Damn I've never seen a savaging like this before, absolute destruction.

Anecdotally I got more fps using max graphics settings than chris or comanglia configs after the gun mettle update.

If you're doing a full "factory" reset of all your tf2 settings make sure to disable steam cloud if you have that enabled, in my experience it can interfere with some of the config files.

Happy testing.

Feels bad man

how did you find this footage of me

Are you gonna stream today?

i play with lights off because then the room is a reflection of my soul

Would it be possible to get a version of this mod that also removes weapon skins?

What will Slin do now?

Are you using any special configs?

happy birthday

I've had the same issue as you for a long time.

As a disclaimer, I don't know a lot about how the sound system works in Source games, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

I believe it's the hard drive that's taking too long to load the sounds into memory. At first I believed that TF2 only needed to load the sounds once from the hard drive and from then on the sounds resided in memory which would explain why it only lags the first time around. But when I put on the "snd_async_blocking_spew 1" command I believe all the "blocking load" spam is telling me that it's loading from disk every time, so I might be wrong.

Maybe my hard drive is caching recently accessed sectors or Windows is caching recently accessed files. Either way the problem should be more prominent the more files you access while playing (maybe anti-virus scans could load a lot of files, I don't really know), if Windows is caching files it should be more prominent if you have little RAM available. Defragging would help if it's the disk that's caching stuff instead of Windows.

Usually if you warm up your game with a little DM or something it should work fine in most matches, but hearing a spy decloak after he stabbed you is annoying as hell.

Why this happened after you upgraded your CPU and GPU I can't tell, maybe the HDD got a little knock or something. If you have an SSD it's extremely unlikely that this is the issue.

Does it only happen once per game per sound? If you pick up a health kit with a delayed sound, does the sound play on time for the rest of the round?