Any benchmarks against pre existing configs?

// These settings will boost your performance on a 4 core CPU
// loop through the leaf asynchronously
cl_threaded_client_leaf_system 1

Have you play tested with this enabled, it's been awhile since I've tried but in the past it caused crashes usually within a few minutes.

This is in the readme file:

// These settings will boost your performance on a 4 core CPU
// loop through the leaf asynchronously
cl_threaded_client_leaf_system 1

I found that the culprit for crashes was actually r_queued_decals 1 (at least in my case and one of my friend's), which should be turned off anyway with low decal counts.

Also, cl_threaded_client_leaf_system isn't actually used by default in the base Source 2013 engine, though I've left it in the config in the event that TF2's engine uses it (through extension of the base engine, or lack of an update for that system).

I haven't personally done any benchmarks, mostly because I use Linux and it won't be an accurate representation of performance since most configs don't have Linux specific CVars, and ToGL (which is what Valve uses to convert DirectX to OpenGL) messes up performance statistics.

I'd love if someone could make their own benchmarks at this point.

I used the config for a day or so and after like 2 hours (?) my game started to seize up and teh RAM usage was just over 1GB. Had to restart my game, would that have been a delayed effect of cl_threaded_client_leaf_system 1 or because of the changes you've made to memory settings in the cfg?

Is there any reason phong is disabled while bumpmaps and specular are untouched? Does mat_phong 0 give more of an fps boost than mat_bumpmap 0?

ye think im gonna wait up on those benchmarks

That's strange. When did you last try my config and what do you mean by seize up?

High RAM usage is fine, though. It means the game is caching more assets for less stuttering and shorter load times.

It's just the memory settings in the cfg, as you said, though the only side effect should be high memory usage, not any performance issues.

As said in the bottom of my post with a note, I haven't gone through all of the mat CVars. I just haven't investigated bumpmap and specular and that's why they're not in the config. I don't know if they're good or bad yet. Sorry if my statement about "popular/most important CVars" was confusing. I'll change the wording to be less so.

I'm going to try to benchmark this config myself on my shitty laptop I'll post the results here.

ty for the thorough commenting.

Thank you! I'd love to see where I'm in terms of performance, especially on shitty laptops. If you could, please try to find CVars in the config that are suggested to be changed for bad CPUs/GPUs.

No problem!

These are the results I got:

Comanglia stability config:

This config:

The fps difference is barely significant, the graphical difference is very noticeable (gibs, high model detail, high texture detail...).
Keep in mind I'm running the game on a shitty laptop, the results might vary based on your gpu and cpu.

Its my bad I haven't read the entire post

What are your specs? And I think it's more fair to use Comanglia's default, since it uses some of the multithreading CVars I use in mine (unless you've disabled those for this test).

I have an i7-4558U CPU @ 2.80 GHZ and apparently I have two graphic cards? Its telling me I have an AMD Radeon R5 M230 and an Interl Iris graphics 5100. It also has 8 gigs of ram.

I'll try that out.
Edit: Isn't the stability config the default one? Were you referring to the toaster one?

screenshots pls

I've just tried it out in-game and I can't even move or shoot, whenever I press m1 it just repeats the shooting sound a million times a second, I'm going to try to -default my tf2 then retry it but I don't think it has anything to do with my past configs.
Edit: turns out this only happens in private servers. The config works fine in-game.

This also happens when using the experimental settings with Rhapsody's config on a local server, try joining a multiplayer server

im getting a white screen ig pls help

It works well online, thanks! Is there any way to fix that though?

host_thread_mode 1 causes this. It doesn't work with local servers but helps in other situations. Use host_thread_mode 0 for when you're on a local server.

Probably a typo here,

also like to add "r_queued_post_processing" may still be bugged for AMD card users. it's commented in the config by default but may want to put a warning there.

Thanks for that typo find. I've fixed it.

Well I've seen that's been bugged on various systems/devices, regardless of vendor, so I won't add a specific warning for AMD.

Thanks for the specs. The Intel Iris one is integrated, the driver will most likely prefer the R5 M230 when you're running TF2.

I meant the high quality PC config.

What are your launch options? Do you have any modifications installed?

https://plus.google.com/u/0/117509153063276923444/posts/fwXVsAzYjpd

I've added that to the readme. Might move it to the wiki once I get more up.

Edit: moved to wiki.

May I use these screenshots? (and under what conditions/copyright license)

You can use them

I've just benchmarked the config again and here are the results:

Comanglia's high quality PCs config:

This config:

I would be extremely grateful if anyone would test these configs with Average and Minimum frametimes and well as a graphed out frametime like this.