Take off -high and -heapsize from your launch option and look into overclocking your CPU. There's plenty of guides you can google for your CPU to get you started. You should be able to get a bit over the 3.5 you mentioned. Don't worry too much about overclocking. As long as you can follow a reputable guide and can realize what you should be doing from it, than it's pretty hard to damage your hardware.

Other than that, there isn't much that would be holding you back. I could get a constant 132 back when I had a core 2 duo @ 4GHz about a year ago.

Most people don't even use a high enough bitrate when they switch to 1080p to make it look as good as it did on 720. 60fps is better anyway.

Should have submitted it as an article.

The best thing would be to remove that white bar that highlights your name. Just makes it confusing quickly counting how many are dead.

This should probably in a new thread, but make sure you don't have any overlays attempting to run in TF2. Mumble and Fraps should work but others may cause crashes. Think of any new programs that may be running and conflicting with TF2, IE: new/different anti-virus, PC monitoring software, or even newly installed hardware.

Probably cause it has a ton of input lag. why didn't you read the posts in this thread first.

Well, for one use these drivers if you aren't already on them. http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_197.45_whql.html

It's the last driver version designed for 200 series GPU's (which includes the GTS 250, which is the same as your card).

and follow this guide to install them.
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1519930

I'll add more later.

EDIT: Memtest86 can only test ~3.5 GB of ram in windows. If you have more than you need to burn/create a bootable copy of memtest to run in DOS. The best method is to do so with each individual module/stick of ram installed by it's self to identify the offending module/modules.

I've looked up orthos, since I've never used it before, and it seems as though it only creates a processing thread that stresses 2 cores? If so, I'd highly recommend using Prime95 instead that creates a thread for each core no matter the number. Running that overnight for 8/9 hours is fine.

That's just the contrast ratio between the white's at the highest back light brightness and the blacks at the lowest back light brightness.

I have a gtx 465 and have no such problems.

@enigma how did you test your cpu, ram, and GPU and what are your PC specs.

Bullet

I don't know how I didn't see this thread for 2 days.

Yea this is pretty much muted.

There's no death/ skull + crossbones symbol for the spec scoreboard. Sometimes it'll say I have 125 HP even though I'm dead.

thanks for the heads up

The average download in the US is 15Mbps. Imagine 2-3 years ago it was only ~6Mbps