From my experience: yes. It really completely eliminates motion blur. Some can deal with it, but I really like CRT quality level refreshing so it means more to me than others.

Lately for me, it's been more about managing my character's body in the context of a fight. If I can take less damage at all times, I can just rely on my aim as much as possible to get big damage. Playing Scout v Soldier in mge will teach you how to move in situations like this where minimizing damage is key. Like others have said, get that tracking down, stick like glue to their character and only take your shots when necessary. Emptying your clip fast and getting 5 damage out isn't effective. Use your pistol only if you know you're going to get the kill with it quickly. You don't want to run around chasing scouts with your pistol doing 8 damage all the time when they're at like 100. Pistol's good for harassing people at distances and it's not too hard to get the aiming down with practice. Really, as others have said, keep playing and you figure everything out eventually. You just have to work/try/practice.

http://www.blurbusters.com/zero-motion-blur/lightboost/

You should go nvidia and do the lightboost hack.

I'd just say make sure your settings in the osd/os are all right and stuff. All drivers up to date. Kill all useless programs. Tweak your graphics for better frames.

Yeah, I'm p. excited too.

Switch 810 if you can spring for it. Phantom full tower, Phantom 410 are good. Lian Li have the best overall quality, but highest price. Fractal cases are good. I'm a fan of Coolermaster and Corsair as well. Any case under 150 will "perform" as good as the next. The thing you're looking for is features and the best bang/buck is NZXT. Best overall is Lian Li, Fractal or Corsair probably.

Sometime in 09 or 10.

Teamwork is overpowered.

Yeah, I added you. I can help out for basic strats and scout stuff.

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Vick, all you have to do is like may a thing of it. Once a week, you hold an open forum in a mumble or a podcast where people's 6's questions are answered. You could have people email them or have just a system for asking in a mumble. You could have like two channels with the host and cohost answering questions, with another channel of people listening. If they need someone to ask them a question, they pull them into the main channel and everyone can hear. Any format that is convenient would work. If you need to, more sessions a week would easily fix high volumes of questions.

Basically, if you're holding you're either waiting for them to do something stupid or waiting for your team to push. You know that pushing into the next "area" (mid, yard, etc) will likely result in your death. Capitalize on that fact and use it on your enemy. I read in a guide that your team is either pushing, holding or falling back at all times. If you're in a stalemate either you don't have the advantage on uber or you're just not capitalizing on your aggression correctly. If it's even or if you don't have the uber advantage as a TEAM it is important to play it safe and do your best to both maintain aggression so that you don't lose the point for free and trying to work picks to get into a position to push again. If you're finding yourself holding know that the only time you can ever push into their "area" is if your TEAM has an advantage. The other team knows this and if they're doing their job they can rely on health and manpower to push flawlessly. Chances are they're not invite and it is still possible for your team to maintain structure in your given area, not take too much damage, try and work the picks and their uber (e.g., sending roamer to pop or spamming a choke as they push in), and keep your whole team in a good position to either re-push, or fall back and work the same approach until you have an advantage. As far as how to play better as scout, always remember never to go past half-way between a point unless you are 100% sure you're going to get a pick or do something to give your team an advantage. Scout is a fragile class and positioning yourself in a place like computer is a bad way to maintain advantage. Always look for corners and high spots that are difficult for soldiers to shoot you from. When I'm watching computers I like to look at it from the valley so that I can have eyes on sewer and choke and because lobby's very close. I have the added benefit of being able to maintain aggression in the area with the help of soldiers on bats (roamers help here) and the medium healthkit that is below a lip. If a scout comes into your area, hide behind that lip and just spam him and make him leave. Maintaining the advantage means you either get a pic or he's forced to leave due to his health. Either way, you don't die in the process. Scout is all about managing your aggression and giving it out in small doses. You may see pros land meatshots but that's because they can play the blindspot. A good analogy for scouts is trying to sack the quarterback. You're going to want to come out of nowhere and hit them with all you've got. If soldiers and scouts are watching you at flank and killing you, make sure you're not trying to win a fight you can't. Call for help or backup and get some health. As long as you don't die, you are still able to do damage to the other team and help.

I really didn't like windows 8. I really like beverages. I'd use it as a coaster and install windows 7. P.S. Vista was an awesome OS that was annoying every once in a while. It got fixed for the most part during the service packs but I think everyone unanimously agrees, W7 is the greatest. Then there's linux for you tech junkies and osx for the pretentious.

I coached once and it was pretty cool. Matches weren't always the best but it was fun. Might stop by again soon to help out some noobs.

As far as being helpful I didn't really have a problem dispensing help to the players, I tried to give them the best layout I could of how 6's functions and how to be effective as a team. The mechanics weren't always there (rollouts, jumps, ubers etc) but I could adequately count on my players to listen to my comms as medic and stick together and try their best to do their jobs. I answered any questions I could before and after the game about anything I could and was constantly explaining why things happened during the game as best I could. Newbie mixes are unbalanced sometimes but I think they can work.

The idea that taggerung has is also a good one. You guys could just set up mumble rooms for questions and maybe even a room for watching casts together where newbies can learn more about the game. I'd personally like to see more written guides. I really enjoy reading about people's takes on how to play the game and guides from pros are even more helpful. SLIN's scout guide and I forget who but there was a good medic guide on some other forum. There's a handful of other guides that I'd really like to see fleshed out by the pros if possible like communication, aggression etc.

Videos and stv's and demo's and streams are all helpful but it's much better to understand beforehand why someone's doing something than to see what they do and misunderstand. Mentors and guides and newbie mixes are all great ways to spread knowledge about the game and build our numbers and create more hype and even the playing fields between divisions to create more interesting matchups all around. All of this discussion we've been having on the forums lately about increasing memberships is great and is a huge step in the right direction for tf2.

TF2 is more of a cpu intensive game. I'm not sure how well your I3 at 2.9ghz will do. Your ram is also at a low speed. Most ddr3 rams run at 1333 or 1666 mhz. Those might be a bottleneck. If you've got aftermarket cooling on the cpu, consider overclocking the cpu, gpu and memory to higher speeds to reduce bottlenecks which results in better frames overall.

If you're not worried about piracy laws you could download a program that turns the trial copy into a full one. Other than that I have no specific suggestion. Browny's got the right idea.