The real point of the update

http://i.imgur.com/j0ccI59.png

Oh, did people think I was defending pubs or the update at all? That'd explain the -frags. No, that wasn't the point.

Hate to break it to you, but the number of competitive players is almost negligible compared to all of the public players. Valve didn't make this update because they intentionally wanted to bone competitive Demos, it's because we're not a big enough blip on their radar to care. The competitive game has been made from what Valve gave us, it's not like they gave us any competitive tools to begin with.

According to this it has been running on the discrete card. But the performance is still so shitty that it's hard to believe. I have friends with similar rigs that get double my framerate.

Looks like the next step is to contact NVidia. Thanks to everyone for your help, I did get quite a few frames out of this thread and continuing to search elsewhere. Thanks, guys.

Done. Still crappy performance. I'm starting to think there may be something wrong with the GPU, but other games (more graphics-intensive) seem to work fine.

I tried updating my driver last night, and all of my settings reset themselves. Now I can't choose hl2.exe to run through the high-performance GPU like I had set earlier - if I click it, it won't register and defaults back to AC4.

This is getting pretty ridiculous, and doesn't seem to be an issue any more with TF2 not recognizing the card, but the card's incompatibility with TF2.

This icon says that there's "one program" using the discrete card when I click it, but it doesn't say what program it is. It still says "one program" when I close TF2.

If I right-click the TF2 icon on my desktop, there's no option in the context menu to run the game with the NVidia card.

When I go directly to my /Team Fortress 2/ folder and attempt to run the game using "Run with High Performance Graphics Processor", I get the error message "Setup file gameinfo.txt doesn't exist in subdirectory 'hl2'. Check your -game parameter or VCONFIG setting."

Got a slight boost in frames, not quite sure that did the trick.

Hey tf.tv, I've googled and searched everywhere I can to fix this problem and can't seem to figure it out.

I have this laptop: http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-V3-771G-9456-17-3-Notebook/dp/B00CRT6DJO

SPECS:
- Windows 8
- 2.2 GHz i7-3632QM CPU
- 6GB RAM, 750GB Hard Disk
- Discrete 2GB Nvidia 640M GPU
- Integrated Intel HD4000 GPU

The laptop uses NVidia Optimus technology, which runs the discrete GPU only when the program requires the extra performance. For whatever reason, TF2 does not enable the discrete GPU. This means I'm stuck at running TF2 at around 45-60 frames in firefights, even with Maxframes. How do I know the card isn't enabled? I can change graphics properties in NVidia Inspector, such as increasing LOD Bias, and it changes absolutely nothing about how the game looks.

I've tried:
- Enabling the card when the TF2 program runs: http://i.imgur.com/wvK4ALp.png
- Turning on the card to run all programs: http://i.imgur.com/ZYRxNvH.png
- Using Razer GameBooster
- Running ThrottleStop
- Running Steam with the NVidia Discrete Card

Nothing works. Help me out?

Yep, seeing as how INF's Steam profile picture is literally boobs

http://www.ugcleague.com/players_page.cfm?player_id=76561197971285557

Has anyone tried reaching out to all the Silver+ 6's teams in UGC? You might get a couple teams whose goal is to join ESEA-O eventually, so why not start them now?

http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/products/trackir5/

Just came across this bit of hardware being used to see around a cockpit in a flight simulator and I did a bit more research. Apparently in FPS games it can sense where your head is pointing and your field of view shifts to accommodate it. I was wondering if anyone here has used/owns a Track IR and can comment on its usability within the game, or if they're even compatible?