[Must Read] Low FPS Fix!

[Friedturkey]

can you also make visual how to fix for McAfee?
thanks

[DoReMi]

Originally Posted by Hippy Pacifist

FIX: get a better computer.. cost ~$900

More like 400$.


Anyway, will see if this makes a diff, thanks.

[Cerbeius]

Didn't help. I still get random FPS-drops (from 40-60 to 9-18, ugh... a pain if you want to snipe)

[DJKat]

Not bad, a few extra frames

This has helped me on my desktop PC as well. From 45-60 FPS I get 60 stable FPS, even in 32 man Dustbowl.

Thanks Chris

I haven't done much thorough testing but for me it seemed to make things actually worse.
Before I had an occasional FPS drop, figured this might fix it, and now I have them pretty regularly.

:|

The stats folder contains .bin files only, so it's enough to exclude them:

C:\Program Files\Steam\appcache\stats\*.bin

(call me paranoid)

[ChrisCTX]

Originally Posted by Addict_h

The stats folder contains .bin files only, so it's enough to exclude them:

C:\Program Files\Steam\appcache\stats\*.bin

(call me paranoid)

Yes it does, and doing the above results in the same.

I however decided not to write the instructions using the * function simply because a lot of Anti-virus don't have it.

^_^

[DoReMi]

Didn't help me at all but thanks- my i5 should arrive in 3 days anyway.

[PPV3]

Chris, just out of curiosity, how did you find this it? Did you scan a log of what your AV was scanning? Or did it just come in some genius dream?

[Voight]

Originally Posted by MooChonke

I haven't done much thorough testing but for me it seemed to make things actually worse.
Before I had an occasional FPS drop, figured this might fix it, and now I have them pretty regularly.

:|

Doing this can't possibly affect your FPS for the WORSE. You must have ♥♥♥♥ed up something else. If you're really certain, why not undo this fix and see if your issue goes away?

It Won't.

[ChrisCTX]

Originally Posted by PPV3

Chris, just out of curiosity, how did you find this it? Did you scan a log of what your AV was scanning? Or did it just come in some genius dream?

I started getting a few FPS less than usual so I kept checking my CPU usage and making a few graphs.

Checked processes and noticed my anti-virus had a few spikes.

Started by excluding the entire STEAM folder first and it worked, so then I decided to try each individual subfolder, some minutes later I had it ^_^

[spacebug]

I would give you all my rep for a month if it were possible.

[T3chno]

Originally Posted by Devil_Spawn

how has nobody picked up on the fact that their antivirus program is using all their resources? i call this a fix for the less computer-ly aware people. My old computer used to lose performance in every update, and i had never installed antivirus on my system.

Comodo leaves a light footprint on my computer. I've already optimized my computer as much as I can. I'm pretty sure people know anti-virus programs can hog resources. I don't think many correspond it with TF2 FPS drop-offs though.


And if you knew about this, why didn't you make the topic?

[supamark23]

Originally Posted by Cerbeius

Didn't help. I still get random FPS-drops (from 40-60 to 9-18, ugh... a pain if you want to snipe)

do you have a Realtek NIC?
if so, update the driver, added like 10+ fps for me.

here's the thread:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...hlight=realtek