Oyaji291
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xposted from steam forums. thanks in advance for any help
Okay, here's the situation. I'm quite fond of the original Half Life, been playing it for years. I've been playing Day of Defeat lately and having this strange problem with my mouse movements. The framerates, though detestable to some degree, are NOT unbearable. They drop to an average of 30fps at worst.
The problem itself is that whenever I move the mouse, it seemingly, almost at random, freezes in place. Like, the game itself isn't stuttery, no audio problems, no unnoticed ping drops, just that weird choppy effect. It's almost as if I'm moving the mouse and, though I'm still moving, my vision is caught as if pressed against a wall. It does this for maybe half a second at the most then twitches to that direction erratically. When it doesn't hit that 'wall' it's fine. But it does this often.
This is a real problem as it seriously negates my ability to aim most of the time and is just plain annoying and making the game less than enjoyable.
I am playing on a FRESH installation of DoD on a fresh install of HL, fresh Steam, fresh Windows, etc. (I just put this computer together recently, was having difficulties with my last one). Now this comes at a shock to me. The framerates being so low are bad enough considering the fact that I have a system more than capable of running HL1.
Specs are:
AMD A64 2700+
1gb PC2700
Sapphire Radeon x1650 512mb
ASUS K7v mobo
The internet connection is quite garbage here, but certainly capable of handling activity from a full DoD server.
Mayhaps I am missing a detail? Any suggestions I'd love to hear them. I've tried fiddling with resolution and rendering options, but nothing seems to help.
Ah, an annoying tidbit- source games run FINE on my computer, but HL1 and DoD seem to be the only thing on this entire system that has the problem. Even the framerates in all other games are a step up from HL1.
Okay, here's the situation. I'm quite fond of the original Half Life, been playing it for years. I've been playing Day of Defeat lately and having this strange problem with my mouse movements. The framerates, though detestable to some degree, are NOT unbearable. They drop to an average of 30fps at worst.
The problem itself is that whenever I move the mouse, it seemingly, almost at random, freezes in place. Like, the game itself isn't stuttery, no audio problems, no unnoticed ping drops, just that weird choppy effect. It's almost as if I'm moving the mouse and, though I'm still moving, my vision is caught as if pressed against a wall. It does this for maybe half a second at the most then twitches to that direction erratically. When it doesn't hit that 'wall' it's fine. But it does this often.
This is a real problem as it seriously negates my ability to aim most of the time and is just plain annoying and making the game less than enjoyable.
I am playing on a FRESH installation of DoD on a fresh install of HL, fresh Steam, fresh Windows, etc. (I just put this computer together recently, was having difficulties with my last one). Now this comes at a shock to me. The framerates being so low are bad enough considering the fact that I have a system more than capable of running HL1.
Specs are:
AMD A64 2700+
1gb PC2700
Sapphire Radeon x1650 512mb
ASUS K7v mobo
The internet connection is quite garbage here, but certainly capable of handling activity from a full DoD server.
Mayhaps I am missing a detail? Any suggestions I'd love to hear them. I've tried fiddling with resolution and rendering options, but nothing seems to help.
Ah, an annoying tidbit- source games run FINE on my computer, but HL1 and DoD seem to be the only thing on this entire system that has the problem. Even the framerates in all other games are a step up from HL1.
