bort Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 sometimes people experience L4D freezing for a few seconds every minute or so. like the audio and the video freezes. if your on vent or skype if somebody is talking while it freezes it will sound like a broken record for them. and then a few seconds later it goes back to perfectly normal. this is not a lag issue or a low FPS issue. if this happens to you go into video settings and disable multi-core rendering. problem finally solved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prius Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Did i ever tell you that you are very good @ teaching people? But Yeah, I never had this problem. So i will look at this when i do have this problem. Thanks Bort again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bort Posted March 14, 2009 Author Share Posted March 14, 2009 thanx yeah some PCs dont have the problem. also i think if u dont have a multi-core CPU, u wont see it either theres another similar problem with CSS too if u have a multi-core CPU. (some PCs dont have this problem) if u turn on cl_showfps 1 u will see your FPS in the top of the screen and it will be green and red. like it will keep switchign from green FPS to red FPS several times per second. it make it choppy to play, but what u do to fix it is press CTRL+ALT+DEL and open Task Manager. find HL2.exe on the Processes tab right click and do Processor afinity only check one core. it doesnt matter which one. Now the cores wont fight over it, and the FPS will be all green not red and it wont be choppy any more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prius Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 31 CPU's Holy Crap. Super fast computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Love Lamp Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 *32 l2count! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingless Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Pretty much, you get unlucky if you have to work around this. I don't bitch much about it, because I used to support a major piece of accounting software, of which would crash during database rebuilds unless you set the affinity on certain computers. It's something that's usually fixed on accident :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetiredTacos Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 sometimes people experience L4D freezing for a few seconds every minute or so. like the audio and the video freezes. if your on vent or skype if somebody is talking while it freezes it will sound like a broken record for them. and then a few seconds later it goes back to perfectly normal. this is not a lag issue or a low FPS issue. if this happens to you go into video settings and disable multi-core rendering. problem finally solved I figured hits out a few nights ago, and NOW you post this. You are too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piscian Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Disabling V-sync worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAPD Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 Ohh yeah it happen to me last time Thanks bort* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetiredTacos Posted March 14, 2009 Share Posted March 14, 2009 theres another similar problem with CSS too if u have a multi-core CPU. (some PCs dont have this problem) if u turn on cl_showfps 1 u will see your FPS in the top of the screen and it will be green and red. like it will keep switchign from green FPS to red FPS several times per second. it make it choppy to play, but what u do to fix it is press CTRL+ALT+DEL and open Task Manager. find HL2.exe on the Processes tab right click and do Processor afinity only check one core. it doesnt matter which one. Now the cores wont fight over it, and the FPS will be all green not red and it wont be choppy any more To add to Bort's already helpful thread, this is an AMD dual core CPU issue, I had this on my old setup. There are also a few fixes for it. The two easiest fixes are. (other than setting affinity) The Microsoft Hotfix http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2AB5A48-8240-4934-BBD8-34FB8A0FCE3B The AMD Dual Core Optimizer http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bort Posted March 15, 2009 Author Share Posted March 15, 2009 ooooh that is good stuff i will try it thanks terry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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