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[Sgt. Rho]

Alt+Tab -> Ctrl+Alt+Supr -> Memory Usage

[Razven]

Supr?

[Alias]

Delete.

[Razven]

Is it the thing right of the CPU percentage thing?

[Ion Cannon!]

Physical Memory (K)

It tells you the total memory and the memory still available - not being used.

[Razven]

Well, I checked in game, I was using around 60% or so, so I doubt it's the cause of the problem.

[ΓΛPTΘΓ]

I played quite a lot of TF2 in HK, it seems that server can cause lag. Some server are hosted from 'network bar' and can have horrible connection.

In HK, bandwidth is not problem, but ping is.

BTW, open console > Type 'net_graph 3' and tell me what fps are you getting and the loss and choke.

[Razven]

FPS drops most during battles, when the screen has a lot of player objects, sentries, teleporters, dispensers..and players.

[ΓΛPTΘΓ]

Lower the graphics detail. This is your computer's problem, 8600 Mobile is not a gaming card, turn down the detail, that card will give you decent FPS.

[Razven]

If it's not a gaming graphics card, I fail to see what it is used for.

And Re: Playing TF2 in Hong Kong, I have yet to see any "network bars", which are commonly more known as internet cafes have TF2, let alone host it. The few servers which you might see HK players are the Taiwan and Korean ones.

[Crazykenny]

To be perfectly honest, anything mobile shouldn't be used to game with, ofcourse with the exception of purpose build laptops like Alienwares. The Geforce 8600 chip itself isn't really all that powerful, it is and always will be the budget card from Nvidia's 8 series. I do think the desktop version is slightly more powerful, but I could be mistaken there.

Videocards aren't necessarily for gaming as most people might believe. They're used for watching movies (HD and what not), Vista loves good videocards and ofcourse video-editing itself (Although you got specialized cards for this, Quaddro and Fire-GL cards). If you really want gaming card you should look at the following:

- x800
- x800GT
- x800GTX

The 800 series are usually meant for games, look at the 8800GTX or the 9800GTX, really gamer cards. All this chips are also available in mobile version with some cut in, in power.

So if I where you, I would be looking for a bit more beef, GPU wise.

[BeefJeRKy]

@Razven: There is such a thing as media graphics cards which do the job far better than integrated graphics for handling video (mostly HD) as well as special effects for your OS and usually use little power. The 8600 is such a card as is the Mobilty Radeon 3470 in my laptop.

[Razven]

Guys I just solved it.

Wasn't a software problem or a hardware problem. It was a dust problem.

Yesterday, I opened up my drive case thingamaboble thing after I switched off my computer, took an old paintbrush and basically ran it through the entire surface with a vacuum cleaner next to it. Now I'm getting a steady 50+ fps while playing TF2.

[Numbers]

That's great Tf2 is the best time waster I have. 5 hours or so give or take. Bam! Gone.

[Rich19]

Nice one. It's TF2uesday today as well.

[Razven]

And now that I have a proper FPS, I can actually backstab more than one of you at a time! :3

[BeefJeRKy]

Dust is the enemy of all PCs. I'm assuming the rest of your games run even smoother now?

[Razven]

Yes, very much so. If memory serves well, I haven't cleaned the dust off the case for half a year and it's already crippled my computer.