FIXED - L4D2 Performance Issues

What in the world is going on?

I've had this weird COOP issue lately when I play. My FPS shoots down to 20 or so, making it unplayable.

I can have as low as 20 ping.

The ONLY change/off-looking value is my FPS.

Even on the US PRCO server (with < 5 players,) this happens. Symptoms are; freezing/lagging hard when I turn around as survivor... Freezing, having to CTRL+ALT+DEL out of L4D2...

I can't figure out what's causing it. No process hogs or background services, no wierd settings for L4D2 that I can find.

Seems ok in PR-VS, EU-VI, and L4D1-EU.

I do not run downloads in the background, only the game.

ANy ideas would be appreciated.

 

Thanks to Shake... I solved 70% of it. It was just stupid damn Firefox. I checked TaskManager adn it wasn't even hogging up that much memory or resources. It just seemed to disagree w/ the game.

TY again Shake

 

Get Chrome instead

 

Hahahahahaha, I feel the exact opposite. I love it when my fps shoots UP to 20 fps. It's usually lower than that.

 

Truth be told, I just can't get comfortable with Chrome.

Closing open browsers was a band-aid solution. I've narrowed it down to PR-COOP servers. Whenever I do something so simple as turn around or look behind me, it starts to lag. Then I hear a beatbox/loop of whatever current vocalization is playing then it freezes, have to CTRL+ALT+DEL out of it and restart the game/pc.

The video card has something to do w/ the problem; the issue itself is similar to when the computer attempts to reset the display driver and doesn't recover from a timeout.

Pissing me off.

 

Exactly... what's so incompatible about L4D2 & Firefox? I can play games that require more resources from the video card than L4D2... Like Grand Theft Auto IV. I play it daily and never have problems. Doesn't make much sense...

 

Their not incompatible i always leave firefox open while i play l4d no fps issues what so ever, although firefox is a massive memory hog when you've got a lot of multiple tabs open

 

Very true... I have at least 5 or 6 going all the time to conveniently multi-task MG stuff while gaming.

lol I saw Firefox's usage was at 600,000 when Flash was having issues w/ Youtube earlier. God!

Seriously, though, you have no issues while playing L4D2 & using Firefox?

I concluded the issue isn't the servers or the game. It's my stupid video card.

 

What gpu u use? i am still stucked with my old gtx260;40-50fps and no problem on medium settnigs;maybe u have video card problem?

 

NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT 512MB pos

 

your v.card was ok when u was playing l4d1,my 2,
maybe its time for u the save some cash and buy new gpu, that what u use is very old like Bill (me included )
We are quite behind others guys here...
gtx660 + good power supply (atleast 500w), gtx660 is very ok price now and u can enjoy new games to.

 

5 or 6? Dude i constantly have at least 20+ open lol in fact i just counted and right now i have 62 open lmao, though i dont think the page actually loads until you've clicked on them but still....mines at 541K right now......still no fps issues

But yeah multiple youtube pages sucks quite a lot of memory and i find facebook does too

 

I remember when i had an 8800GT and it was the shit lol....how fast things become outdated these days

 

word

i can't believe my pc is like 6 or 7 years old. wtf

i refuse to put more money into it and want to get as much mileage out of it as possible

 

Time goes 2 fast, we getinng old lol
my 2,i build last pc in end 2008, i think i am just to lazy to build something new ( i blame weed)

 

i spent so much money a million years ago building this pc i refuse to put another dollar into it

i blame old age

 

I'm still living the old age :okmeme: