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ThunderStain
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#1
12-23-2009, 05:22 PM

I bought deus ex off steam and it runs terribly. Brief google searches told me to mess with what cpu its running on but then that disables steam. Anybody else have come across the same issue and have a fix for it?


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12-23-2009, 06:35 PM

Are you running a laptop with a multi-core processor.  I know when I played Deus ex on my duel core, it would get either stupid fast or really slow.  The solution was to go into the program's process after it had started and set the affinity to just one of the CPU cores.
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12-23-2009, 11:56 PM

I had the same issue with System Shock 2. Go with what bacon said.
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12-23-2009, 11:56 PM

(12-23-2009, 11:56 PM)Karthmas link Wrote: I had the same issue with System Shock 2. Go with what bacon said.
Oh yeah, I had forgotten that happened with that game too.  Except I crashed.
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12-24-2009, 12:20 AM

(12-23-2009, 11:56 PM)Greatbacon link Wrote: [quote author=Karthmas link=topic=4021.msg128486#msg128486 date=1261630568]
I had the same issue with System Shock 2. Go with what bacon said.
Oh yeah, I had forgotten that happened with that game too.  Except I crashed.
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yeah, what I meant. Terrible frame rate and crashing.
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01-13-2010, 08:46 AM

This thread happens to have an appropriate title. However, the frame rate issues I am having are in TF2.

I used to get 150+ FPS in massive firefights while having the kritz effect on maximum settings at 1920 x 1080. Now, I get 20-40 FPS on the sniper battlements of 2fort. I'm pretty sure this is not a hardware problem, seeing as I can run almost any other game on maximum settings smoothly. As for software, I've tried most of the fixes I could find. Updated drivers, defragged this and that, added an exception in my antivirus, Gamebooster, set core 0 affinity off, lowered my settings...nothing. I was able to get ~130 FPS by crouching in this one spot I found, but if I moved, it dropped.

This is what makes me think it's something else. The first screenshot is the lowest settings I could set. The second is highest.

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01-13-2010, 08:50 AM

Every update made to source lowers FPS, the only work around is to buy a better card  :-X


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01-13-2010, 09:50 AM

not really the card that's the problem though, you can tell just because the framerate doesn't vary that much according to settings. It's all cpu :\

what kind of cpu do you have?


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01-13-2010, 10:34 AM

(01-13-2010, 08:50 AM)Caffeine link Wrote: Every update made to source lowers FPS, the only work around is to buy a better card  :-X
I've got a GTX 260.

(01-13-2010, 09:50 AM)CopulatingDuck link Wrote: not really the card that's the problem though, you can tell just because the framerate doesn't vary that much according to settings. It's all cpu :\

what kind of cpu do you have?
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.33GHz


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01-13-2010, 11:08 AM

getting slightly behind the times with that unfortunately, have you tried defragging your game and verifying cache? dual-core mode enabled?


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01-13-2010, 11:27 AM

(01-13-2010, 11:08 AM)CopulatingDuck link Wrote: getting slightly behind the times with that unfortunately, have you tried defragging your game and verifying cache? dual-core mode enabled?

Not sure if they fixed it or not, but before dual core mode was causing me to blue screen Sad

You can't use all 4 of those cores on TF2 at once, it can only take 2(?) at a time if you have multicore enabled.


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01-13-2010, 11:57 AM

(01-13-2010, 11:08 AM)CopulatingDuck link Wrote: getting slightly behind the times with that unfortunately, have you tried defragging your game and verifying cache? dual-core mode enabled?
Yes, yes, and tried both on and off. It works better with dual-core enabled.


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#13
01-15-2010, 07:26 PM

overclock if you can. I had the same issue until I just bought a new CPU, since my old one wouldn't let me OC :-\



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