For an extended period of time, I have been having issues with Team Fortress 2. Mainly that whenever this appears,
No such variable "$basetexture" for material "particle/flamethrowerfire/flamethrowerfire102" (Note that it's not only that material, that is just an example)
my frame rate tanks. It is a consistent issue. No amount of driver updates, reinstall, or verifications seems to fix the issue.
Has anyone else run into this issue?
The cause of the frame rate issue is directly related to missing textures. When the engine can't find a texture, it's going to hammer the hard drive once every rendered frame to try and load the texture, even if it doesn't exist. So if your game is running at 60 frames a second, the engine is going out 60 times a second to the hard drive to try and load the texture.
If it's just a few unknown textures that you aren't able to get installed, you can make placeholder VMTs with the missing texture name in the correct path that load some generic texture of your choosing. You can just make one generic VMT and copypasta/rename it to whatever the missing texture is.
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