"if you look at all the negative reviews of this mouse, they cite universally one problem: the dreaded intermittent USB disconnection.

This happens because the cord of this mouse is extremely light. This was a design choice to keep the cord's weight from moving the mouse after you let it go, which occurs frequently with other mice. Unfortunately, this light cord has a flimsy connection with the board in the g400's guts.

TO KEEP THIS PROBLEM FROM HAPPENING TO YOU:

1. Place the mouse wherever you're going to be using it, and plug it into your computer's USB port

2. pull the mouse down to the lowermost extremities of your mousepad / mouse surface. Now pull the mouse out another 6-8 inches out, and scotch tape the middle of the mouse cable to the underside of your desk

3. Enjoy having an awesome mouse for the next few years

The purpose of this fix is to greatly reduce tension in the cord, minimizing stress on aforementioned flimsy connection."

This is from a review I read before I bought my G400, and seriously have had 0 issues in 7 months with my mouse. Oddly enough this is something I've always done with my mice was a bit surprised people didn't do this.

-double post- Why can't I delete this after merging with another post?

I personally think he should upgrade to Windows XP, also XP/Vista/7/(any32bit OS) 32bit can handle 4GB RAM

Also like to state your PC is getting old enough to the point you might as well just buy a new one. They don't make/sell CPUs for that socket type much anymore, same with DDR2.

XP uses less idle CPU/RAM usage than Vista, he WOULD see a FPS increase.

Ancient Domains of Mystery

2639 frames 19.947 seconds 172.30 fps ( 7.56 ms/f) 6.574 fps variability

I've tested this demo in a lot of different ways, things as simple as moving your mouse or pressing a key effects your FPS. I lost about 2% FPS just by doing those things in that test.

I've also played pubs for about and hour and a half and my average FPS went from 101.8 to 89.6 in that demo.

Point, alot of things effect your fps. Also restart TF2 if you've been playing for awhile and are about to do a scrim/match.

^This will likely be true for about 99% of people who play TF2, but people with low rpm HDs and/or bottle-necked by their RAM may see a FPS increase.

8509 frames 89.021 seconds 95.58 fps (10.46 ms/f) 8.416 fps variability

8509 frames 87.177 seconds 97.61 fps (10.25 ms/f) 5.715 fps variability
same settings that were in post #36 difference of about 4 fps

//cl_threaded_bone_setup 1 [b]//Causes crashes on disconnects![/b]

Hmm haven't experienced this yet, I will definetely say something if I do start experiencing this, but how I think cl_threaded_bone_setup works I would not be surprised if this is true if someone had a processor that didn't support to many threads (most likely less than 3, and you will probably have issues).

also like to say adding -32bit to my launch option increased my average FPS by about 3, but this should only help if you're running a 64bit OS.

other interesting results

Pre-SteamPipe

2639 frames 26.708 seconds 98.81 fps (10.12 ms/f) 4.014 fps variability
2639 frames 26.091 seconds 101.15 fps ( 9.89 ms/f) 4.014 fps variability

the only difference between those 2 results, is me moving my mouse around and pressing keys occasionally. (the one with less fps I was moving my mouse/using my keyboard)

I assume the command just makes bone models it's own separate thread completely, I also assume this command will only give an FPS increase for People with at least 3 threads on their CPU. aka Tri-Core and above.

Since MaxFrames and HighFrames were both made for literally the crappiest PCs which are usually Single/Dual Cores which is great for them but most people use these configs with Quad Cores, and was likely just never optimized for the MaxFPS a Decent PC could get.

My Guess on the matter.

-edit-
It seems most people got around 10-15fps increase, and the lowest I could see was mine with 7fps increase.

Most of the editting was pretty good, but some of it like the blood on the screen during melees, and a few of the transitions seemed a bit too distracting to the overall quality of the video. Music choice wasn't bad per se, I just don't feel like it fit the pace of the frags/video.

Still pretty damn good 8/10 would watch again.

perhaps you have a variable clock rate on your CPU, and it lowered the clock rate of everything including your demo... kinda like how people would Overclock CPUs in the past to gain speed hacks in older games.

you demo setting might've got mixed up, idk but if you have and binds that slow demos down you might've pressed it

also noticed that
cl_threaded_bone_setup 1 (it defaults to 0 for maxfps and highframes)

2639 frames 25.937 seconds 101.75 fps ( 9.83 ms/f) 3.899 fps variability

when it was

2639 frames 27.844 seconds 94.78 fps (10.55 ms/f) 3.452 fps variability

I will make more posts if I find anything else that increases FPS at least for myself

2639 frames 30.184 seconds 87.43 fps (11.44 ms/f) 3.084 fps variability

Disconnect 1 of your monitors and see if that helps, could also disable some aero settings for when you play.

2639 frames 35.798 seconds 73.72 fps (13.56 ms/f) 2.738 fps variability

CPU and overclock: Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.2 GHz (default)
Graphics Card: HD6670 1GB
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800

Driver version: 13.1
dxlevel: 81
Resolution: 1440x900
Full-screen or windowed: Fullscreen
FPS configs enabled: Chris MaxFrames (with texture and light filtering turned on)
Shadows: enabled

aero disabled as well

I ran this test twice got mostly the same results, but the 2nd time I ran another FPS benchmark and got the roughly the same average, but my minimum was like 46fps and max was about 89fps.

-edit- all bellow will have the same setting originally states with only minor differences

same setting shadows turned off

2639 frames 30.000 seconds 87.97 fps (11.37 ms/f) 3.595 fps variability

same settings as Original but with light and texture filters off

2639 frames 34.305 seconds 76.93 fps (13.00 ms/f) 3.692 fps variability

same settings as Original except with mat_trilinear 0

2639 frames 33.573 seconds 78.60 fps (12.72 ms/f) 2.574 fps variability

(oddly enough I also tried texture/light filters off + this and noticed that leaving the filter on and this off gives you more FPS)

ragdolls on

2639 frames 36.929 seconds 71.46 fps (13.99 ms/f) 2.133 fps variability

mat_specular 1

2639 frames 33.963 seconds 77.70 fps (12.87 ms/f) 2.576 fps variability

weird I didn't think this would help fps...

mat_specular 1, mat_trilinear 0, shadows off

2639 frames 28.449 seconds 92.76 fps (10.78 ms/f) 3.515 fps variability

I would like to thank the OP for making this otherwise I wouldn't be able to get a decent minimum fps, and I hope some of my results help people find out what settings they want to use.

oh and I've been wondering for awhile if the file found in this thread ozfortress com/showthread.php?t=39676 (it removes the bullet impact debris) increases FPS or not

2639 frames 27.844 seconds 94.78 fps (10.55 ms/f) 3.452 fps variability

(this is with the last settings I used)