Hey ,I just installed gmod
And directly saw that I have way less fps then other games (like tf2)
arround 30-40 when they're none construction ,between 10-20 when I start poping items.
I'm on a Asus R500V (geforce 630M) (I have arround 70-80 constant fps on tf2)
There's no multicore-rendering in Garry's Mod so you'll have worse frames pretty much no matter what.
{off topic} I'm confused, i have multi-core rendering enabled, but i'm assuming it doesn't work on Gmod even with it enabled, correct?
I do these things to speed up Source games on lower end hardware:
mat_motion_blur_enabled 0 (disables motion blur)
mat_bumpmap 0 (disables normal maps)
mat_specular 0 (disables envmaps)
In Gmod, you also have Lua to contend with; Which can drop frame rates if you have a bunch of mods with Lua code running. Some examples would be like Life Support, ACF and the Stargate mods. Disabling stuff like this will also give you a frame rate boost.
Another thing that absolutely destroys game performance is if the engine is trying to load some texture, model, sound, etc. that doesn't exist. This can be hard to diagnose because often the engine won't tell you about what it's doing in the background. You need a debugger or a tool like Sysinternals Disk Monitor to see if hl2.exe is doing things it shouldn't be doing.
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