Jeremy wrote:
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Started playing some Portal this morning, and noticed that performance is
absolutely abysmal for me. From my experience with modding I checked the
budget graph to see what the heck was killing the framerate, and like some
of the users of our mod(FF), who have also upgraded to the latest nvidia
drivers(which claim to improve TF2 performance), it destroys the performance
in other HL2 based games.
The +showbudget graph shows swap buffers and CViewRender::Render pegged when
the game runs like ass, which is about 70% of the time for me in portal. The
rest of the time the game runs fine.
Some users of Fortress Forever have reported this same problem after
upgrading their drivers for TF2 and then trying to come back and play FF,and
even HL2DM and CS:S
http://www.omni-bot.com/_misc/testchmb_a_010000.jpg
I've not observed this issue in other games using these drivers yet, but I
wanted to bring this to Valves attention in case some change in TF2 that
these drivers take advantage of could be adversely effecting older HL2
engine games or something like that
Which nVidia card are you running on?
I HATE the way nVidia "tunes" their drivers for specific games. On some
(of the more popular) cards, you see improvement, but on other nVidia
cards, you actually get worse performance. This can be corrected for
most games by simply renaming the .exe excutable to something else (and
the driver won't recognize that game and won't "tune" things for that
game and will just use generic settings). ATI rules. Nvidia, not so
much. :)
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Jeffrey "botman" Broome
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