pyro update (GONE SPOOPY)

Try these launch options

-novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -noff -nohltv -softparticlesdefaultoff -reuse -primarysound -snoforceformat -swapcores -high -r_emulate_gl

Any reason you use windowed mode?

Delete everything in your tf/cfg folder, delete all configs you may have in tf/custom, edit all cfgs you have in Steam/userdata/<USER_ID>/440/remote/cfg to be blank, then verify game files.

Finally, launch the game with only the -default -autoconfig -console launch options. In console, enter host_writeconfig; mat_savechanges. Quit the game and then remove the launch options.

Hm, wasn't able to find it in the code at first, sorry.

What folder did you install it in and what were your launch options when you tried my config?

mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware should be 0.

If that doesn't work, a workaround that reduces performance is mat_mipmaptextures 0

Ok, thanks for the testing.

Don't use the -NoQueuedPacketThread launch option with anything but net_queued_packet_thread 0.

DX9 can give better FPS, except if you have a very lowend or old GPU.

Not sure what you mean by outdated, they still work

Doesn't exist

Sorry to hear that! Did you properly reset TF2 and install it in the correct folder with the specified launch options? and what preset did you use?

Don't see how it's bad

The lower the value, the most more consistent/stable the framerate.

There's a lot of factors that go into that. Video drivers are more mature and maintained for DX9, DX9 itself has a lot of optimizations and improvements to resource control and GPU commands, and Valve has improved its DX9 renderer a lot more than DX8. It's hard to pin down any one thing that has the most effect, since there are a variety of improvements that make it better.

Thanks for these benchmarks.

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Blog post comes out. Some stuff about the anniversary. Then, at the end of the post, they say they don't have a date for the Pyro Update yet but they are working on it and it should come out soon. Valve then releases the Pyro Update an hour later.

Then they can say they were early with the update.

That's entirely possible.

You shouldn't have conflicting dxlevels for -dxlevel and mat_dxlevel, and I don't recommend using DX8 for performance reasons on anything except old cards. DX9 is a much more efficient renderer that takes advantage of hardware better and has a bunch of performance optimizations Valve has not ported to DX8. Though, I totally understand if you're using it because you like the look and feel of it.

The dxlevel overrides reduce particles more aggressively. They will be applied on dxlevel 80, 81, 90 and 95.

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