Frame rate problems

[Gh0st Face Killah]

I seem to be experiencing noticable drops in my frame rate recently while playing. This has only happened after I had to reinstall cs after cs:cz borked my original installation. It used to sit quite happily at around the 72 mark with very little deviation from this. now during games I have seen it drop down to as low as 25. I have checked all my rate settings and have no extra textures running. I have installed the csru final edition but i was running this before the install with no problems.

[OldBloke]

CSRU FE installs an added cvar called r_detailtextures (or similar).

If it's set to 1 it can affect fps. Try setting it to 0.

[Gh0st Face Killah]

Ended up having to totally uninstall csru and that seems to have cured it. Its odd because before I installed CZ it worked just fine with the csru pack installed. It was only after cz borked my steam installation and i had to reinstall that i had the fps problems.

[smite]

I couldn't use CSRU for the same reason...uninstalled it and it worked fine.

(that was with detailtextures off)

[Gh0st Face Killah]

Its a shame really because its a really nice package.

[Maus]

This is where my NS knowledge comes in, as detailtextures were most widely tested by the NS mapping community,

r_detailtextures has a very minimal effect on fps - it's utterly negligible unless you're running a terribly old video card, and then it's unlikely that the card would support detailtextures.

Also, r_detailtextures will only affect fps if it is both active AND there's a detailtextures set being used on the map (it requires a text file telling the engine what detail textures to render over what map textures - if it's not present then no detailtextures will be rendered). It's not what was causing the problem.

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I've had weird fps issues too recently though, thanks to smoke grenades. It was all running perfectly smoothly til I switched to 32bpp, and now I'm back down to 16bpp I'm still dropping from 70+ to around 30 when I'm near a smoke gren. Most annoying.

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GFK - what was nicest about the package? You could always just grab Half Life Model Viewer ( http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft ) and Sprite View ( http://www.valve-erc.com/files/resources/sprview.zip ) and you can pick through the pack for the bits you want, and skip anything that's potentially framerate-harming.