hl1 fps w/ 9800pro

[iconic-]

Well not quite sure if this is really a problem but id figure id post here, any insight/help would be awesome.

so playing tfc with a ati 9800pro 128/256, normally ill just max and hit 99, i turn dev on, and when theres no weapon model and no action i get 199 (but i can run around and all).

well yeah, anytime i go into any yard (i was just playing mulch_dm, but i noticed it the other day on schtop) my fps drops to right around 40. Im kind of puzzled because I've hard some people w/ gf4's that get steady 99fps constantly.

here are my specs

Pent 2.8ghz HT
ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128
1 Gig Ram

BTW i WAS playing at 1280... but brought it down to 1024... and still get the same problem. any help would be great. Im running the 4.12 ATI drivers.

 

[|Dystopia|]

Can't think of anything to fix it but I can offer confirmation that something is wrong.

I NEVER drop below 99/100 FPS even in a full 32 player TFC server in intense action. I play at 1115X824. My specs are :

AMD Athlon64 2800+
Asus Geforce3 64 (Just the plain original GF3, lol)
512 MB RAM

Even my old 1 Ghz Thunderbird with 386 MB RAM did'nt drop in framerate on TFC as I recall. Odd that you would drop. Maybe double check in the ATI CP if AA/AF is being forced. Heating issues? I had a GF4 Ti 4200 in my old system start doing weird things like drop FPS, artifact, then eventually cause a BSOD. Found out it got terribly overheated and blew a few caps and died.

 

[iconic-]

okay, set default 3d render to OpenGL and reinstalled my 4.12 drivers w/o the catylst control center (I always got an error when starting up saying CLI.exe wasn't right or something) and with dev_mode 1 on I can get about 130-150 fps.

 

[Cole]

It most likly is due to the fact that you probably have truform on.
Truform + open gl = Messed up Graphics + in certain areas MASSIVE FPS DROP.

I always turn off truform when playing HL\any of its mods.
For DX games u want it on, makes things look a bit smoother plus better fps.

 

[bam23]

take truform off, and type ati_npatch 0 in console

 

[Dark8Master89]

What the hell does that do? (command)