OMG 15fps

I was playing a league game on powerhouse and to my horror as i was playing i saw my FPS crash to 15fps. There was nothing i could so I had to hide most of the map.
I would like to know why on earth did it drop so low because in previous games on this map my fps does not drop as much. But on in that game it did not sure if its the map or there server but i did not notice much choke or it my PC which usually gets around 100-250 fps so i don't see why it crashed so low on this map.
Can someone explain to me what the problem could be because i don't want this to happen again. Also added note em using onty fps enhancer so it usually high fps I get.

It happens to me sometimes as well I have yet to find the cause, could be steam Im going to try turning off the "ingame overlay" see if it happens again.
It doesnt happen often though.

Antivirus running in the back ground? Powerhouse is a terrible map for FPS anyway, well over all its just a terrible map. But when you get up where you need to be to camp the rocket the fps will drop pretty low. Did every one else in the map complain or just you?

No I don't think so anyone said anything was wrong but most of them have high specs compared to me so they would of not seen much of a difference.

You still have fpsdrops ingame or only on powerhouse now? If you still have fpsdrops you should check if your pc has a good temperature.

Yeah I would say overheating, or the game just glitched out on you for some reason. I have seen crazy low FPS for no apparent reason before, restart steam fixed it.

LOL he was probably downloading adult entertainment.

Paradox wrote:LOL he was probably downloading adult entertainment.

yea that's what i do when im in a league game to settle my nerves!!!!!!!

I just completely cleaned out my PC so it should not get too hot anymore also got a demo of the game so ill run it when it cool to see if the fps is the same.

I m sure for me it is nothing to do with heat as my PC has 6 fans which i switch to full when I game and even when I dont the CPU never goes above 46C also my GFX card is set to go to 100% fan speed at or above 65C.

I think the problem was heat. I opened up my laptop had it for two years and damn the fan was clogged up with dust and like a wall of it was blocking the back vent. So i got a to the tooth brush and cleaned the entire insides. I also did a updated the driver but that only made it run slower so found the original driver and installed it and well i loaded the powerhouse demo and yay 100-200 frames. I think 15fps due to heat as well i think the video driver became corrupted. Just wished I did all this stuff before the game.

Good to see the problem was solved by cleaning it. i mostly clean my pc 4 times a year o i don't have much problems thanks to a dusty pc

SND wrote: yea that's what i do when im in a league game to settle my nerves!!!!!!!

I've had a weird fps problem some times.... not common though
It's like I'm playing all OK with 300 fps @ LD and suddenly it drops to 30 for example, for about 4 secs more or less, and funny thing is that the same thing happends when watching the demo.
My pc is really good, so that shouldn't happen... it's something weird that I've got 3 times maybe (iirc).

sudden drops in your fps may be caused by the game losing focus... alt tabbing down to windows and then back should fix it. you could as well try disabling/turning off unnecesarry background processes before playing hl2dm. eg firewall, anti virus software, browser, video/audio player, chat clients etc etc. leave only those running that are essential for windows and hl2dm to work.