Memory Leak [Not Solved] (Extreme FPS drop, gets worse)

**Abysmal** · 06-12-2007, 06:54 AM

Blanel Wrote:Upgraded to the 7.5 catalyst drivers. No improvement, but made other games crap so I will revert back probably any day now to 7.4.

Could it be that some files are missing and that my cpu is hitting the roof because the game engine is trying to render something that doesn't exist? In the log it mentions several files that are missing. Is that normal?

I can run Doom III at low-medium settings.

I have a similar problem. I dont think its missing files, becuase if teh game was missing files, it'd probably not even run. or, it'd whine about the file. (at least thats what i think it would do). My situation is that the game runs just fine just about 90% of the time, but then when I get to certain parts in the game, it gets real laggy for some odd reason. I think it has to do with those

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As soon as I got to that first one, the game got laggy as hell... So I changed my resolution down to 800 x 600. That seemed to help a lot.... But, I was just playing it just now and it got laggy again. I'm at the part with

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So Thomas, you think this severe slowdown is because of altering settings.cfg? I think its unlikely seeing as I'm not the only one with this problem. Btw, I was just curious... When is the patch for Overture coming out????

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Hmmm, interesting. Apparently, quitting and then reloading the game gets rid of the lag. *scratches head* I guess on first load of the game for the night it lags like hell, but then when you reload its fine again. strange. [/edit]