Subscribing to Many Addons Creates Lag

[Cynical Nerdist]

My Garry's Mod starts dropping FPS whenever I subscribe to a lot of addons. If I have maybe three pages of addons, the game is fine and it runs at 60, but when I start subscribing to more and more, the framerate gradually decreases. I've checked to make sure it isn't a single addon because it happens with any addon I subscribe to. Any fixes? Thanks.

[Tony McButt]

not downloading too much addons maybe?

[Cynical Nerdist]

Originally posted by Tony:

not downloading too much addons maybe?

This is Garry's Mod, that's not an option I'm sorry to say lol

[Tony McButt]

another one its lowering the graphics, or lowering the resolution

[Cynical Nerdist]

Originally posted by Tony:

another one its lowering the graphics, or lowering the resolution

It's not a graphics problem. It still lowers the framerate as I subscribe to more and more addons regardless of the graphics settings.

[Dr. Cat]

As a general rule (assuming the game is not badly made), if a game has bad FPS, it is often because of your GPU or CPU lacking enough power to keep it running smoothly.

Since decreasing graphics quality didn't help, you need more processing power.

To fix that, you can:
Check in task manager any applications that are using too much CPU, and shutting them down.
Disable some of those addons. Good christ.
Get a better processor.

Changing your mat_dxlevel could possibly help too, but not without severe graphical or stability consequences.

[Cynical Nerdist]

Originally posted by Dr. Cat:

As a general rule (assuming the game is not badly made), if a game has bad FPS, it is often because of your GPU or CPU lacking enough power to keep it running smoothly.

Since decreasing graphics quality didn't help, you need more processing power.

To fix that, you can:
Check in task manager any applications that are using too much CPU, and shutting them down.
Disable some of those addons. Good christ.
Get a better processor.

Changing your mat_dxlevel could possibly help too, but not without severe graphical or stability consequences.

Well as I said in the thread, the game runs perfectly fine at 60 fps with roughly three or so pages of addons. It only slows down when I subscribe to more and more addons. That couldn't possibly have anything to do with my GPU or CPU.

[Dexious Emera]

Don't subscribe while in-game. Problem solved.

Steam Workshop =/= Toybox

[Cynical Nerdist]

Originally posted by Dexious:

Don't subscribe while in-game. Problem solved.

Steam Workshop =/= Toybox

I don't subscribe to them while in game lol

[Dexious Emera]

Then your computer probably can't handle it for whatever reason

[Cynical Nerdist]

Originally posted by Dexious:

Then your computer probably can't handle it for whatever reason

Well that's a very odd thing, indeed. It's not as if the game actively physically renders the addons in game at all times, they're just sitting in the backlog waiting to be used. Have no idea why it would slow the game down.

[moving shadow]

The more that needs to be loaded into games, the laggier it'll be, even if you haven't spawned it yet. Unsubscribe from some addons and then your FPS should fix itself.

[Dr. Cat]

Originally posted by Cynical Nerdist:

Well as I said in the thread, the game runs perfectly fine at 60 fps with roughly three or so pages of addons. It only slows down when I subscribe to more and more addons. That couldn't possibly have anything to do with my GPU or CPU.

That's how it works. You can't expect to be able to have half of the workshop's addons downloaded without slowing down. You can handle three pages of addons because it's your computer's limit, any more than that and you're getting natural performance issues.

From what I know, addons that change graphics are the one that cause the biggest slowdowns, such as LifeMod, those 'ultra-realistic shaders' or lens flare and other thingamabobbers of the sort.

RAM is also something that can be looked into.

[Cynical Nerdist]

Originally posted by Dr. Cat:

Originally posted by Cynical Nerdist:

Well as I said in the thread, the game runs perfectly fine at 60 fps with roughly three or so pages of addons. It only slows down when I subscribe to more and more addons. That couldn't possibly have anything to do with my GPU or CPU.

That's how it works. You can't expect to be able to have half of the workshop's addons downloaded without slowing down. You can handle three pages of addons because it's your computer's limit, any more than that and you're getting natural performance issues.

From what I know, addons that change graphics are the one that cause the biggest slowdowns, such as LifeMod, those 'ultra-realistic shaders' or lens flare and other thingamabobbers of the sort.

RAM is also something that can be looked into.

Ah, okay i gotcha.

[aMiyafuji]

No kidding... it has to load more things with each add on, so it requires much more resources than it usually does. Not much can be done about it except for beefing your computer or slimming the downloads. You can cut some of the unused mods though in your addon folder. Start up the game and delete the folder once it's done loading, and everything not loaded in the game will be deleted. I do that every so often and it does help, as well as making a lot of room on my HD.

[Ghoul Blaster (Wu-Tang)]

Seriously? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA