 

[giant384]

tweaking your video card will barely do anything have u not been listening its the cpu isnt a 2500 like 2ghz?

 

[giant384]

or u can turn some settings at medium that is the only thing u can do

 

[Sanius]

You could always install the newest omegadrivers.. unless you havn't already that is. That did the trick for me

thanks seph, i'll try that.

 

[Asus]

Just for a test, turn up the resolution and see if it gives you about the same FPS. Your GPU might be waiting for your CPU.

That doesn't raise your FPS though. Have to turn world detail down for that. Or stop apps running on your desktop.

 

[OD-Black_Fire]

Add a stick of ram and boost that mofo to 1 gig, then update your proccessor. Problem fixed. Oh, and if anyone is wondering why he's complaining, 6800's usualy get higher than 40fps. Look at the benchmarks.

 

[Sanius]

lol. i'll get a gig and a new processer next christmas. I used the omega drivers, and water hazard runs like silk. thanks seph! :cheers:

 

[Biggleska]

I've got a 6800GT too, full settings/4xaa 16xaf/1024x768
(Athlon XP3000+/1024mb RAM) and the game runs brilliantly in all parts.

 

[rocket_Magnet]

while i havent managed to get into the game yet (my crap spelling is due to the fact steam is eating at my cpu decrypting as we speak) i was wondering if anyone knows how to let the source engine know it can swallow my ram ? my graphics is a 5900ultra which isnt to great but i have a p4 3.2gig and 2 gig of ddr400, while i cant say about hl2, doom3 and far cry were both happy to fall back on both the ram and the processor (particularly the ram) now almost all games will have a defined limit of ram theyre allowed to take up, its normally set to 128 or something, id like to throw that up to 1 gig... i mean when ut2004 is running with it knowing about the ram, its takes up 600mb ram and runs perfectly...

so in an incredibly long winded and incoherent fashion ive asked if anyone knows how to change the amount of ram hl2 uses, using a console command (cachemegs or cache heap or something)

 

[CookieCuttah]

The eye doesn't even register a diffrence between 25 and 40...Actualyl if you run it at 40 or 70 your getting basicly the same package except you have less chances to slow down at 70 and it looks a bit better.

 

[GinandJuice]

Since you have an AMD processor, r_3dnow 1, in console. Good game. Youll get on average a better 10-15 fps.

 

[GRIMEY]

The eye doesn't even register a diffrence between 25 and 40...

Wrong.

 

[Coolhead2100]

You could try increasing the heap size (memory allocated to the game) It defualts to 64 mb, which is fairly low. I would set it to something higher, around 256 mb. Just add this command to the launch options in Half-Life 2 > Properties:

-heapsize 262144

That might help in some intensive areas, but one thing that helped a lot was changing reflections from "Reflect All" to the lowest setting. But this shouldn't help much in your sittutation considering your graphics card.

People have also said that they gained about 10 frames per second by using Steam offline mode. But doing this also prevents you from playing any multiplayer games.. obviously.

A few other commands may help your frame rate, but theres were used to avoid the stuttering that many people were running into.

cl_forcepreload "1"
sv_forcepreload "1"
cl_smooth "0"

And of course there are Windows performance tweaks. Anything as simple as closing any open applications, to running spyware cleaners, or to cleaning out your registry could help you gain that extra 1 frame per second. Overclocking might also help out a bit. I assume your processor is running at 1.8 ghz, so increasing that to 2.0 or even. 2.1 could yield much higher results.