Sudden FPS drop when players are on screen

#1

LufgtKatya

0 Frags – +

As the title says, I am suffering terrible FPS drops on TF2 when players are on screen. As I understand, TF2 is a CPU intensive game, and I have an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, a more than capable CPU. Even with all settings on low (maxframes configs and the like), my framerate falls to around 40-50 when players are on screen. Inversely, it maxxes out at my cap (144) when i'm staring at a wall or the ground, or in offline mode. I can't for the life of me figure out why this is - only a couple weeks ago I was getting 144 frames absolutely consistently, as I have been for the past three years. Any help appreciated, no clue what has caused this. Task manager says everything is normal - is it bottlenecking?

#2

Rockz

2 Frags – +

check if you gpu is being utilized, it might be in some chill mode (low clocks), because tf2 doesnt demand much

#3

AimIsADick

-10 Frags – +

What mods do you use?
Have you checked your frame pacing?
Have you tried any anti screen tear technology? (Vsync, FreeSync, Gsync.)

LufgtKatya Even with all settings on low (maxframes configs and the like)

I recommend using mastercomfig; maxframes is old and doesn't account for modern TF2 updates.

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[*] What mods do you use?
[*] Have you checked your frame pacing?
[*] Have you tried any anti screen tear technology? (Vsync, FreeSync, Gsync.)
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[quote=LufgtKatya] Even with all settings on low (maxframes configs and the like)[/quote]

I recommend using [url=https://mastercomfig.com/]mastercomfig[/url]; maxframes is old and doesn't account for modern TF2 updates.