Hello, so I've been fiddling around with threading commands and such, and my results have been pretty inconclusive as to what is the best. I've seen mat_queue_mode 1 is for dual cores, yet I get better FPS with 2, and that some of the r_threaded/r_queued commands are bad unless you have a quad core, but I've disabled and re-enabled all of them together or separately and I've yet to see a difference.

My CPU is a i5-i5200u, clocked @2.2ghz and seems to hit 2.6ghz with Turbo Boost. Has 2 Cores, and 4 Threads.

I've been having weird FPS issues for a good while now and I think I've narrowed it down to this stuff.
The best settings for dual cores seem to vary somewhat by source so I'm making this for help.

EDIT: What I've found gives the best boosts is outside of combat zones where I can actually switch them - once I get into combat it always, no matter what, config or not, drops to 45 FPS. Dunno why.

You can play on casual with DX81 - however as I already said in the post it actually gives me worse fps

Yes to everything above. I'm dumbfounded to what is going on.

I've already done all of these things. Doesn't work. Cowmanglia's makes it worse.

Cleaned fan a while back; didn't do much. CPU clocks out at 2.4-5 GHz, because of intel's turbo-bs-whatever-psuedo-overclocking thing.

I'm fairly certain there's more going on here, like how the best GFX config provides worse performance than default TF2.

Hello. So for about like 3 months, I've been intensively trying to improve my game's frame rate. By default, I get around 100+ in spawn rooms/low combat areas, and drops to 30-40 in action. As I've started to play in Competitive, this is unacceptable.

My craptop is running a i5 5200U Intel CPU, and Intel HD 5500 GPU if you can count that as even being a GPU.
In addition to trying every driver I can get my hands on and finding nothing helps, I've tried literally every goddamn graphics config I can get my hands on.

Cowmanglia's Stability + DX81 or any DX level - reduces frames to 25-35 everywhere
Felik's - Adds 10 frames
Rhapsody's - Same as Felik
Various Frankensteined configs - same as above
Chris's DX9 Frames - adds 15 frames

I do not understand what is going on. The config that theoretically should and would give me the most frames gives the least, while the completely obsolete config gives me the most. I've tried everything you can think of - heapsize, dxlevel, I've spent hours upon hours editting and trying to boil down these configs. I am losing my mind here. Tell me what I need to do so I can run my game at a respectable frame rate.

EDIT - in addition to this, I have a friend on a older Macbook with worse specs, that somehow manages 50-70 pretty much everywhere all the time. I'm baffled.

And no, I can't buy a new computer.