Yeah, that probably would have been a better idea now that I'm looking at it now. It's always under 50% and CPU usage is around 80-90 woops ._. I just thought it was the gpu that was the problem since it's not at the normal core clock unlike the rest of the games I play.

The cpu I'm currently using is 2.8 Ghz with 2 cores 2 threads and my laptop cpu has a stock of 2.6 and a turbo of up to 3.2 ghz.

I used to play on a laptop that had a two core, 4 thread i5 but now that I upgraded from integrated graphics I'm on my pc and I'm forced to play on a worser cpu, but I don't think that's the entire reason why I'm getting less fps. I sort of test if playing without a config would stable the mhz in valve matchmaking but it still was underneath stock.

I own a EVGA GT 730 2GB GDDR5 graphics card and I have it overclocked to 1137 mhz on the core clock from the stock 901 and the overclock works just fine in other games, yet tf2 is the only game where it underclocks itself to normally 732 mhz when in a game but it usually fluctates from anywhere between 732 to very rarely 1137. It will be at a constant 732 and then suddenly change to the 800s or 900s, which results in framedrops. The only reason I can think why it doesn't run at the overclock is because tf2 isn't a very demanding game, but I have no idea why it tends to fluctuate in mhz. I already use a config but even then my fps can drop to the 20s with the low clock speeds, so I think if I could have it play at a constant 1137 mhz I would have no issues. I've already tried removing the overclock but even then it will go underneath the stock 901 so I'm not sure what else to do. I'm using MSI Afterburner to monitor the graphics card and fps and it's also the program I used to overclock in the first place. Also as a side note the gpu is at 1137 while just staring at the main menu screen, but when I go into a game then it drops to 732 mhz and goes up and down from there.

[edit] Found a better solution that it just being my cpu, since that really didn't have anything to do with my graphics card underclock itself. What I did was change power management mode to perfer maximum performance in nvidia control panel in 3d settings. Now it runs at a constant 901 MHZ (stock w/out overclock), which is still better than it fluctuating and going under stock clock speeds.

It does, I benchmarked it and got about a 10 fps boost, not alot for me atleast.

I've just got into the competitive scene and I just needed some clarification. If something works in sv_pure 2 then does that mean it's allowed? For example I use transparent viewmodels, no explosion smoke script and custom animations/animation overhauls which all work in sv_pure 2 serves and idk if I can actually use some of these so if someone could help a noob out that would be great :3

Just to be sure, when you install the remove bullet hole dust and put it into the scripts folder do you need to change the .txt file to a .cfg file?

I actually know how to do benchmarks now and the results were practically the same across all 3 dx levels. Did 9 tests each and 3 for each dx level and dx 95 had the highest fps average, though in the end all 3 ended up with 51 fps average.

I want to know which one of the 3 gives the best fps. I'm not sure what my specs are or if they matter at all and idk how to conduct benchmarks either. Right now I'm using dx 90 and not 81 since I want to keep my sheens and skins.

The vpk one, why?

EDIT: Fixed.

The script makes my BLU Demoman first person arm models to go red. Is there a way to fix this?

EDIT: Fixed it, downloaded a newer version.

Ah, thank you. I had no idea that it was a script that would be interfering.

Ever since the Meet Your Match update, teleporters were changed to only cost 50 metal, but I have this bug where in the Construction PDA UI the cost for building an entrance/exit still displays 125 metal. The problem is that this means that I would need atleast 125 metal to build a teleporter that only subtracts 50 metal from the amount I have. I know that not everyone has this problem as I've seen people in videos that have teleporters that cost what they should so if anyone has any solutions to fix this then that would be great. I have tried deleting my tf folder and then verifying game cache but the bug still stayed, and switching to the stock hud did nothing either.

Here's a video by Nystical showing the bug in-game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZWh2D-cjQY

btw, has anyone have the same problem where the first person arms of blu demoman are showing up as red team? it seemed to have come from the config because before I had it installed I didn't have this problem.

Apologies. I DID fix it by trying to redownload tf2 again and it was fine, but when I reinstalled my config and custom stuff it reappeared.