Calling people to test these launch options to see if they cause TF2 to crash or not:

-tools : hacky way to increase graphical quality
-filmgrain : film grain effect

I will probably never recommend these in actual play.

Not entirely sure what has been causing this, but I believe you can work around this issue for now with mat_mipmaptextures 0. I'll try to find out the cause in a few days, sorry about this.

Should be in tf/custom/stabbyHUD, not in tf/custom/stabbyHUD/cfg

Preloading file goes in the mastercoms folder like how it is.

I meant "magically" sarcastically. Most of the time it claims that it is going to just boost CPU performance, but the Windows CPU scheduler is smarter than some third party program. Of course, there are some inefficiencies with it, but especially with the complexities of hyperthreading, I don't think any program will just work.

That being said, I'd like to see comparisons to see how much FPS you're gaining.

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Could you please share your specs please? I could recommend something based on how bad your CPU and GPU are.

Thank you for the benchmarks, sage! Did you get a chance to play with these launch options and see if they made the game "feel" different in actual play?

Thanks!! <3

Map backgrounds are no longer needed on PC as the engine intelligently preloads assets itself.

setting to 0 will increase fps

thx so much!!!!<3

no i dont have a donate link right now but if you could just donate it to a charity, preferably one for cute animals or helping the unfortunate that would mean a llot to me <3

Hi all,

would appreciate it if people with strong GPUs could do a benchmark with r_occlusion 0/1 and r_fastzreject 0/1 individually and together.

r_renderoverlayfragment 1

Try out these network settings:

cl_cmdrate 66
cl_updaterate 66
cl_interp_ratio 2
cl_smooth 1
cl_smoothtime 0.15
net_splitrate 2
rate 167580
net_maxcleartime 0.5
net_maxpacketdrop 100
net_splitpacket_maxrate 167581

Could you please tell me your specs, and also share tf\log.txt from doing con_logfile log.txt cvarlist.

Most of these programs that magically handle your CPU better (like core unparker, and process lasso) are made by people who aren't informed as much as the OS and firmware devs who actually know what they're doing.