Sorry it's come to this
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4 Mar 2008, 23:01
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I just cant seem to figure out whats wrong with ET.
Basically when ingame my fps stutters like a bitch, not low fps i mean it is constant 125 and then every split second drops completely then before its down its up again at 125 fps...then down again ( repeat if necessary to get the idea )
Now i thought it could of been a hardware problem so i ran CoD4 on max settings....super smooth
Next i ran TF2 on high settings....super smooth
Next i ran ET:QW on high settings to test if it was the cpu usage as qw is cpu based like et.....super smooth again.
Basically when ingame my fps stutters like a bitch, not low fps i mean it is constant 125 and then every split second drops completely then before its down its up again at 125 fps...then down again ( repeat if necessary to get the idea )
Now i thought it could of been a hardware problem so i ran CoD4 on max settings....super smooth
Next i ran TF2 on high settings....super smooth
Next i ran ET:QW on high settings to test if it was the cpu usage as qw is cpu based like et.....super smooth again.
Check what its (pnkbstra/pnkbstrb) Mem Usage is when your FPS drops, then whine as there's nothing you can do about it!
i got the same
restart Et 5/6 times and its gone, got the same
you can try the following things:
- wait with connecting to a server till in the console shows up that it installed punkbusterB successfully and then connect.
- try one of the following commands ingame:
/pb_sleep 20 to 500, what works best for you
/pb_system 0
- Try putting ET on two cores with the priority on realtime
and if it is PB thats doing it ( which makes sense what bull says cos every once in a while it doesnt stutter at all when i startup ) then im happy my new comp isnt fucked :)
*edit*
lol spree thats exactly how i was fixing it when it first started happening, but yesterday the game kept crashing after 5mins when i done it :<
But it's teh real <3
if the prob aint there on non pb then the prob is deep...I had a similar prob for like months where I would connect to a server, play 5 mins then my et and pc would freeze resulting in system restart. I sent pb many post about the prob, did many fdisks and everything but to no avail..
I ended up trashing my pc and getting another....
All this time, other games like cod2 and css worked perfect...:(
ok so update.
the lag is gone after i reinstalled everything and changed some gfx driver settings, the thread optimiser in particular.
jumped on bio, it ran super smooth like usual... except it crashed 5mins after i joined :(
"send error report now"... i do... and dont get anything back !
n1 windows
off to bed, ill try again tomorrow
love you all
now talk to the hand :<
jog on.
but i've turn that thread thing off and it seems to work alrite now...