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Phirax
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I have read many times that Valves Source engine performs really well over a huge scale of hardware. If this is true I can’t understand how my system struggles to keep the game at a reasonable frame rate no matter the situation, especially since the recent patches have been released.
My System,
AMD Athlon 2800+ (Barton) CPU @ 2.45Ghz
Asus A7V8X Rev 1.04 Mainboard
Kingston HyperX PC3200 1024 MB Ram
HiS Radeon 9800 Pro IceQ 128 MB
Philips Acoustic Sound Edge (QSound)
Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 SE
Microsoft Windows XP Pro with SP2
Now I know my system is not exactly top of the range, but its not a pooper either. I would assume it should have no problems maintaining a half-decent frame rate with HL2 and other Source games.
I purchased the standard retail (5 CD) version of HL2 and had no problems installing, however decrypting took roughly 3 hours (I guess because of the load on Steam servers). Once done and offline mode was made available I loaded up HL2 and began to play. I had no problems with performance or sound stuttering. But I did experience the ‘psychedelic patterns’ as ATi called it. I fixed the graphics corruption by disabling an ATi feature called AI (even to this day I don’t know what it is). So now I was running the game without a problem. At this stage I was using ATi Catalyst 4.9.
Then disaster struck, Valve decides to release a few patches, and now no matter what drivers I use 4.9, 4.11 or 4.12 etc, my system just crawls along. Before the patches I used to get a 50-130 frame rate at 1280x1024 everything on High, Reflect World, No FSAA, Trilinear Filtering. Now the game runs at a rate of 5-25 no matter, even if I am looking at nothing but a wall and no matter what graphics setting I run the game in. I also now experience that common sound stuttering problem, although its isn’t to bad. I have re-installed the game several times to see if I can run the game pre-patched, but it always patches itself (even with do not automatically patch selected in the Steam game properties) when I have to first initialise the game with Steam.
Why does Valve force you to Patch the game with steam (even when you don’t play any multiplier games)?
What is the expected performance/graphic settings for my Radeon 9800 Pro?
Is there a way to remove installed updates/patches?
Is there a way to run HL2 without steam running legally?
Any ideas what changes the patches have made so I could try and restore it to behave like the pre-patched version?
My System,
AMD Athlon 2800+ (Barton) CPU @ 2.45Ghz
Asus A7V8X Rev 1.04 Mainboard
Kingston HyperX PC3200 1024 MB Ram
HiS Radeon 9800 Pro IceQ 128 MB
Philips Acoustic Sound Edge (QSound)
Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 SE
Microsoft Windows XP Pro with SP2
Now I know my system is not exactly top of the range, but its not a pooper either. I would assume it should have no problems maintaining a half-decent frame rate with HL2 and other Source games.
I purchased the standard retail (5 CD) version of HL2 and had no problems installing, however decrypting took roughly 3 hours (I guess because of the load on Steam servers). Once done and offline mode was made available I loaded up HL2 and began to play. I had no problems with performance or sound stuttering. But I did experience the ‘psychedelic patterns’ as ATi called it. I fixed the graphics corruption by disabling an ATi feature called AI (even to this day I don’t know what it is). So now I was running the game without a problem. At this stage I was using ATi Catalyst 4.9.
Then disaster struck, Valve decides to release a few patches, and now no matter what drivers I use 4.9, 4.11 or 4.12 etc, my system just crawls along. Before the patches I used to get a 50-130 frame rate at 1280x1024 everything on High, Reflect World, No FSAA, Trilinear Filtering. Now the game runs at a rate of 5-25 no matter, even if I am looking at nothing but a wall and no matter what graphics setting I run the game in. I also now experience that common sound stuttering problem, although its isn’t to bad. I have re-installed the game several times to see if I can run the game pre-patched, but it always patches itself (even with do not automatically patch selected in the Steam game properties) when I have to first initialise the game with Steam.
Why does Valve force you to Patch the game with steam (even when you don’t play any multiplier games)?
What is the expected performance/graphic settings for my Radeon 9800 Pro?
Is there a way to remove installed updates/patches?
Is there a way to run HL2 without steam running legally?
Any ideas what changes the patches have made so I could try and restore it to behave like the pre-patched version?
