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LodanZark

In past i did played with 60fps on games jet set radio HD and Street Fighter X Tekken, but now for a unknown reason i got lower FPS arround 25, but in game if i go to steam overlay by pressing Shift+Tab the FPS became 60 again... the problem i cant see the game with all steam overlay stuff cover the screen...
Anyone did got the same problem?

I recorded a video to show the issue: clicky the same problem happens with SFxT

UPDATE: Fixed, I just removed the files x360ce.ini and xinput1_3.dll from directory that were created by x360 ce software to emulate xbox 360 controller and game became normal again.

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BananaNation

Lag has nothing to do with fps. Framerate drops can sometimes be caused by steam overlay, but it's rare.

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LodanZark

I should call "FPS Drop" or "Slowdowns" instead "Lag", in my case the Framerate its fixed by opened the steam overlay which its quiet opposite of the situation you describe.

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RageheadInferno

I have never heard of steam creating those problems. Check your discrete graphics control panel settings. You may be using too much AA or you have vsync enabled. Try running a clean install of your graphics drivers.

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RageheadInferno

If you have an nvidia card, make sure you disable stereoscopic 3d. It halves your framerate in almost every game even when you are not using it. I would also use MSI afterburner to make sure the game is using all of your gpus if you have more than one.

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BananaNation

Doesn't mean that it's not the cause though and disabling the overlay to try doesn't take too much time.

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LodanZark

i added a video to show the issue

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Brotbaum

Do you have Vsync enabled? Such drops can happen when it is enabled.

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LodanZark

I tried with Vsync enabled and Disabled and the problem stills unfixed... i have no idea why this is happened

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Brotbaum

Have you changed any other settings in the games or updated your graphics driver recently?

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LodanZark

Lastest Nvidia Drivers 310.70, i checked also the data integrity of both games.

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LodanZark

I added a video to show the problem: Clicky

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BananaNation

This video is private.

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LodanZark

i changed the settings now, i made it public

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LodanZark

bump

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Jonex

What's the size of your HDD and how much free space is there?

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LodanZark

50GB

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Anyhoo

Are there any steam skins that make steam lag less the games and the PC ?

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Jonex

I highly doubt that Steam is the cause, so I'm almost certain that Steam skins would have no effect.

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Anyhoo

I'm 99% that steam is the cause

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Jonex

99% is basically certain, I've never been 99% certain about anything related to programs. I'm sorry to say you got beaten by 1%.

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Anyhoo

Yeah , well i have a different problem , my pc is old and any is sacadated or laggy , and steam makes it worse since it consumes as much as my firefox full of add-ons

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Mozi111

You can try turning off the Steam overlay?

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ztjuh

Why don't you open a bug report on steam forums?

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LodanZark

I already sent a ticket to steam support and i didnt get any answear, plus why i cant post here? there is tons of steam users (captain obvious) which might help me find out the solution, and since im stay more time in this forum than steam support forum.

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LodanZark

UPDATE: Fixed, I just removed the files x360ce.ini and xinput1_3.dll from directory that were created by x360 ce software to emulate xbox 360 controller and game became normal again.

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trunks10k

go to task manager and set steam to run at below normal priority
that should stop steam from always updating while ur using heavy loads. i.e when your about to release a load over your monitor XD

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LodanZark

That wasnt the problem, i just changed the gamepad and the information that was recorded on "x360ce.ini" from xbox 360 gamepad emulator did have wrong values which cause a overload to the game... that was the issue. anyway i did fixed the problem and now im using "Pinnacle Game Profiler" software instead "x360 ce" since it's much more flexible even if isnt free..

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Closed 12 years ago by LodanZark.