Odd FPS Problem...

[Goomba]

Okay, this isn't an average FPS problem. Soldat was working flawlessly until somehow everytime I play now, every 5 seconds I get like 8 fps. I turned off smooth polygons, but that still didn't make a difference. It's not my drivers cuzz it's been working fine before. Any suggestions?

[Sethamundo]

Try turning antialiasing off.  Try windowed mode (it increases FPS by a long shot most of the time).  Play around with different settings.  If all else fails, uninstall, delete entire game folder, empty recycle bin, freshly install Soldat.

[Cube]

and redownload it. might be a virus (although unrealistic)

[echo_trail]

And turn off MSN, SKYPE, mIRC or whatever bandwith consuming piece of crap you have running meanwhile.. works for me.

[truup]

Im having the same problem too (though not anymore ;o), it helped when I turned Avast!(antivirus) program off. So yeah, try to turn un-necessary programs off.

[Clawbug]

Hmm.. There might be many causes to that one. I do not think that the problem is in Soldat, so messing with the settings won't help much.

Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to get into taskmanager, now swicth to "performance"(or something like that)-tab, and see the processors usage, if there is some big peaks every now and then (like for every 5s as yoy stated), then switch back to "Processes"-tab. Then sort the list by CPU and try to figure out which process does the peak to the CPU usage, after you find it, terminate it. Now go to play Soldat.

Would be nice to know what kind of hardware you have in your computer.

E: Oh, where did I get that 6-8s from?

[M.rSnow]

Damnit! You posted before me Clawbug. Had the same tip as you. And you can tweak the computor whit tweaker programs. But i dont have any links.

[Raithah]

Quick tidbit before you go willy-nilly disabling system resources, 'System Idle Process', which often takes up 70-80 percent of your CPU time, is not to be shut down. Y'got it ?

Another thing that has always got me with the framerates : for some odd reason or another, Soldat likes to render a bunch of 'somethings' that take up enormous amounts of CPU power. Now I have no idea what these 'somethings' are, but I'm willing to bet that your processor speed is to blame and not your video card. Could you post your sys specs ?

[Clawbug]

Quick tidbit before you go willy-nilly disabling system resources, 'System Idle Process', which often takes up 70-80 percent of your CPU time, is not to be shut down. Y'got it ?

I'd like to see above statement in more clear format, any chance of it?

Rather than close some random processes, close those which actually take the CPU recourses during the lag "spike" (every 5 seconds).