No huge FPS drop during firefights!

[Smeris]

So whenever i'm a fireman and there's a huuuuge fire like church or a complete appartment, the moment you start spraying you get a huge amount of FPS drops, it's definatly hard firefighting with 4 FPS.
this mostly happends on medium specs PC, which i think is due low VRAM.

Now you may have noticed that when you extinghuised a fire, you see these black burn spots. Now these are the problem.


What you want to do is the following:

Open the console (Which can be done by enabling it in garrysmod menu>Settings>keyboard>And i believe advanced settings)
Then choose a key that you find good. I'll take key K for example.
You then want to type in the following in the console:

bind K r_cleardecals

- bind is the command you use to bind a key to an action
- k is the key, this can be any letter or number(numpad is KP_HOME,KP_PGUP etc. )
- r_cleardecals is the command to remove the smoke.
- (for commands which space it's recommended to include an " " for and after a command.

And whenever you press that key in a huge fire, you should have a stable enough FPS to not die.

 

[John Daymon]

Hmm, na. Doesn't boost nor make it less laggy in a firefight, decals can cause lag, yes however I've tried this in fires but it's not really helping. Nice to ser you letting people know they can remove decals though!

 

[jjjackier]

Doesn't exactly change FPS or anything, but it should be used commonly when in raids so you don't get the "invisible glitch" or else you would have to rejoin.

 

[JJannui]

Have you tried disabling smoke in F1>Options?

Edit: Just do r_drawbatchdecals 0 to stop build up of burnt decals.