tort pls I want to rewatch your portapotty story

i saw the hlds_announce email from Eric and started writing my post in advance...

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so...

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That's what priority is, yeah. But Windows should handle background process management enough that this shouldn't be an issue, no? And if you're seeing real benefit from this you should probably be using something like CPUCores (or one of its non retarded variants) that isolates background processes to separate cores.

Okay, so the documentation that it was removed in the orange box engine is wrong - but how much memory/startup time does it really save?

I thought it's been documented that any threads over 3 that it creates anyway are essentially zombie processes? Wouldn't mind a correction on that.

I'm willing to bet he has m_rawinput 1 in his autoexec, in which case that launch argument is pointless.

Just like the majority of these commands, they aren't ALL useless, but their use cases are so far and few between that it's probably a good idea to not propagate them on the internet.

remove literally all of those launch options, add -default to your launch options, and then try connecting to a problematic server.

if it still happens, it's an issue with the server, steam auth, or your computer outside of TF2. if it doesn't happen, you've got problematic settings because you copied whatever nonsense you found on the internet.

yeah it's a bit of a rant but now I can point people to my post whenever they add stupid launch options, which someone does every single day

jesus christ how horrifying

literally only three of those commands do anything you'd want (novid, nojoy, noborder), and you probably only need two. hell, some of them cancel each other out (noborder and fullscreen).

edit: here im just going to document it so people know in the future

-high increases TF2's thread priority, which should really not be an issue unless you've got a shitload of other applications open
-noipx just disables IPX networking which you don't use
-novid is actually relevant
-nocrashdialog is meant for srcds and does pretty much nothing for your client
-nojoy is really only useful if your game keeps enabling the gamepad and disabling mouse/keyboard (happens for some people), but apparently it doesn't even work anymore so YMMV
-noborder makes it so windowed mode is borderless fullscreen, if you're playing in actual fullscreen then this option does nothing
-threads forces TF2 to use a certain number of threads, this is very likely useless for you as TF2 automatically handles thread creation
-useforcedmparms -noforcemaccel -noforcemspd became irrelevant in 2011 when raw input was added
-heapsize was removed from the game in 2010, and even then, it never did what you thought it did. heapsize affects the size of the chunks of memory the game allocates over time, not how much memory it actually uses
-fullscreen is irrelevant because you can set this ingame
-console just opens the console when you start the game, it doesn't enable the console (there's an ingame option for that)
+map_background preload_room will launch preload_room, i assume you're doing this to preload. this can be moved to an autoexec line though, try:

map_background preload_room; wait 10; disconnect

+exec autoexec.cfg literally will make your autoexec exec twice, wtf. it already execs when you start your game. that's why it's called autoexec.

Sorry, no idea. Could you give a bit more info into what happens? How many servers do you connect to before it stops? What's their sv_pure and whitelist set to?

No way, sorry. Wish I could. Maybe try using cl_first_person_uses_world_model 1 for pyro, so they're less obtrusive but still there.

got some news for you~

You can always use steamcmd to install an old version of TF2 and render your demo with that

Do other players holding the crossbow show it?

so you can still build in the skybox on mercenary park

ok

That's a really weird issue - does Lawena install a custom viewmodel replacer (like mine)? While it's in use, what VPKs does it drop into your custom folder?