I’ve been getting FPS ranging from 120 (my max) to 15. The fluctuating concerns me.
What is going on? This is the only Source game this is happening on. CPU usage is very high for TF2 (hl2.exe), and nothing else seems to be using resources abnormally.
(3.35 GHz AMD Athlon II X2 260, ATI Radeon 5850 HD, 8 GB RAM)
Also, could someone explain to me which clock speed I should care about?
Wait didnt you just have low res texture problems too?
Bring up task manager ( ctrl+alt+delete ) and find your TF2 program ( hl2.exe ).
Right click on it and scroll down to ‘set priority’. Click on ‘High’ and confirm. That ought to give you a boost to get away form those choke points.
If it doesn’t work, well…
Fuck. I dont know then…
That ended up being new drivers resetting stuff in CCC.
I’ll disable some minor stuff, but my frame rate hasn’t always bounced like this. Making the game ugly is just a quick fix. Thanks though.
Get a better CPU.
Seriously.
I used to have an AMD 240 @ 3.6 with my AMD 5770. It was a painful bottleneck, and your graphics card is even faster than mine. Get an AMD Phenom II +.
That 5850 deserves better.
Yeah, I agree. That’s high on my list to do before this Sept.
But, this is TF2. Not Crysis or anything. 
Do you have multiple cores? Try disabling Multicore Rendering if you do.
Madness!
I’ll try it for shits and giggles.
I was going to suggest this.
I had issues with it, with my Quad core. Runs better for me with it off.
Just out of curiosity, does your game run smooth, until you movethe mouse? because my game does that, renders it unplayable.
lol ya get a new CPU that is totally necessary for a 4 year old game built to run on hardware even older.
Anyways ever since the updates tf2 has had a lot of FPS issues. https://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1093560 try this. If not a quick google should yield some results.
With your system on tf2 there should be no reason to have to result to an FPS config though.
Edit: Also under properties for the game on steam, try defragmenting cache files.
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