Ok I posted about 2 weeks ago complaining that my frame rate was suffering. I thought that the problem was that I had a large pile of func_physboxes and that all my brushes collided, causing the compiler to need to chop up all the brushes. This, I thought, was my problem and I tried using areaportals and such to fix the lag. Well, none of it worked, but at least I cleaned up my map a bit by making sure the brushes don't intersect any more After more investigation I found that the major culprits are my point_spotlights. Originally I had about 10 point_spotlight entities in my map, and my fps was about 10 (keeping in mind I have a 1.67 Ghz, 512 mb ram, geforce 5700) when I was looking at the area with the highest concentration of the lights. This includes being on a completely other side of the map with two huge canyon walls in between the point_spotlights and I. Shortening the lights didnt' do any good, and neither did removing half the lights. Normally (without the spotlights) I managed 30 to 50 fps. Upon more experimentation I found that with only 1 point_spotlight in the map, I got 20 fps when in or looking at the light and 30 to 40 when not looking at it. Thus, I figured the point_spotlights are my problem and came here to see if anyone knew what I could do that would allow me to use the spotlights without having a huge hit for fps. They are rather essential to the map (since the map is based at night). The spotlights are not all in the same room, so if there was some way to "contain" their effect on fps so that the frame rate would only take a hit when you were inthat room, it would be acceptable... I'm thinking there must be a way to do it because in de_prodigy there are the hanging lights in ct spawn, but I dont' suffer any real fps drop there. thanks!