Massive FPS drops on certain savegames

Black Mesa Archive In-game Issues (Mod)
#1

I ran into this issue a couple of times throughout the game but I didn’t really reproduce it until the very end (because I could progress anyway).

Basically, at the very end, in the teleporter room, my FPS is fine, but if I save the game when the aliens are about to start spawning and then reload that save then my framerate is f***ed. It got to be quite annoying because when I died I had to revert back to the autosave and watch the whole teleporter start-up sequence again. I tried saving both from the menu and with a quicksave but it didn’t have any effect.

#2

What are your system specs, and is anything odd (red text) showing up in the console?

#3

Now that you mentioned it, there’s a load of stuff.
My specs are Q6600, GTX260, WinXP SP3 (I think)

#4

I have this “late precache” problem too. The game hangs for a second at the moment a creature dies. It happens only once with each new enemy on every new level.
btw HL2, EP1/2 run smoothly.

#5

Hi,
Same problems of “late precache”, game run smoothly on my i7 2600k / 6Gb of RAM / HD5850, but sometimes i’ve some freezes due to these, it makes me crazy :’(
No tried Episode 1 or 2, or even HL2 main campaign (i’ve just reinstalled it for BMS :slight_smile: ). Mod bugs of Source problems?

#6

Console example:

Loading game from //MOD/SAVE/bm_c1a1e.HL1...
Error! Variable "$detail" is multiply defined in material "models/xenians/houndeye/houndeye"!
Error! Variable "$detailscale" is multiply defined in material "models/xenians/houndeye/houndeye"!
Error! Variable "$detailblendfactor" is multiply defined in material "models/xenians/houndeye/houndeye"!
Error! Variable "$detailblendmode" is multiply defined in material "models/xenians/houndeye/houndeye"!
Error! Variable "$surfaceprop" is multiply defined in material "models/props_c17/oil_drum_chunks001a"!
Error! Variable "$detail" is multiply defined in material "models/xenians/bullsquid/diffuse_2"!
Error! Variable "$detailscale" is multiply defined in material "models/xenians/bullsquid/diffuse_2"!
Error! Variable "$detailblendfactor" is multiply defined in material "models/xenians/bullsquid/diffuse_2"!
Error! Variable "$detailblendmode" is multiply defined in material "models/xenians/bullsquid/diffuse_2"!
unrecognized conditional test !lowfill?$startfadesize in particle/smoke1/smoke1
unrecognized conditional test lowfill?$startfadesize in particle/smoke1/smoke1
unrecognized conditional test !lowfill?$endfadesize in particle/smoke1/smoke1
unrecognized conditional test lowfill?$endfadesize in particle/smoke1/smoke1
unrecognized conditional test lowfill?$blendframes in particle/smoke1/smoke1
unrecognized conditional test !lowfill?$depthblend in particle/smoke1/smoke1
unrecognized conditional test lowfill?$depthblend in particle/smoke1/smoke1
Requesting texture value from var "$basetexture" which is not a texture value (material: particle/smokestack)
Requesting texture value from var "$basetexture" which is not a texture value (material: particle/smokestack)
Requesting texture value from var "$basetexture" which is not a texture value (material: particle/smokestack)
Redownloading all lightmaps
Late precache of models/gibs/houndeye/right_leg_lower.mdl
Late precache of models/gibs/houndeye/right_leg_upper.mdl
Late precache of models/gibs/houndeye/back_leg.mdl
Late precache of models/gibs/houndeye/left_leg.mdl

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