Default M16 has 10,000 polygons, while most gun nowaday have ~60,000. There are 18 weapon replacements, multiply them up and you will know the vast difference.
Shadow render base on model, game render model first and then shadow, they both animate as you play. You can think shadow effect is like PC render 60 pictures per second. Therefore the workload would increases exponentially as you use more detailed model.

Sorry friend if I'm bothering you 😅 Normally I only play with mods and launch parameters so as not to have performance problems, and I managed to find the parameters to play with the shadows up and enjoy the weapons, I have had problem after problem with some mods that made me crash, but when I discovered your mods I simply loved the mods and I don't know why I have that problem, my wish is to be able to play with your mods in ultra.

I'm more than happy to know you interested in my mod, however i would want to get this problem solved before i move on to my last ADS collection.

Do you notice how you can load a map faster if you've loaded it before? PC saves some informations in RAM, including the asset within my mod that causing trouble. This RAM usage serves L4D2 so as long as you exit L4D2, your PC shouldn't be laggy. To get around this, either give up on this mod, or learn about it and modify this mod yourself.

3. Personal opinion about gaming PC, your Intel Core i3 with 8 GB RAM is more than enough for highest graphic (in regular gameplay, without any mod), however i don't know your GPU but i think it's not so weak to make FPS falls below 30.
L4D2 released in 2009, now is 2024, do you realize how old it is? Intel Core i3 was once a standard for gaming PC, it's not for 2017 and later game but L4D2 is definately OK.
If you have Ryzen 5 5600G Processor and 16 GB RAM, you can even play Call of Duty Warzone, Ghostrunner, Dying Light, Naraka,... not best graphic but 60 FPS guaranteed.

Even further, i don't know to what extend this problem can affect your PC. Does it last as long as you exit L4D2? or as long as you keep my mod? or as long as you restart PC? Does it affect other game and software as well? Does shut down and start up take longer?

I always leave a link to original mod, have you tried them?

I hope i make myself clear when i say i can't help you. I have no rights nor abilities to help you. I have this discuss with you so we can find the cause of your problem, you can enjoy my mod while i have more knowledge. That's my passion and responsibility.

2. I know what i'm doing and what i upload to public. My mod arn't perfect, but i never upload anything that i've never tried. Still, like stated above, i might have no problem with my mod but that does NOT mean my mod can't cause trouble, and finding it is something i rely totally on you since only you have this problem so far.
That is why i have been telling you to test, not this mod, but your PC.

I see you're into a long talk. I'll let you know what i'm thinking:

1. Computers are science. Like how a doctor can't remotely perform a surgery, i can't have a gasp of what happened when you use my mod. Your computer could be running many background application like antivirus, screen wallpaper, cleaning service, or other service that affect the game directly like GPU setting, ReShade mod or screen filter. I also don't know how long have you been using your PC, how many application was installed, how you configure Windows and app setting.
Moreover, i don't know in what condition you tested my mod and came to your conclusion. Try my GEN-12, or original Animal33's GEN-12; try in official map or community map; try this mod alone or along with other mod; try this mod with graphic setting; try mod after reloading map, or after restarting game, or after restarting PC; try other mod (from me or others) while NOT using my GEN-12.

I was looking on YouTube for videos of realistic mods for Left 4 Dead 2 and what caught my attention was your collection of mods, having the gun in that aiming position was something I never thought would be achieved in the game, I would honestly say it's what best I've seen for the game, so I subscribed to all the weapons I could from your collection, but the bad thing was the FPS stuttering problem.

My friend who knows about computers told me that those computers are no longer suitable for gaming so I'm building a computer with the Ryzen 5 5600g processor and 16 RAM, I just hope I don't have that problem I'm having. Or tell me what requirements would I need to be able to play with these mods without problem?

Do all your weapon mods have the same function or just this collection?

Good. If you know that much, you can find solution on your own. Goodluck.

Well, the computers I play on have the following components. intel core i3-9100f. 8 ram. 64-bit operating system. x64 based processor. I've already removed all my mods, even with all settings set to low the issue continues 🤣. Is it possible that Steam is crashing me?

The computer is just as complex as a living creature. Different computer can have different problem. Since it's not your PC it's difficult to find the cause of it, but of course Steam is much likely to cause trouble because it has so many processes running at once.

Pirated game has all Steam related feature disabled, so it uses less resource. If you ask why people don't have your problem (FPS jerks and crash) it's because their PC specs is too high.

You can try to bring mod into L4D2 Steam version (in other mean, use mod without subscribing), and also try all kind of mod as well (old and new mod, mod with special feature or effect, high quality texture and model, replacing many asset like survivor, prop model, colour correction, skybox, blood texture, ...)

Am I the only one having this problem or is there someone else?
I don't have a PC, I only play in a computer cabin, cyber or internet whatever it is called, I installed the game 2 times on different machines and since I downloaded these mods, even canceling all my mods, the game crashes, this happens in all machines on which I installed the game because I bought it on Steam and the strange thing is that the machines have the pirated version. They don't have that problem. I tested both versions with the recommended settings even with all settings on low. I don't know what the problem is but the game has these FPS jerks since I downloaded these mods, if anyone can help me and tell me what I should do to solve this problem I would greatly appreciate it.

or will it be some bug?

This doesn't make sense, can mods have viruses that affect the account?

Make sense now, though sadly not enough people know about this. Hopefully someone write a guide or something.

Well of course, the fact is game keep your subscribing mod up-to-date in real time, both at menu and in game. To do that it would consume RAM, making it easier to exceeds game's limit and crashes.

Conflicting mod is Not a problem because game only loads the prioritized file (within prioritized .vpk aka the mod), all other file replacing same asset will not be read.

Set High Paged Pool Memory also increase the risk of crashing as this tells the game to use more RAM.

Did you know if you take out your subscribe mods, and place it into your addon folder, it will LESS likely to cause crashes? The l4d2 will load those mods directly from your addon, which also help keeping it stable while playing on a custom maps.

Of course there a limit too, but better than walking on eggshells all the times. Be sure to unsubscribed on the mods you're using to avoid conflicting/double loading .

The best solution would be to stop using this mod, since the model is very detailed.
If it still crashes after restarting game, try again after you restart PC as well.
If it still doesn't help, chance is your graphic card driver is damaged for overworking.

If you have knowledge about modding, you may discover the cause of it.

Friend, I have a problem, since I downloaded your mods for some reason the game is giving me jerks or small crashes, I don't know if there is a solution for that, or maybe these mods are very heavy and need more power but if there is a solution I will tell you. I would pray to be able to fix it since since I downloaded them, even uninstalling them, it still gives me this problem.

How do you managed to made it reloading all those shells during the reload animation? While the other two Gen12 mods had to wait till the animation end, before it start reloading from 0 to 10.

The other two not only it's wacky, you have to wait another 2 seconds till it fully finish. While again, this one load in an instants like a real Mag loader.

wow nice and thanks for the compression

This shotgun is absolutely beautiful, in function and animation. Great work.

@Mercyless_IX

It's not for getting good or make the game easier, it just make the game have different experience, when I use rain's ADS weapon mod I remember why I'm not make an ADS script for guns, I mean yeah it is really easy if just changing crouch spread, so that's why I would love to learn more about plugins so I could extend script the way I could imagine, so it just experimental

Sorry, i must decline. I have my own reason to make this mod.
May you find someone who can fulfill your request.

@Artillery Rain. My good buddy, can is ask for a last favor, in name of all John Wick Franchise's fans, to make an ADS for this one please.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=891867468
John Wick's CA-415.
For yes or no
Greetings from Chile, sorry if i ask so much.

@Spect Delta adding scripts to the guns is useless in my opinion, make the game easier, the deal is to be good using the normal scripts.
The only script i rarely use, are the ones for the magazine size in case of revolvers, shotguns, etc. But i don´t use them cause crash online gaming.
So No Scripts.

To have more accuracy use get down.

Sorry for my bad english. Have a nice morning, afternoon and night guys.

I know nothing about plugin and script. I'm not interested.

yea that's why I ask you, maybe you little bit know about maybe plugins or something, because I saw many modders use plugins to extend their script to another level

That is not possible for regular script.

@Altillery Rain
yea maybe I could find some of the script, I'm just trying to make gun are precise when player are walk only, so maybe it could be great

@Spec Delta
I think such script is already in workshop, or you can try other's script and figure thing out.
However if you want i can make a script that make every weapon deadly precise. For fun maybe.

nice，ADS gen12

MEEEEN OMG u made it, thanks you my brother really thanks u. Awesome. i feel like a like kid right know.
as would say Thanos, I´m gonna enjoy it... Very very much.

hey rain, did you know how to make plugins, like I want to make ADS script that use minimum speed spread, so it could works nice with some of your ADS mods