thank you i was crashing on map switches I think this solved it

"i win those on 32-bit"

its so over macos bros

why live

Since everyone is sad lawena is gone I'll post this as I think it will help some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH4scK3uB_s

HLAE still doesn't work right now though.

I hope some PREC functions like map names in demo names can be added to demosupport

game doesn't start with -dxlevel 80 / -dxlevel 81 and forces itself to dxlevel 9
RIP
never liked how the rockets feel at dx9

No new crates?

if anyone knows how to make dx8 work after this update pls lmk

Any workaround to make dxlevel 81 work?

AVIRecorder is a good alternative to lawena for those needing something. If you want the limited HUD etc. just copy those files from lawena's folder into your custom.

To my knowledge the only thing lawena does that is hard to do otherwise is replacing skyboxes, but someone can probably write a simple utility for that anyway.

anyone elses hud is broken after update? cant see the class loadout menu screen thing anymore lol, shows up empty

dxlevel 81 works fine but I guess it looks like the launch option is messed up, you can change dxlevel by navigating to HKCU\Software\Valve\Source\tf\Settings in regedit and simply setting DXLevel_V1 to your preference.

Would

finally

does anyone know if lod tweaks are working

@ https://www.teamfortress.tv/35876/get-quake-like-textures-high-lod-bias-again/?page=4#91

TF2 update #2 for late 4/18/24 (4/19/24 UTC):

Via HLDS:

Rumor has it:

- Size is ~128 bytes

lenovo laptop 14alc05
ryzen 5700u
16gb, 7.7gb shared, 512mb dedicated to i-gpu
driving 1440p external monitor via hdmi.

did a bunch of testing after joining skial harvest @ 22 players and with "low" avgs of 60-70 and shooting up to 170 when not looking at a lot of players (same as test #1). Seemingly can't alt-tab with -vulkan being used, not sure if igpu drivers are being weird or what.

Will say, very pleased with how this is turning out. I've slowly seen this laptop over the past... 2? 3? years become more and more viable for the random stuff i want to do occasionally. Went back to harvest, 15-20 players on the server lowest i saw with dx81, mastercom very low was like 80-90 on a mid.

I ran nerd shit for dx81, 90, and 95 progressively working up to the final 2 states i benched. like 2 dozen other tests if you want to check it out here: https://pastebin.com/b3d0bqfH

Used shounics benchmarks: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xbuiBnZb301EXFyYuQP17KS21AWM_v5o/view

///dx95 (no config, no launch options, all low adv options 2560x1440p)
sbmrk----11795 frames 252.900 seconds 46.64 fps (21.44 ms/f) 2.911 fps variability
sbmrk24--5032 frames 79.008 seconds 63.69 fps (15.70 ms/f) 5.114 fps variability

///dx81 mastercoms very low latest headsfeet (+outlines,killfeed,msgs,killstreaks)
sbmrk----11795 frames 169.904 seconds 69.42 fps (14.40 ms/f) 4.937 fps variability
sbmrk24--5032 frames 45.972 seconds 109.46 fps ( 9.14 ms/f) 7.284 fps variability

///dx90 -vulkan mastercoms very low latest headsfeet (+outlines,killfeed,msgs,killstreaks)
sbmrk----11795 frames 201.871 seconds 58.43 fps (17.11 ms/f) 3.812 fps variability
sbmrk24--5032 frames 56.345 seconds 89.31 fps (11.20 ms/f) 6.224 fps variability

I was getting black screen on launch until I put the Vulkan command first in line in launch options.

Server hosters:
Parts of Sourcemod are not ready for 64 bits.
Do not try to run your server using the 64 bits binary, it is unnecessary.

Would it not improve performance technically speaking? (assuming all the plugins work as intended)

yeah it could a bit (for server hostings) but the problem is that atm most of the sourcemod stuff on 64-bit doesn't work so there is no sense in playing on them

i got dx81 to work by just putting mat_dxlevel 81 in my config. Gotta run it before any graphics settings cus it will reset them otherwise. The regedit method might be better for some other reasons but i cba.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/864957840389046314/1231022337592135812/image.png?ex=663571e4&is=6622fce4&hm=2078779d4e6a56cd9ba293372fd37d5471f571f6f8ed0b8878653040a7363c7d&;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rr0Nmj7A6Y
fix pls
i use b4nny config
and these are my launch options
-r_emulate_gl -nostartupsound -freq 144 -no_texture_stream -particles 1 -nosteamcontroller -precachefontchars -noquicktime -noforcemaccel -noforcemparms -noforcemspd -console -novid -noipx -nojoy -nohltv -w 1600 -h 1024

From earlier in this thread:

Something to try.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1022310401725177937/1231025096177750026/image.png?ex=66357476&is=6622ff76&hm=6e68409daf2ae0813359ba374a8fbb08e4ef60e258d9e437d760afab214d96a1&;

changing it or removing it causes this

unintended benefit of this update seems to be the ability to run 2k hz polling without dropping frames/stuttering. But still no go on 4k for me.

apparently there were changes to the cvar list, some of which i found pretty interesting. link to total changes available here

• fps_max default from 300 -> 400
  
• m_rawinput now defaults to 1
  
• a lot of commands were added for the direction and angle of sounds, including a command to override the sound device

The game server can only run the simulation on a single CPU core (skill issue).
In the current cases where resources are adequately provisioned (one CPU core per game server minus one overall for the OS/other tasks, and the CPU clock is fast enough to keep up with the simulation), the performance change won't really matter much.
It maybe gives a few more opportunities to run the server on slower CPUs, or if you wanna put too many gameservers up (don't do that, that's degenerate).

i'm running 4k, have no issues whatsoever