Hello
Anyone else here that has been bitten by the L4D bug? I started playing this game the same day the demo was released, and immediatley bought it when the full game was released. I was hooked.
Not only was it one of the most awesome games out there, my hardware loved it. I could play 1280x800 with everything on high, and blast 80fps on average. Never did I see it drop below 60 fps - dozens of zombies on fire? No problem.
Then the game update came out... Rendering the game unplayable on my hardware. I got hit bad by the performance bug, really bad.
Valve forums L4D section: any one else notice a performance hit with the new patch
There has been a fix or two out, and it has apparently solved most of these issues, for me however it has done nothing. My performance in all Source based games are now completley unplayable. Thanks to a Steam client update propagating this bug to all my Source games.
Playing the game at the lowest settings I start out with more than 200 fps, and it slowly decreases (over 5 minutes or so) until I hover around the 20 fps mark, dropping to below 10 when there is action.
CS:S is having a tad different issue, here it roams the high 200 fps while I dont really need it, and as soon as I need my frames it consistently drops to 15-25.
I have tried everything at this point, reinstalled Windows three times, done a complete re-download of L4D multiple times. Tried most graphics drivers under the sun - my performance is unaffected.
My friends have seen a performance drop after the update, but no one has been hit as hard as me.
You can imagine how frustrating it is when my friends 7600gt SLI setup whops my rig back to the stoneage - before the update I had more than twice his performance, on much higher settings - Now he has three times mine.
Anyone else experiencing this on their rig? Is it a Quadro or mobile gpu issue? Laptop issue? Or is my graphics card on the way out?
Should be mentioned that all my other games have no noticeable slowdown - UT3/UT2K4, BF2, Stalker etc. is running as good as they always have - meaning there *should* be nothing physically wrong here.
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Anyone else here that has been bitten by the L4D bug? I started playing this game the same day the demo was released, and immediatley bought it when the full game was released. I was hooked.
Not only was it one of the most awesome games out there, my hardware loved it. I could play 1280x800 with everything on high, and blast 80fps on average. Never did I see it drop below 60 fps - dozens of zombies on fire? No problem.
Then the game update came out... Rendering the game unplayable on my hardware. I got hit bad by the performance bug, really bad.
Valve forums L4D section: any one else notice a performance hit with the new patch
There has been a fix or two out, and it has apparently solved most of these issues, for me however it has done nothing. My performance in all Source based games are now completley unplayable. Thanks to a Steam client update propagating this bug to all my Source games.
Playing the game at the lowest settings I start out with more than 200 fps, and it slowly decreases (over 5 minutes or so) until I hover around the 20 fps mark, dropping to below 10 when there is action.
CS:S is having a tad different issue, here it roams the high 200 fps while I dont really need it, and as soon as I need my frames it consistently drops to 15-25.
I have tried everything at this point, reinstalled Windows three times, done a complete re-download of L4D multiple times. Tried most graphics drivers under the sun - my performance is unaffected.
My friends have seen a performance drop after the update, but no one has been hit as hard as me.
You can imagine how frustrating it is when my friends 7600gt SLI setup whops my rig back to the stoneage - before the update I had more than twice his performance, on much higher settings - Now he has three times mine.
Anyone else experiencing this on their rig? Is it a Quadro or mobile gpu issue? Laptop issue? Or is my graphics card on the way out?
Should be mentioned that all my other games have no noticeable slowdown - UT3/UT2K4, BF2, Stalker etc. is running as good as they always have - meaning there *should* be nothing physically wrong here.
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