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bleomycin

Member

Registered: 2012-10-23

Posts: 20

TF2 lag spikes make it unplayable on good nvidia hardware?

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to get TF2 performing well on pretty reasonable hardware. FPS run around 150 in game (at 1080P) but every 5-10 seconds they drop down to 20 or so in a very large lag spike. The lag spikes lessen as time in game increases but never go away. Any help is greatly appreciated, I would love to stop dual-booting!

Hardware:

Nvidia GTX 560 Ti
i7 920
12GB ram

Software:

gnome shell 3.10.2.1 (running classic)
nvidia driver: 331.20 (all stock settings)
nvidia-libgl
lib32-nvidia-libgl
lib32-nvidia-utils
pulseaudio
3.12.1-1-ARCH (x86_64)

bleomycin

Member

Registered: 2012-10-23

Posts: 20

Re: TF2 lag spikes make it unplayable on good nvidia hardware?

Does TF2 just run great for everyone else out of the box? I've had this problem spanning multiple high end machines (one with gtx 780's and ssd).

silverhammermba

Wiki Maintainer

Registered: 2011-04-14

Posts: 156

Re: TF2 lag spikes make it unplayable on good nvidia hardware?

TF2 runs great for me other than loading slowly and using excessive memory. As long as I don't try to multitask, it is playable.