Shitty Graphics

[Silver Dot]

Okay, this problem has been bugging me for years.

My video card is 9800 GT, I can set all my details to high on Gmod without lagging, same with CS:S.

Team Fortress 2 is a fucking different story. I set my details to medium without anti-aliasing and it still lags. When my comp was overclocked on XP, I could set some to high and A-A to 2x and not lag. Now that I'm on Windows 7, I can't overclock, I've been begging my dad for a new card but he says it's my computers problem.

Is there a way to fix this? I CAN'T do the following:

Overclock.

Buy a new card.

[Balmung]

Don't play whilst downloading porn

Just set the graphics to the lowest, not medum or anything.

It's better to have gameplay than graphics.

[Silver Dot]

Don't play whilst downloading porn

Just set the graphics to the lowest, not medum or anything.

It's better to have gameplay than graphics.

This isn't lag lag it's FPS lag.

I understand but, this is the case: I can't play TF2 with these graphics, they fucking irritate me.

It's the main reason I stopped playing TF2 for a while, I just hate the actual game because of the graphics. Is there ANY way to solve this?

Edited June 24, 2010 by Silver Dot

[Balmung]

Meh. I've always used high graphics, but I switched to low graphics once and it's barely any different. TF2 has never intended to be a game looking for detail.

the only other way you ccan solve this is either get a new graphics card or pretty much kill alot of processes before playing TF2

[Clavus]

Reinstall TF2, reinstall your graphics card drivers (use Driver Sweeper to completely clean them up first), and it might fix the problem. It's clearly a driver corruption. That card should run TF2 at high with no problem.

[Daniek]

what Clavus said , Nvidia launched a new series of Drivers ( 256 ) series try it for me , I've noticed some minor difference ingame with it .

[Silver Dot]

Reinstall TF2, reinstall your graphics card drivers (use Driver Sweeper to completely clean them up first), and it might fix the problem. It's clearly a driver corruption. That card should run TF2 at high with no problem.

I'll do that, Clavus.

Also, I discovered an overclocking program called EVGA precision, I wonder, is this possible?

[MiF]

I DID got same problem 2 months ago, but i fixed it by reinstalling drivers, I do have 9800 GT too but no overclocking. I did it like clavus said

[Njittie]

I don't have any problems with TF2 on high settings with my 9800 GT.

[Lemon!]

Changing the graphics to low doesn't help at all. That's what I have noticed, only resolution can do that.

See if you can download Phongless stuff from fpsbanana, they give you more fps.

[Clavus]

Changing the graphics to low doesn't help at all. That's what I have noticed, only resolution can do that.

See if you can download Phongless stuff from fpsbanana, they give you more fps.

"changing graphics to low doesn't help at all" and "download phongless stuff" contradicts each other. You're not supposed to change any settings in TF2 in this case; you're supposed to get your drivers in order.

[Ni pah]

Give us the rest of your configuration.

That's strange, i use to play source games with the highest setting with a 8800gt and without framerates troubles

[Silver Dot]

I'm waiting for my dad/brother to actually stop being assholes and help me with this shit, I don't know anything about computers.

[Chikennugget1]

I don't know if it can help you that much but I got FPS problems on all my source 2.0 games (tf2-ep2-portal) and I tried different things without success (system restore, cleaning drivers and stuff like that), and at the end I discovered that my antivirus was causing those lags as I haven't put the "game mode" activated (well it's not activated I lag, when it is it's fine).Maybe check your antivirus, disable it to see.

It's possible that's not your card's fault.

Edited July 7, 2010 by Chikennugget1

[TheGreenGrasshopper]

anti-virus <-- this can cause so many problems and is only effective against holding out hackers and virusses

update driver

reinstall driver

change directx level

[BouweV]

anti-virus <-- this can cause so many problems and is only effective against holding out hackers and virusses

Just get a better anti-virus then, mine has 'gaming-mode'. When a fullscreen application is running it wont execute any tasks.(Not even scheduled scans)

Edited July 8, 2010 by BouweV

[Corby]

I was gonna say, that card should easily be able to run those games without problems.

[TheGreenGrasshopper]

hey silver I found this on the tf2 forums, http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1093560 it's the low fps fix

[Silver Dot]

I have spyware doctor, so this might not work. I hate putting all the shit off but I'll try and do it tomorrow.

E: I tried it, FPS was boosted by 10 and I was able to move anti-aliasing up to 4X, thanks Green.

E: E: I just realized I have a 9400 GT .

Edited July 8, 2010 by Silver Dot