is it normal

newguy5

newguy5

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to have your fps drop during a game randomly?

i was playing team fortress 2 with v/sync on and just randomly it dropped from 60 to like 45 and then back up. a lot of people and explosions were on the screen, ping may have went up. just don't know if that's common...
 
60 to 45 isn't that bad. Try to see what temps all your parts are running at and make sure they're not getting too hot. I wouldn't worry about it that much as long as it doesn't happen all the time and ruin gameplay.
 
it could be something like your anti virus updating or it could be that there was so much going on that your ping went a bit high or even that you have the graphics set a bit to high and when there is alot going on your graphics card is struggling a bit.
 
it seemed to happen when there was a lot going on. i wasn't watching the ping, but that very well could have been the issue. i have v-sync on too, which lowers the fps anyway...
 
Well I mean lets say youre playing counter-strike. Someone pops off a smoke grenade. It takes much more power on the video card to render the graphics if you are inside the smoke than if you are not. Your FPS will subsequently drop as a result. Notice what happens when you stand still and stare at a wall. Now start running. The FPS drops, doesn't it? When there is more movement/action it takes the graphics card more power to render the image, if there are a lot of people on screen it will require more than if someone is just sitting there...

You get what I'm saying?
 
Vertical synchronization CAN attribute to random frame drops though. To help alleviate such a situation, go into the video cards control manager, and enable triple buffering. This basically enables a third buffering unit, the physical or virtual pipeline charged with the rendering of frames, to act as backup in case the other two step on each others feet, which is the common reason for V-sync frame drop.
 
What drivers are you using, use the new 8.1. The 7.12's were having this problems in certain games..

unless it is due to graphicly intese sections in the game
 
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