All those links give me 404's.
As for the black bars:
Navigate to resource/ui/ControlPointIcon.res and change the "visible" and "enabled" values for CPBorderLeft, Right, Top, Bottom, BottomShadow, and RightShadow to "0" (or just delete them entirely).

And, thanks Sevin! :>

Shit, I already closed the window. I'll run another 10-minute test and get the data from that. Sorry :(

edit: main test http://puu.sh/6Fm7L.png (was playing on a foggy map so i was probably using a bit more cpu than usual)
Drivers page: http://puu.sh/6Fmbr.png

When I downgraded to Win7 I did a partial downgrade (meaning I kept all my files on there). I moved back to Win8 thinking it would solve these issues (I didn't know that driver conflicts would be a problem at this time). When I learned about driver conflicts, I wiped my HDD and then re-installed Win8. Sorry, it's a really complex system.

Ah, sorry about missing the latencymon question. There's been a lot of stuff on my slate concerning this and I must have missed it. I ran latencymon when I fixed my DPC latency and everything checked out (although I didn't have it on when I was gaming, I'll do that + post results).

After I run latencymon I'll work on the device manager stuff.
EDIT: Here's latencymon: http://puu.sh/6FjND.png
This was during tf2 surfing

Also: my power settings have been on both high performance and balanced. I haven't noticed a difference between the two.

I'm also working to compile a timeline and a list of stuff I've already done to give myself a little head room.

@smaka: I could possibly be interested in one of those drives. What shipping costs are we looking at?

This computer is barely a year old.

I've already reinstalled and refreshed win8 a couple times now

I guess I can see where you're coming from--I'm not too sure though considering I've done extensive scans on every component on my comp, That would only leave software, but I've already blanked my HDD twice now, so I guess that has to leave the hardware. I've already replaced the mobo and the PSU so that leaves the CPU, graphics card, HDD, RAM, and probably something else I'm missing.

I don't trust myself messing with this comp though. I live really close to Lange-perhaps miracles could be made? :v

edit: oh hi smaka

No, I don't.

I religiously studied the Approved RAM list for my motherboard back when I was shopping. It should be on there.

Ugh, I really don't want to tear this thing apart. Every time I mess with the hardware its performance just gets worse. I guess I'll look into it though

Yeah, they actually started once I switched. I switched to Windows 7 to fix a minor bug I thought was caused by Win 8 (TURNS OUT I HAD TO FUCKING VERIFY MY GAME CACHE) and ever since it's just been on a downward slope.

Default driver tested. Nothing.

Mini-Update now pushed to the github! Includes a 4:3 scoreboard and a new Stopwatch HUD:

http://puu.sh/6AMG7.png

BIG OKIE

justice served

holy shit

thanks europe

How many viewers did LAN get?

because this is amazing

As for the screenies that were posted a few posts back, I don't really know why those would be off-center; you have a 16:10 res and everything is on c-values

http://puu.sh/6x0GA.png

I have 286 friends that play tf2 (rofl) so that averages out to about 2500 hours per player

No problem.