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I tryed that and everything else when using STEAM, didn't help

2.8 isn't the cause of my horrible FPS, it's STEAM!!! I uninstalled Steam and put my Half-Life files back where there were originally. I played 2.8 on a NO-STEAM server and my FPS was just fine. STEAM is huge piece of crap IMO.

Does anyone know why my FPS took such a nose dive since I installed 2.8??? I used to get 40-60 FPS all the time and now I get 5-20 FPS. I have never had any problems with any other release of FA. I realize that I don't have the best PC in the world but this is absolutely rediculous. I have a 700 Celeron, 196 Ram, and a Voodoo 3 video card. I run in open GL and have never had a problem with low FPS in FA, CS, or DOD. I tryed switching to D3D and it's even worse. I tryed changing from 800x600 to 600X480 and it's still aweful. I can't even play. When I get into a CQ fight with somebody, my frames are so BAD that it's unplayable. I spent about 5 hours last night trying to get the game to work with STEAM. I finally get it working and I can't even play cuz of the crappy FPS. When I load STEAM, it takes for ever for it to come up. It takes for ever to launch a game. I even downloaded the full version of 2.8 and reinstalled Half-Life. This STEAM idea seems like a big mistake to me. I don't understand how I can receive such a severe FPS loss just by going from 2.7 to 2.8. I'm not that thrilled about 2.8 anyway. Why did they take the Steil nades away? Did we really need another machine gun? The night vision goggles are useless. The SMG's seem pretty useless now. The AK-47 is going to be the new whore weapon. Why couldn't they have just fixed some bugs and pretty much left it the same? I'm pretty discusted right now and I think FA is going to lose a lot of players. Not everyone has a new PC with a 2ghz processor and 512 RAM. I considering removing FA from my PC and going back to DOD.

Yes, I'm back. I kinda got hooked on Day of Defeat for a while. It was something new to me and I found it to be a very interesting and fun. But I started to get bored with it and decided to come back to FA and the Armory. I'm sure you all missed my clays and nades, right? lol Anyway, it's good to be back

Thanks to all that responded.

I didn't have this map so I downloaded it. When I try to join the server while this map is playing, I get the error message "WARNING: couldn't open valve/push.wad. What does this mean??? How do I fix??? Thanks.

Thank you Gator

I have some cool screenshots of 3 players stacked on top of each other in the blue base of Force. How do I upload them to the picture gallery? I don't see anything on that page about uploaded images. Thanks.

I was playing Golan earlier today and was on the blue team. Almost eveytime I left our spawn and started up the hill, I got sniped. I kept trying to find this sniper. I went up the hill to left, up the hill to the right, up the hill to the middle, no sniper. I finally looked up on the cliffs to the right and I see a red dude running around up there. It's bad enough to get sniped when you just leave your spawn area but when the sniper is way up on the cliffs where you don't expect anybody to be, it sucks. I am so discusted with all of the exploiting of maps I can't see straight. Something needs to be done and soon.

I see some TA members telling players that there are NO exploits aloud already. As much as I would like that to happen, nothing has gone into effect yet. Per Gator.

FINALLY!!!, thank you Gator. This map exploiting is getting WAY out of control. It used to be one or 2 people every few maps would exploit. It seems like lately there are many players exploiting on EVERY map. I wish that players that know how to exploit maps would NOT show others how to do it. We all know who the king of exploits is. Not only does he exploit but he shows his whole team how to do it. I don't understand why players can't just play the map the way it was intended to be played. Maybe I just don't get it or something. It ruins the game for everybody else that wants to play fair. "Climb onto hills, cliffs, buildings, or any high-elevated areas where the opponent does not have a reasonable opportunity to counterattack" The only problem I see with this wording is that it can be interpreted in different ways. It's to vague. I think it will only lead to arguments and problems. I think the only way it's going to work is to not allow and cliff or roof exploits of any kind. That way it's cut and dry. Just my opinion.

Exploiting cliffs and roofs is getting kind of out of hand. It's not to bad if one or two players do it during a game but when SOMEBODY shows the whole team how to exploit, it kind of ruins the game for everybody. I was there at the Willow exploiting frenzy also Klif. Please, PLEASE don't show everyone how to exploit these maps. Thanks :evil:

Thank you Gator

Yes you are, but they must give extra points for time played, because as of today, you have played:3days 22hours 57minutes in the past 14 daysThat equates to:95 hours (5700 minutes) of game play :mrgreen: With a daily average of 407 minutes (6.7 hours a day) Gator, up until today, [AA]-Sgt.Zy had more time online playing than I did and I didn't see his name in the top 100. You make it sound like my time playing is the only reason that I am ranked #2 on this server and #24 in the world. I may not be the best FA player but I do have have SOME skills. Why do I get the feeling that people think that anyone that played as much as I do would be ranked very high just because of time online?Phsychostats and these World Ranking stats are based in large part on capping and destroying objects. I try to complete objectives on each map because I am a team player. I am not just worried about how many kills I get. That's why I have high rankings.

Actually I do have a life AlaraphonAMD and I resent that comment. I have been on disability since December from a slip and fall accident I had in the Wal-Mart restroom. I suffered a serious neck and wrist injury. I am bored to death not being able to work and not being able to do many physical activities. I spend much of my time playing FA or watching TV as of late because I can't do much else. I am slowly recovering and hope to be back to work soon. Thanks for the concern.