FPS problem on de_dust

[Ren.182]

Recently i've been getting low fps in de_dust. It's especially low when i'm in the corridoor with the tiles. But if i look up in that corridoor then my fps goes back to normal. I'm guessing it's something to do with the AA. It never used to do it before its only happened in the last 2 or 3 days maybe and i haven't changed my AA settings.

I also have the latest drivers for gfx card.

My comp:
Pentium 4 HT 2.66Ghz
ATI RADEON 9800SE 128mb
512mb RAM

Thanks for any help

 

[krig]

When did you update your graphics drivers? It's possible a driver may be acting wierd on your system from your last update.

 

[Ren.182]

I updated it when Ati released there 4.12 drivers. Which was more than a week ago and they worked fine since about tuesday.

 

[krig]

Wierd. Have you tried to revert back to the previous one?

 

[Ren.182]

No. This update gave me a boost of 20 fps, so i don't really wanna revert back just for one map...

 

[Sainku]

I think it has something to do with the tiles. Maybe the shader or something. I had this same problem when I switched texture quality to high. Even though on all other maps with it I got great fps, dust/2 seemed really slow in the halls with the tiles. I just went back to medium and it ran great.

 

[Ren.182]

Spose i'll have to change some setting when i play dust1/2. If anyone has any other suggestions on how to fix this then please let me know.

I'm going to try defragging my PC tonight, see if that will speed anything up a bit.

 

[TrippyG]

Spose i'll have to change some setting when i play dust1/2. If anyone has any other suggestions on how to fix this then please let me know.

I'm going to try defragging my PC tonight, see if that will speed anything up a bit.

I had to defrag my comp twice because steam/hl2 had messed my hd so bad... my comp worked like it was 300Mhz P1 and if u check my sig... u can see that I really have a crappy comp

 

[Ren.182]

Yeah your comp is teh suX0r (Nice comp by the way )

Well i defreagged last night, woke up this morning and it was asking for the boot disk for some reason. It wanted me to reinstall windows :S

But i just put it in and rebooted, then when it says "Press any key to boot from disk..." I didn't bother then it worked fine. I've yet to try dust yet though.

 

[CombineHarvester]

I find that Aztec stutters for me, expecially at the CT spawn bombsite. I go round the box to plant the bomb and my frame rate drops by about half. Very peculiar.

 

[FearoftheDomoKun]

All other CS:S maps are fine for me, except Dust and Dust2. I can play them, but at less FPS.