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my pc is not an apple product god damnit

gotta see the positives, atleast now the hud stuff isnt covering the gameplay :)

gotta see the negatives, i have to learn where the "middle of the screen" is

at least now you got a great frame rate

tl;dr mat_viewportupscale 1, needs to be in the autoexec

the config is using the command "mat_viewportscale <number less than 1>" to decrease the rendered resolution, while keeping the display at 1080p

the viewportupscale command will take this lower-resolution, and, basically, up-scale it!

mat_viewportupscale 0

http://i.imgur.com/JS3fktL.jpg

mat_viewportupscale 1

http://i.imgur.com/kraHGtN.jpg

Does this mean your main menu is always open behind your game? If so does closing console do anything?

it probably is always open, thinking of valve.
inb4 hud that removes menu

this helped ty

not a source expert but if you open the VGUI tree it does seem to imply that this is true

you can see for yourself with vgui_drawtree so I'm sure someone with better engine knowledge can make sense of it

how did this happen?
no really someone who knows explain pls

mat_viewportscale says what percentage of the screen the viewport (the view into the 3d world you see) should be sized to. This is always true, but it's mat_viewportupscale that determines how it's drawn to the screen.

mat_viewportupscale 0 says "the viewport only takes up half the screen, well let's just leave the rest blank and forget about it." This is what OP's problem was, he had it set to this.
mat_viewportupscale 1 says "the viewport only takes up half the screen, so let's resize it to fill the rest of the screen" This is what a lot of people complain about with comanglia's toaster cfg, that it makes everything look really blurred.

r1ce does a pretty good job of explaining it.

vgui_drawtree actually seems to suggest the opposite for me. Opening vgui_drawtree outside of the mainmenu shows extremely different components than inside the mainmenu. Though the "show hidden" option crashes tf2 for me and that might reveal something more, I can't say.

What's happening is that the engine is not prepared to redraw parts of the screen that aren't covered by anything, because normally it always should and it'd just make everything laggier if it had to check every time. Even though the mainmenu isn't actually enabled, it's still visible just because nothing actually replaces it and tells the engine to cover it up. If you have something you can drag over the screen (like the vgui_drawtree window) it can end up covering the whole screen, even though there's still only the one instance of it.

Basically, don't go removing your mainmenu hoping it'll help fps, because it probably won't (and if it does, valve fucked up something way weirder than always having the mainmenu enabled).