Source games - FPS drops and slowdowns after minimizing

mattyy1hp commented 11 years ago

I noticed that all Source games have a big slowdowns if they are minimalized and maximized.

I noticed this in following games:

Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 Beta
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Counter-Strike: Source

Steps to reproduce: 1/ Start any game described above 2/ Connect to any server 3/ Minimize a game (ALT+Tab, WIN+D etc.) 4/ Maximize a game 5/ You may now have very unstable and lower FPS

Solution is disconnect from a server and re-connect or restart a game.

For example:

FPS before minimizing = 60
FPS after minimizing = <30

I tried:

windowed mode = I can't reproduce it, it's more likely fullscreen-only
disable AMD Tear-Free = did not help
disable AMD Catalyst A.I. = did not help
disable forced "wait for vertical refresh" in AMD Catalyst = did not help
re-install AMD drivers = did not help

System specs: Drivers: AMD 13.3 Beta2 Catalyst (it's same on the stable 13.1) Desktop environment: Cinnamon 1.6.7

Processor Information: Vendor: AuthenticAMD Speed: 1400 Mhz 4 logical processors 4 physical processors HyperThreading: Unsupported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Unsupported SSE4a: Supported SSE41: Unsupported SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information: Network Speed:

Operating System Version: Linux Mint 13 Maya (64 bit) Kernel Name: Linux Kernel Version: 3.8.0-030800-generic X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Server Release: 11103000 X Window Manager: Mutter (Muffin) Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-03-08

Video Card: Driver: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 6520G

Driver Version:  4.2.12172 Compatibility Profile Context 12.10.17
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID:  0x1002
DeviceID:  0x9647
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1366 x 768
Desktop Resolution: 1366 x 768
Primary Display Size: 13.54" x 7.60"  (15.51" diag)
                                        34.4cm x 19.3cm  (39.4cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card: Audio device: ATI R6xx HDMI

Memory: RAM: 3418 Mb

Miscellaneous: UI Language: English LANG: en_US.UTF-8 Microphone: Not set Total Hard Disk Space Available: 581060 Mb Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 178983 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports: Thu Mar 21 18:41:44 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130321194134_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-26a2ae16-d08d-4455-b8e4-0440f2130321 ''

bdeen-valve commented 11 years ago

@mattyy1hp - it looks like AMD release 13.3 Beta 3 and in that release they fixed this: [371733]: Team Fortress 2 - Change settings without restarting would reduce FPS down to the 20s/30s

Not 100% sure it'll fix this problem, but it sounds like it might. Can you upgrade to 13.3 Beta 3 and see if this fixes your problem?

mattyy1hp commented 11 years ago

@bdeen-valve I already have the 13.3 Beta2 drivers installed. It's same like on 13.1.

bdeen-valve commented 11 years ago

@mattyy1hp - AMDs fix is in 13.3 Beta 3.

mattyy1hp commented 11 years ago

@bdeen-valve Oh, sorry. I will try it.

mattyy1hp commented 11 years ago

It's still reproducible on 13.3 beta3.

plomoman commented 11 years ago

I noticed this too, but the 13.3 Beta 3 seems to have fixed this. I can freely tab out and in the game like I was used to :)

jorgenpt commented 11 years ago

@mattyy1hp, can you please post your system information again from Steam after your update?

mattyy1hp commented 11 years ago

@jorgenpt Sure:

Processor Information: Vendor: AuthenticAMD Speed: 1400 Mhz 4 logical processors 4 physical processors HyperThreading: Unsupported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Unsupported SSE4a: Supported SSE41: Unsupported SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information: Network Speed:

Operating System Version: Linux Mint 13 Maya (64 bit) Kernel Name: Linux Kernel Version: 3.8.0-030800-generic X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Server Release: 11103000 X Window Manager: Mutter (Muffin) Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-03-25

Video Card: Driver: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 6520G

Driver Version:  4.2.12173 Compatibility Profile Context 12.10.17
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID:  0x1002
DeviceID:  0x9647
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1366 x 768
Desktop Resolution: 1366 x 768
Primary Display Size: 13.54" x 7.60"  (15.51" diag)
                                        34.4cm x 19.3cm  (39.4cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card: Audio device: ATI R6xx HDMI

Memory: RAM: 3418 Mb

Miscellaneous: UI Language: English LANG: en_US.UTF-8 Microphone: Not set Total Hard Disk Space Available: 581060 Mb Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 126631 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

wubli commented 8 years ago

It happens to me with nvidia too

ambaca commented 8 years ago

Well, don't play fullscreen or minimize game screen.

👍

kisak-valve commented 7 years ago

Closing as general video driver / DE quality from 2013 is no longer relevant. If anyone is still experiencing this issue on an up to date system, please open a new issue report.

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Source games - FPS drops and slowdowns after minimizing #238

Well, don't play fullscreen or minimize game screen.