I'm very attached to my Cooler Master MM720. Out of all the mice I've used with good performance for gaming, it's the only one that doesn't aggravate my wrist pain. Typically shaped mice, especially narrow ones like the G403, force you to clamp your hand shut vertically with your wrist rotated in order to hold it properly, especially if you use a fingertip grip. That's a very unnatural position for your hand to be in and is guaranteed to cause problems eventually. The wider shape and dedicated ring finger rest on the MM720 feels much more natural to me.

I use a vertical ergonomic mouse at my work computer, but using them for fps aiming never felt right to me and most of them have bad sensors and input delay.

All of tragic's advice is good, too. Especially wearing a specialized brace when sleeping, that made a huge difference for me.

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Did benchmark1 stop working for anyone else after the latest update?

I'm getting this error message when I try to run it:

Host_EndGame: CL_ParseClassInfo_EndClasses: CreateDecoders failed.

Seconding joshuawn to say that getting a mouse with a ring finger rest is a huge game changer. Personally, I'm very attached to my cooler master mm720.

Crespi, nobody cares. Just take the -3 frags (it was only -3 at the time) and move on.

Meanwhile, I've also tried:

• Overclocking RAM speed further, to 3600mhz

Bumped fps just a tiny bit higher.

• Adjusting various CAS latencies in BIOS

Every change I made there made Windows BSOD on startup, it doesn't seem like I can get anything better than 16-20-20-40 out of this kit

• Adjusting various CPU settings (disable C-states, disable E-cores, disable hyperthreading, disable thermal velocity boost optimizations, change whatever "boot performance mode" means, etc

All of these settings made 0 difference.

I don't know what those timings mean, do you know how I can view them? My BIOS currently just has those settings on "Auto"

Windows 10 LTSC IoT Edition, 21H2 major update version

No. I'll try playing with those next, but I don't think they'll make that big of a difference.

Turbo reaches 4.7 GHz and stays there, on all 8 cores, even the idle ones (likely from the "high performance" preset on windows). CPU temp never gets above 75 degrees when just running TF2.

ASRock B660M-C, latest bios version

Teamgroup T-Force Vulcan Z, DDR4-3200

I've noticed as much. I overclocked my ram to 3466 mhz and the benchmark fps improved a tiny bit:
2639 frames 9.324 seconds 283.04 fps ( 3.53 ms/f) 21.245 fps variability

By the way, for anyone missing benchmark1 file

Here's the copy of it that I had saved: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/916933591664054282/1079632447265849504/benchmark1.dem

No difference on dxlevel 90:
2639 frames 9.540 seconds 276.63 fps ( 3.61 ms/f) 19.854 fps variability

I think I have XMP enabled, but I'm not 100% sure of that because ASRock's bios settings are in broken English. This is what Windows sees as my RAM timings, though:

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

Results from my new PC:

i7-12700f
Radeon 6700XT
16 GB DDR4-3200

mastercomfig medium
dxlevel 95
1920x1080 fullscreen

benchmark1.dem
2639 frames 9.629 seconds 274.06 fps ( 3.65 ms/f) 27.514 fps variability

I feel like this score is way lower than it should be, versus comparable hardware posted ITT. During normal non-benchmark pub server gameplay, I frequently get fps drops below the refresh rate on my 240Hz monitor.

Is there some hidden-yet-important setting I can change to fix this, or do I just need to go to a lower graphics preset?
I've already tried disabling the Intel E-cores and playing with some of the AMD graphics driver settings, but didn't seem to get any performance changes from them.

At least from my experience, this wasn't the case. It took 3 months after I submitted a report against recess for him to get banned for cheating. Most of our division was suspicious of him at the time, and I talked to multiple other people who also claimed to have submitted their own reports. He also stopped playing RGL at the end of that season (probably because he knew he was under investigation), so it wasn't because any new evidence appeared since that time, either.

this will be my new excuse for whenever I miss my shots

16 years later. I am still an open player.

8 years later. I am still an open player.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2g5vz0ve2llqhqt/67000_Iso__frontier_justice.dem?dl=0

It's not being advertised on TFTV (for obvious reasons?), but RGL is currently holding a "Player Conduct Survey" that they're going to use to justify the next set of bans:

https://rgl.gg/Players/My/Survey.aspx?s=50

https://i.imgur.com/KNoZA15.png

Please vote No if you don't want to repeat this episode again. https://rgl.gg/Players/My/Survey.aspx?s=50