Halflife 2 Episode One ridiculously slow

Halflife 2 Episode One is running really slow. Halflife 2 ran great at native resolution (1440 by 900) and full settings.

In Episode One I went as low as 1024 by 800 and still it was very very slow.

Help!!!!

 

Its a more demanding game, one big diffrence is Episode 1 uses HDR while the first one diffrent. You can find a tweak guide for it and turn off HDR probably and try to use Bloom instead.

 

No matter, my comp can still play episode 1 on full settings, so a 7700 should definetly be able to aswell. That is, unless they programmed it that much towards ATI, hehehe...

 

I know I can run it on full settings, but why am I facing this problem??

 

it'd have been better to post your average fps instead. anyway, run a video test in half-life 2:lost coast, it's as demanding as episode one and it should give your average fps. however i believe the HDR is the reason, so try to turn it off to see if it makes huge difference

 

You dont have something like 8x AA on in windows?

 

well.......my average fps is 9
lost coast ran the same way
games like C&C 3 run on full settings
HL2 runs perfectly on my freinds gig which has a 7600 256MB

 

Get the idea yet?

 

There should be absolutely no reason, that your computer can not run Half Life 2 Episode 1. I run it at 1280X800, HDR, High Graphics. And my FPS never bump beloe 65. IMO, reinstall Half Life 2:E1, or maybe it is because you are running XP. I really dont know to tell you the truth. I know Vista made about a 15 FPS difference with my machine.

 

Try Shadows off?

 

Guys, it's not his settings, he has a 7700! geez

it should run smooth with max everything.


try updating your video card drivers maybe?

 

hah. you aren't going to have a weird hl2 problem because you are running xp instead of vista.

xp is much better at the moment. you will have like 10-15% better performance over vista.

that aside- im almost positive that there is a setting that is dragging your fps down that is on by default that needs to be off.

go into the advanced video options and remove the 16x anisotropic filtering and 8x anti aliasing that is obviously enabled.

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go into hl2. look at all the advanced settings you have on. make the ones in hl2:ep1 match them. make sure the resolutions are the same. especially aniso filter and anti aliasing.

if that doesn't work- go into the nvidia driver program thing. in the lower right hand corner of your screen. make sure the settings are all set to default and if you see something that says like "force 16x aniso filter and 8x high quality anti aliasing" uncheck that option.

 

did i say it was because of vista? NO, i said that it just boosted my preformance, it may do the same for him.

 

vista made hl2 faster for you?

so... you started with xp, tested hl2, moved to vista, and then it was faster?

maybe you didn't have updated / proper drivers for the xp setup.

 

Sounds like its just some weird prob with the source engine. Checked on steams support page for ppl with similar problems?

 

My drivers are the exact same thing as they were with XP. Yes it made every steam game better. Yes they were tested.

 

thats really strange. xp consistently posts faster framerates than vista on the same hardware. im sort of confused as to why vista is faster on your particular setup?

 

HL2 is one of the games that support x64

http://extended64.com/blogs/blake/archive/2006/05/12/2668.aspx

so if he has x64 vista vs x86 xp that could be why its faster.

I run vista ultimate x64 so it would probably run faster for me on vista also.

 

Vista's video card driver problems are largely a thing of the past (from my personal experience, and other people's I've read recently). I've been using Vista for a few weeks now, and while I'm currently on a desktop x1800xt (driver situation might be different for Nvidia, I don't know), my performance is pretty much identical to XP. For example, with the latest Catalyst 7.6 drivers, in the FEAR benchmark (max settings, 4xAA @1680x1050) I average 48 FPS, just like in XP. My performance in Oblivion actually slightly improved over XP; nothing noticeable w/o FRAPS on, but I noticed consistently higher framerates in heavy forest areas (~25 compared to the ~22-23 I got in XP). My FPS in the HL2: Lost Coast benchmark also improved very slightly (~71 vs. ~69 in XP) - which is still within the margin of error/randomness, but just generally speaking, Vista's video card drivers are as good as XP's.

 

I guess it depends on your card, card maker, processor, etc for vista to help. CS:S it went from 1280X800 High everything AA full, and AS Full ~ 25-30 with XP but NOW with vista its about 50-60 minimum.

 

I've noticed that FSAA has severe effects on Nvidia cards in the source engine with HDR. Just turn off FSAA completely and set your resolution to the native 1440x900?

That should make your FPS jump to about 50-70FPS or more.

If you want to check your framerate in game, click on options, keyboard, advanced, and enable the console. Then in game press the ~ key and type

CL_showfps 1

 

Thanks everybody problem figured out.
Re-installed Episode 1 and it run amazing at 1440 into 900 and maxed out settings.

 

so far out of 5 games im about 10fps lower in vista than I have with xp...

but I think thats because x64 is behind x86 in the drivers department. but x86 has the same forceware version out right now....