Anybody good with optimizing source maps?

**jngrow** · May 7th, 2009 03:54 AM

I got myself a map here, but it chugs like a bitch, and also it won't render if i use the default bsp compiler (crashes in middle of rendering). It's not the best organized map ever or anything, but I still don't see why it would be chuggin this much. Yeah, it probably has to do with visportaling. If someone is interested in helping directly, PM me, but if you have any suggestions here, please post.

P.S.: chugs same amount regardless of vidya settings, on the PC you see in my specs and on a dual 2.5 8800GT 4GB RAM comp, if that means anything.

**Sel** · May 7th, 2009 12:06 PM

tf2maps.net

As far as I know, here no one has really attempted source other than me, and I haven't got all that far past a spawn room, let alone to the optimizing stage of mapping. You'll probably get more help there.

**jngrow** · May 8th, 2009 02:10 AM

Thanks

**Aerowyn** · May 8th, 2009 04:46 PM

The best thing I can tell you is to use the nodraw texture on every surface that WON'T be seen by a player in-map. Depending on the size of your map, it will take a huge load off of rendering the textures and so on.

**jngrow** · May 9th, 2009 12:28 AM

Yeah, I did that, sadly made a very small difference.

. The map has the same bizzare chug-stutter in all maximum or all minimum settings...

**Aerowyn** · May 9th, 2009 01:54 PM

Are you using custom materials/sounds/models/etc?

Because I know that when I made a CSS map, I had to use PakRat to get all that stuff in there and keep the size small.