Have you tried opting out of the steam beta and trying the default settings?

This is the thread about the default settings, not sure where the steam beta one is http://www.teamfortress.tv/30651/boost-fps-with-this-one-simple-trick/

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yes to both of the above. I suppose it felt better but i think it was just placibo, because I did exactly what the thread said and later on revealed my fps and it was no good my friends.

TF2 doesn't care about your GPU. You wouldn't notice any difference between a 950 and a 980 Ti.

So apart from the Steam beta thing there's nothing to fix. Every update so far has resulted in lower fps. Welcome to TF2.

did you try the things in flames thread?
http://www.teamfortress.tv/30651/boost-fps-with-this-one-simple-trick

https://i.imgur.com/HJuQbuk.png

Overclock cpu for better frames.

i have no idea how to overclock and from what i've heard it's not a good idea

If you have a 3770k you paid more money than if you were buying a regular 3770 with literally the only difference being the ability to overclock it. If it wasn't a good idea they wouldn't make products whose only reason for existing is to be overclocked. Overclocking makes a cpu produce more heat and use more power but if you do it right, you'd never notice the decreased lifespan because you'd have upgraded long before it ever got to the point where the CPU couldn't handle the overclock stably.

so am i boned because i can't oc and am i forever stuck with shit fps (i7 4790 not-k)

I am running pretty much the same setup like you i7 3770, gtx 970 with comanglia's config, no hats, dxlevel 98. My fps on some cases reach 230+. In pubs usually 150 - 190. I have another issue though since I had to move and could not bring my 144hz monitor. The game feels very shuttery when you move your mouse around quickly. All the textures look jagged and its very ulpleasent to the eye. But I guess its my new 60hz monitor. I recently bought this gtx 970 card, which replaced the gtx 660 I was using. I tested both cards with the new monitor and they produced the same result. Any idea about what maximum prerendered frames option at the nvdia panel should I use? It defaults to let the 3d app decide.

Btw which is the best dxlevel option at the 9ish range? I was using 81 but since valve wants to have a "user friendlier game" I opted for 9.

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isn't there a thing about having better/similar performance without FPS configs these days?

yes but that's already been discussed earlier in that conversation chain, if you had decided to read

fact of the matter is that tf2 can run decently on almost any POS GPU from the past 5 years. single threaded CPU power is really what you need - that means it's better to buy an i5 from 2011 than to get a modern AMD CPU (at least until Zen), at least in regards to Source games.

then why did you buy an unlocked cpu

fps_max 150?

no

I have a laptop and I managed to oc the locked CPU using a modded BIOS I made. You can just change your bclk speed. How do you think ppl oc'd before the i7-2xxx chips?

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If you're getting shit fps with an i7-4790 something else is wrong.

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Intel didn't lock them before Sandy Bridge?

Try overclocking the BCLK on Haswell, I dare you. Not only won't it be stable it also fucks up PCIe so the GPU won't work either.

Before the sandybridge, the unlocked chips were the extreme edition chips--those were ~1k/chip and weren't very affordable, so most people who would want to do a modest OC (someone looking for more frames), would just buy a non-extreme edition chip and just bump up the fsb speed. Maybe they'd have to buy better ram, but it was still more affordable than dropping $1k on a cpu. With the new unlocked chips, they're not $1k anymore; they're more like $300-350, which is way more affordable and all you have to do is change the multiplier (and voltage I guess but at a low-level, it's very easy and a lot cheaper than an extreme edition chip).

Now I don't own a haswell chip, but I can't imagine that you'll fuck everything up with say a 5MHz increase or something. If that's not the case, please explain because the last chip I worked with was the ivy bridge.

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There were some multiplier shenanigans as well. Either way they weren't locked.

On Sandy and Ivy Bridge a lot including PCIe is tied to the BCLK. 7% is about the max you'll get, beyond that, if not earlier it will just crash and burn. Haswell likes it even less. There's also no need to since you get straps on the K models.

I really doubt you got anything above 105MHz stable on Ivy Bridge and even if:
-Haswell is worse
-the difference between "shit fps" and good fps is definitely more than 5%.

Damn, did not know that. I have the bclk stable on 20 runs of linx @ ~107.66MHz with no voltage changes on the 3630qm.

iirc, wasn't the pcie etc separate on the first gen i7 chips? That is strange since that at least on my 3630qm, with the intel me libraries, the pcie was actually controlled by separate clocks.

Well no voltage changes isn't that impressive. Turbo isn't as agressive on the 3630QM as on some other CPUs but it's still 8/8/9/10. So with linx on all cores you only get 107.66MHz * 32 (24+8) = 3445.12MHz, not much of an increase compared to 100.00MHz * 34 (24+10) = 3400.00MHz max single core turbo. Is it actually stable on 107.66MHz * 34 = 3660.44MHz? Is it fixed voltage or maybe it increased to voltage automatically to compensate? There might also be power throttling even if there's no thermal throttling.

I'd be suprised if you were able to control PCIe seperately since it should be the same die. Not the first time I've seen a modded BIOS display options that weren't actually available. I mean I've seen settings for components that weren't even on that specific mobo.

Yes on Nehalem etc BCLK and PCIe were still independent, kind of a given with a BCLK of 133MHz and PCIe at 100MHz.

I haven't tested it at 3660.44MHz since I have the multiplier locked at 32x. Also as far as power throttling goes, I haven't seen any. Plus I've added in options in my bios to adjust the TDP for the cpu. I just saw no point in having turbo enabled at those speeds, but that's something I may test out at some point.

Fair enough. If I was honest I'm a complete fucking retard when it comes to computers and such so I've got absolutely no idea what certain things do such as overclocking. It was my poor assumption based off what one of my mates was saying one time, my mistake. Even if I was to attempt it, I wouldn't trust myself because I'm no good with stuff like this.

just look up OC's online and go for something modest. I put my brother's i5-3570k at 4.2GHz and it was easily stable with very low vcore. Just don't go for something huge. Something like 3.4GHz to 4GHz should be okay but ymmv depending on your cooler etc.

i got a used i5-2500k from ebay for ~£90 a few months ago, got it to 4.5 with a hyper evo 212 and will probably leave it there until i build a new pc. the only tricky thing is finding a suitable motherboard but the ix-3xxx series boards work with ix-2xxx

Not sure if anybody mentioned this, but have you checked your PC for viruses? That could heavily affect your PC performance. You shouldnt need to OC on that setup to get like 200fps or more. (I have a worse PC than that and rarely go under my fps cap of 187)