Bad Performance: Why? Created 17 years ago2007-02-04 21:32:57 UTC by RotatorSplint

I was messing in Half-Life 2 today, and I've noticed a significant drop in my computers performance. At one point, a grenade blew up and sent a few physics props flying, which should have been more than easy to cope with, but my frames dropped to 30. An other time, I was looking down the tunnel at the very end of the Ravenholm maps and the FPS dropped to 24 for about 5 seconds, then rose back to ~90. I used to be able to minamize and restore HL2 in 6 seconds, but that's up to 14 seconds (I know that's asking for a lot, but double the time is a little disconcerting).

I've made sure no other background programs are running, save for Opera, and looked in the Task Manager to see that no high-cost programs are running - I found nothing.

Can there be any explanation for this sudden loss in performance? I'm quite certain that the pressure being put on my system is far less than what would cause what I'm describing...

Use the +showbudget command in the console and go through the areas/events that made it slow down. If it happens again, you might know if it has to do with the game or the rest of your PC.

When was the last time you had normal performance? It's rumored FPS tends to shift up and mostly down after steam updates.

My +showbudget is messed up. I could be getting 299 FPS on the net_graph counter (and seeing glass-smooth performance), and the +showbudget counter will show 23, not to mention maxing out every bar that it can register (it's always done that since I got my new computer - I have no idea why).

The last time I had normal performance was only a day or two ago. Rebooting hasn't seemed to fix it. I suppose, as a last resort, I'll try a system restore, but that's a very last resort.

DEFRAGMENT UR PC (LULZ)
DEFRAGMENT UR GCF FILEZ (USE GCFSCAPE TOOLS>DEFRAGMENT)
VERIFY UR GAME CACHES (STEAM GAME PROPERTIES>LOCAL FILES>VERIFY)
CLOSE STEAM
DELETE CLIENTREGISTRY.BLOB (BLOB IS TEH BEST EXTENSION EVAR)
RESTART STEAM

CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

BLOB IS TEH BEST EXTENSION EVAR

I'd have to agree with you there.

Awesome!! Even with XSI running in the background, Half-Life 2 runs better than before. Thanks you all

how'd you fix it?

Your methods, including DELETING CLIENTREGISTRY.BLOB!

I have yet to defrag my system, though.

there isn't an issue that deleting clientregistry.blob doesn't fix!

Hot damn, Penguinboy just gave useful advice that actually worked... in capslock no less!

indeed!
capslock advice ftw!

k i deleted the blob but havnt check source yet. what exactly does it do

I'm still noticing some occasional drops in performance :

I'll be sure to defrag the system tonight.