Multi Core Support

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

I know black mesa source does not support it… but didn’t episode 2 support it? The game is playable at times but then i dip to the single digits in fps and I know it is just because of this issue… will the game someday support it is my question? Actually im asking BMS to support it please! I have waited 8 years for this game and I do love it as I do half-life… but this stinks :confused:

multi core cpu 4 cores 2.66ghz intel
gpu - geforce 470 GTX - getting a 600 series asap.
4 gigs ddr3 ram

Portal 2 100+ fps.
Episode’s of half-life 100 fps+ with HDR

I turned off all performance check box’s in black mesa tab.

One more question… how do I set my fps to be a constant 100 fps?

Btw black mesa team as far as that being my only issue DAMN GOOD JOB! -hardcore half-life fan since 1999 :slight_smile:

#2

Try using “mat_queue_mode 2” :slight_smile:

#3

I played through the entire game with mat_queue_mode 1 (auto-enable multicore) and only had two crashes.

Also only had slowdown in two places: the garg chase right before you do the air strikes, and the final teleporter to Xen (those particle effects are REALLY slow).

#4

Playing through the first time with mat_queue_mode 2 i only had 2 crashes as well. My second playthrough had probably around 5 crashes, and now im playing through a 3rd time and its crashing all the damn time.

However i have reason to believe that the Black Mesa devs are working on a fix for multi core rendering because of how demanding the graphics are, and i also found a line of code in autoexec.cfg that says:

//exec threading.cfg

Threading.cfg does not exist anywhere in the BMS directory so i think it may be in the making.

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