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Mumble fps drops
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Hi,
So this thing has bugged me enough so I decided to ask the pro’s about it. Whenever I play a TF2 game with mumble its drops about 10-15fps from my average fps. Say if I play badlands 6v6 and on mid in an intensive fight I get 60 fps, with mumble on I get about 40-45. I’ve asked my friends who play with me and they said that they have no problem with it, which is strange. Do any of you get the same problem ? If you do how do you deal with it?
My specs: DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2300 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512 MB
2048 MB DDR2-800 (RAM)
Connecton: well i dont know is my internet good or bad. I only can say that my download speed is not more than 600kb/s (which I think is not good)
I use chris’ max frames, with good internet connection settings. I also configured mumble how it is explained in chris’ mumble configuration tutorial.
Any help would be really appreciated :)
Last edited by Niekas,
Quoted from dougiie
could be mumble overlay? have you tried with it off/on?
Yes, I have tried it, but no help :(
make sure you have positional audio turned off in mumble
Quoted from Vazzan
make sure you have positional audio turned off in mumble
Well this helped a bit but only by a few fps i think.
Last edited by Niekas,
I have the exact same problem and I’ve been told there’s no solution for this – it’s just the nature of program. You can only try lowering the priority of it while running (its default one is high, set it to normal).
Last edited by freshmeatt,
what operating system you got?
if it’s windows 7, windows 7 uses 2gb of ram usually, and you say you only got 2gb ram, so your comp is probably stuggling while running TF2. Same as if you have vista which only takes 1gb ram… can’t remember what XP takes. Adding more ram could solve problems and it’s relitively cheap these days… depending on how much you want obviously.
before upgrading anything though, try finding latest drivers for both your gfx card and directx, that could improve your fps slightly, but i’m guessing it’s your ram, cos 2gb is a pretty low amount these days.
hmm, couldn’t hurt to get sound drivers as well i suppose, as mumbles a sound based program.
I use win xp. When I play TF2 i only use less than 1gb of ram, so ram is not the problem. My drivers are updated as well.
The weird part of it is that my friend has a really bad pc and he plays at very low fps, but has no mumble problems..
Last edited by Niekas,
Quoted from Niekas
Hi,
So this thing has bugged me enough so I decided to ask the pro’s about it. Whenever I play a TF2 game with mumble its drops about 10-15fps from my average fps. Say if I play badlands 6v6 and on mid in an intensive fight I get 60 fps, with mumble on I get about 40-45. I’ve asked my friends who play with me and they said that they have no problem with it, which is strange. Do any of you get the same problem ? If you do how do you deal with it?
thats absolutely normal and there isnt a fix for dual core cpu’s
i had the same when i was on weak cache dual core
you can use ventrilo, no fps drops there
edit: this is just a thought, but what if u adjust mumble.exe affinity to use only 2nd core? core1 has less usage than core0 so if you also adjust priority to low and change affinity it might work
Last edited by AnimaL,
Quoted from AnimaL
[…]thats absolutely normal and there isnt a fix for dual core cpu’s
i had the same when i was on weak cache dual coreyou can use ventrilo, no fps drops there
edit: this is just a thought, but what if u adjust mumble.exe affinity to use only 2nd core? core1 has less usage than core0 so if you also adjust priority to low and change affinity it might work
Cant use ventrilo for obvious reasons. But I will try to change the affinity. I think youre on to something.
Quoted from Skyride
Animal, I love you buddy but you talk some utter shite sometimes. :D
u should see the utter shit i went through to get decent fps on my old c2d, but hey, i did it and i dont give a shite if ppl tell me im wrong :D
edit: i kinda simulated my idea
normal tf2 and mmbl: 139fps
mmbl on core1 and low priority: 142fps
no mmbl: 149fps
every test ran twice
on 60fps cpus u might see more improvment but clearly there is >10fps drop :]
Last edited by AnimaL,
Quoted from Skyride
Animal, I love you buddy but you talk some utter shite sometimes. :D
sed ‘s/sometimes/always/g’
Quoted from AnimaL
edit: i kinda simulated my idea
normal tf2 and mmbl: 139fps
mmbl on core1 and low priority: 142fps
no mmbl: 149fpsevery test ran twice
on 60fps cpus u might see more improvment but clearly there is >10fps drop :][/
Did you set it to work on core0 or core1 ?
Last edited by Niekas,
Quoted from Niekas
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Did you set it to work on core0 or core1 ?
if u have dual core, set mumble to use core1
triple: set to core2
quad: set hl.exe not to use core0
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