Long time no see, hope you're doing well

You're always welcome back to the casualcord

Can you upload the output from Lawena's Log tab somewhere?

This is an issue where Lawena tries to tell TF2 to write its output files to your MovieDir, but TF2 doesn't allow writing outside the tf/ folder for security reasons

You can fix it by opening Lawena and going to File -> Change Movie Folder and setting it to your tf/ folder, or by changing the MovieDir directly in the settings.lwf file

It looks fine imo, even if I can tell it's sharpened a bit... but scaling, filtering and sharpness are customizable should you disagree

I haven't noticed any

Never seen this talked about before, but Valve made a piece of software originally for the Steam Deck called GameScope which among other things can be used to spoof your resolution

I experimented with this and got huge FPS boosts by upscaling from a lower resolution to my native resolution, even compared with just running the lower resolution normally

This works with any Steam game and it's as simple as adding launch options that looks something like this:

gamescope -w 1280 -h 720 -r 240 -W 1920 -H 1080 -e -f -F fsr --rt --force-grab-cursor --mangoapp -- %command%

...where in this example I run my game in 1280x720@240Hz, but upscale it to 1920x1080 using AMD's FidelityFX (NVIDIA users should instead use "-F nis" for NVIDIA Image Scaling)

For TF2 (or other Source games) specifically you can put all of your normal launch options after the "%command%" string like so:

gamescope -w 1280 -h 720 -r 240 -W 1920 -H 1080 -e -f -F fsr --rt --force-grab-cursor --mangoapp -- %command% -w 1280 -h 720 -freq 240 -fullscreen -vulkan -novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1 -precachefontchars -enablefakeip -console

Averaged ~1100 FPS and peaked at 1500 FPS on the Soldier training map, but figured I'd get more realistic numbers with mastercoms' benchmark:

Without GameScope (running natively at 1280x720)

• pass 1 : 5032 frames 26.039 seconds 193.25 fps ( 5.17 ms/f) 33.812 fps variability
  
• pass 2 : 5032 frames 26.376 seconds 190.78 fps ( 5.24 ms/f) 30.933 fps variability
  
• pass 3 : 5032 frames 27.050 seconds 186.02 fps ( 5.38 ms/f) 31.033 fps variability

With GameScope (upscaled from 1280x720 to 1920x1080)

• pass 1 : 5032 frames 19.338 seconds 260.21 fps ( 3.84 ms/f) 37.945 fps variability
  
• pass 2 : 5032 frames 19.113 seconds 263.28 fps ( 3.80 ms/f) 38.121 fps variability
  
• pass 3 : 5032 frames 19.541 seconds 257.51 fps ( 3.88 ms/f) 36.106 fps variability

Might do some proper benchmarking and plotting with mangohud tomorrow

This is not something TF2 can do unfortunately, but I should easily be able to hack together a workaround by having Lawena move the .tga files around when they appear on disk

I agree, I'll definitely add that to the todo list

I changed this and a few other defaults in vanilla Lawena, and will also do this in my rework

I'll look into this

Will fix/add

Made one here, but it's probably gonna be pretty barren until I finish my exams next week and then get a working prototype up and running

This looks easily doable. I'll experiment with it and try to add it to vanilla and rework

Hello all! I'm working on rewriting/porting Lawena from Java to C++ and was curious if there's anything you'd want fixed or added besides what I'm already planning:

• Fix the skybox previewer (only seems to be dysfunctional on linux?)
  
• Fix 'kill notices only' HUD
  
• Fix Lawena not always running properly without admin privs
  
• Add 64-bit TF2 support
  
• Add a previewer for custom particle effects
  
• Add an in-line renderer so you don't have to use VirtualDub or AviRecorder
  
• Add (but not enable?) CastingEssentials by default
  
• Better HUD checking (old Lawena thinks some custom assets (like CE) are HUDs)
  
• Improved graphics cfg (use mastercomfig ultra instead of Chris Max's maxquality as it's been unmaintained for 12 years)

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