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I have a general understanding of how things work with Valve games and your ability to run scripts to increase performance.

I'm wondering if anyone (not guessing or just "well I heard from this dude") has any solid information or links that I can read concerning why my frame rates drop so low.

On a server created by me with no one else I average 60-70 FPS.

On the OP servers when populated (out of combat) I get around 20-30.

On the OP server when in combat I get 5-10 FPS.

When I reinstall TF2 and run it at default settings with DX 9 and at medium graphics I get the same frame rates as above.

When I drop to DX 8.1 and run a script that literally makes it look like we're playing Super Mario Bros. I still get the same FPS.

Basically at default settings I get the same frames as I do if I turn them all the way down.

That doesn't make any sense to me at all.

My specs:

Pen 4 3.2 GHz Single
2G of ram dual-chan
30mb HDD (just to hold WindowsXP)
300G HDD holding TF2 and everything else
Nvidia 7300 GT

I don't have the best computer, but it's not that bad.

Obviously I need to upgrade to a new one at some point, but still.

Any information/help would be really appreciated. Thanks!