Keep in mind it doesn't necessarily have to be ESEA doing the wrong doing. Installing the client opens a backdoor the could be potentially exploited by a 3rd party.

Cause you're to lazy to look. HERE

https://i.imgur.com/G0nLYqH.png

http://play.esea.net/?s=content&d=privacy_policy

Just as a FYI "This information collection is not strictly limited to when you are logged in to the ESEA Client." this basically means the last statement "screenshots while you are logged in and playing a game through the ESEA Client" doesn't necessarily have to be true in terms of legal matters.

I know some people might think it's a joke, but seriously it only take 1 overly trusted idiot/asshole to fuck everything up.

So, this update doesn't effect non-cheating players at all.

Yes it does. I work for a business where I have to frequently use my local PC to view into sensitive documents, servers, switches and routers on a regular basis. ESEA makes a literal backdoor that can at the VERY least view what's on my screen at any given moment. Knowing this I would be putting my job in jeopardy just by installing the ESEA client, and not disabling it on a regular basis.

I know the argument about bitcoin mining is a bit old, but ESEA has already proven to have a lapse in judgement of giving someone enough control for something like that to slip through, that I have no idea that it may happen again or not.

Am I going to install the ESEA client to play matches? Yes. Am I going to do everything I can to make sure the client is disabled when I'm not in a match? Yes.

If I get banned for doing so that's fine with me.

here's a config for you to try out and see if it works

mat_motion_blur_enabled 1 
mat_motion_blur_forward_enabled 1
mat_motion_blur_strength 10000
mat_powersavingsmode 1
fov_desired 70
mat_queue_mode 0
mat_viewportscale 0.5
mat_viewportupscale 1

Have fun with the shittiest looking, most nausea inducing game ever.

-edit-
I dare someone to try this, you'll want to tear your eyeballs out so fast it wouldn't even be funny.

I'll do my best to look into this tonight.

If you don't know what you're doing (or you try to use 1000Hz WMOs). Though I still use windows 7, resource wise though 8.1 uses a good bit less and you would notice a 3-5% boost in performance between the 2 OS's

"mat_viewportscale 0.5"

The value for that command is .5 to 1.
.5 means textures will be rendered at half resolution, 1 means full. the closer to 1 you are the most clear the game will look, the closer you are to .5 the less gpu power you would use, which does actually matter for people using their processors "gpu" (I'm unsure of the technical term for it)

cl_new_impact_effects 1

Thought I fixed that, fixed now. Thank you!

While I have done this for myself, I don't feel like the performance gain is as significant as some people believe, and could easily have someone disable something that they actually need/use

mat_mipmaptextures 0 / 1
https://imgur.com/a/gH9gL

Thought I'd let people know about this command it's a (almost) purely aesthetic difference
default it 1, and as far as I could tell setting it to 0 doesn't play well with the Cinema config with certain stairs/walkways

of course it wouldn't be the best fps but that's really up to you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXYqGSSKqjQ

also

m_rawinput isn't "turned off" it's actually commented out so your previous settings should remain correct assuming they've been saved before

Technically what he said has possible meanings.
1. He legitimately thought I put no mention of mods in there and thought of those 2.
or
2. He thinks I should add more just like the other 2 I mentioned

and as answer to his inquiry I did add 2 more at the end of the 2nd Post (can't blame him it's A LOT of text)

Other Cool things
http://teamfortress.tv/thread/21756/prism-hud-clean-tf2
http://teamfortress.tv/thread/17973/making-your-tf2-look-blocky-again

Hud Elements
All hud elmemnts eat up frame rate, turning off commands like cl_showfps, net_graph 1/2/3/4 ,

Fixed thank you!

assuming the 1st line is "disable desktop composition" I believe that should work fine.

I don't remember if I put in automatic reload or not...

I know I have fast weapon switching, fov 90, and the interp already though in all of them (or at least they should be)