Massive FPS drops when tabbing back into GMod

[flugs]

Hey, recently I've been experiencing a really bad issue in which whenever I tab out of my game at any time there's a high chance that when I tab back in my FPS drops massively and makes the game unplayable. Sometimes it passes but most of the time I have to disconnect and this has cost me lots of good RP experiences and such.

What I've tried:
- Reinstalling the game
- Verify integrity of game files
- Reinstalling CSS
- Moving GMod to SSD
- Checks on GPU and CPU (seem fine)

It may be my GTX 750 that's just simply failing, which I wouldn't be surprised by but only recently this issue has come up. If anyone has any advice or has experienced this, please say below as I want to get this fixed asap.

Thanks.

 

[Sneaky]

I suffer from this too, don't think this is solvable tbh, the game's old. Tabbing back and forth a few times does fix it for me.

 

[flugs]

Oh I'll try that next time it happens, thanks. Upgrading GPU can never hurt to be fair.. especially when you have a 750 xd

 

[Sneaky]

I agree, but your GPU probably isnt at fault here. gmod runs almost fully on the CPU. you could litteraly play with onboard graphics and get similar FPS as a 2080TI.

 

[flugs]

@Sneaky Oh I had no clue. I have a quad core i5 which isn't shit but isn't great, so I doubt my specs have anything to do with it.

 

[John Daymon]

This isn't really solveable unless you get a better CPU or make the game fullscreen instead of fullscreen windowed.

Another fix you can try is not using chrome at the same time, spazzes the game out a bit.

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