I will agree that trying out new maps is good but as console said it's a pretty mixed bag, villa and clearcut are both really poorly optimized and cause bad FPS lag, along with not playing out that well or being particularly interesting. There may very well be more new maps that are better though, we should definitely continue to have new map cups and test things out. What I will say though is this: instead of having a foregone conclusion that badlands and granary are the most hated and need to be removed, we should give them the same chance as the new maps to be voted in. If xattuu and others are right and the new maps are just better, let them win by their own merit and not by excluding the old maps from the ballot. Prolands fixes some of the issues from the original badlands and should definitely be tried as well. I think we should all be a little more open minded instead of assuming that the other side is completely wrong, there's pros and cons of new maps and old maps.

Personally that I much prefer badlands and granary to clearcut and villa, and I would like to see reckoner tried as well potentially. Also, I don't like this argument that just because a map is being currently developed it should automatically be better, let the quality of the map speak for itself. Just because something is being developed doesn't mean it's in a good state now, in fact, playing maps like villa and clearcut in the league I think has cemented people's opinions of them as bad and if they get updated later to fix current issues people will have the bad taste in their mouth still and be apprehensive to play it again. I think clearcut could be fixed if it was less one-dimensional and the cave you can hide your medic in for sacks was removed/restructured, but those would be pretty big changes to make while it's still in rotation. In my opinion we should just vote it out for a season and let the mapmaker try out some different changes in betas, and then vote it in again if it's better.

Edit: the 30 minute stalemate between 7 and EVL was much more to do with match nerves and high stakes of both teams not wanting to lose (also vaccinator last memes by ckj) than the map inherently being flawed. I can't blame them, I wouldn't want to be knocked out of grand finals due to a back cap, but at the same time if either team had taken more risks it would have been a different game. 1 man sacks and spy plays are not exactly the highest amount of effort/commitment you can put into breaking a stalemates, most teams do 2 man sacks and or uber exchanges now which are more risky and help break stalemates better. I've had some of the most back and forth and exciting tf2 matches of my entire time playing on badlands, yeah it's hard to push last but that's true for both teams and it means if you actually do break it you really deserve it. Also, the meta has developed a lot over the ~13 years of the game, there are so many different possible midfight strategies and ways to push each point. If the lower divs really hate it that much that they don't want to re-add it, I would like to see a vote to add it back for invite only like bagel is this season. We have so many maps that play almost exactly the same and are just variants of cp_scout, having maps with different flows and class balance is good for the game imo.

Correct, that is the version I'm on. And not at about windowed borderless, will try it tomorrow. With the above changes it would still eat away at fps having the dashboard open, in a jump map it went from perfectly smooth literally over 800 fps to under 200 and feeling like the monitor was on 60hz (which would make sense given the refresh rate stuff people have been saying). Will try other brothers like Firefox today to see if it's just a chrome thing. Would rather not have to but another option dbk suggested was using streamlabs obs. Have all my stuff configured already and don't want to have to remake all my scenes and such. Also have automatic scene switcher plugin configured and don't know if that even works in streamlabs obs. Bttv is also nice to have which I don't think would work with it. Oddly enough the dashboard didn't always lag me, I would be able to use it sometimes and be fine but other times I'd have to minimize it the entire pug because it felt so bad with it open. Will try popout chat instead but think the animations are the issue. Maybe using IRC would fix the issue? I haven't disabled window aero visuals/animations yet because I thought they wouldn't have any effect due to me not moving the windows or minimizing them or anything (and I kind of like how they look) but will test it out to see if that fixes it too.

Using chrome, have the stream preview disabled, tried enabling and pausing it but same issue. I can have the OBS stream preview open on my other monitor too and it doesn't even add any lag (used to on my old PC it would feel way more laggy). I used to have my second monitor at 144hz with my old setup but the new one only has displayport/hdmi ports so I had to use the included displayport -> DVI adapter but from some googling it doesn't seem possible convert it to dual link DVI, so I guess I'll have to get a displayport cable if I want the second monitor to use its full refresh rate.

240hz main monitor, 60hz second monitor (unless I get a new displayport cable to use instead of the DVI-D). Would the windows 10 limiting refresh rate of your primary monitor go down to whatever the refresh rate of your second monitor is? I don't really mind having 60hz second monitor but it would be nice to have 144 and not have the potential of it doing this shit, or if it did limit it down to 144 sometimes that's not as big a deal.

I'm really hoping there's some fix for this, this seems like such a stupid bug people must've gotten around it somehow.

Edit: did some searching and looks like game mode causes problems so I'm going to try disabling it lol classic windows

I enabled the hardware accelerated GPU scheduling but it didn't really fix it. I'm not sure if this is a thing but it seems to be that when I first start streaming my game feels pretty choppy unless I minimize the twitch window (or have another tab with something else like pugchamp) and then part way into the pug it feels smooth again randomly. I just built my new PC and am using windows 10 for the first time (was on windows 8 before), maybe there's more settings I should configure to get it to run well. Read somewhere to enable game mode in windows 10 so I have that too. Maybe there's some other optimizations I need to do first.

Specs are ryzen 5 3600xt with 3200mhz ram and RTX 2070 super which completely shreds tf2 when I'm not streaming and when it's acting normal (with twitch dashboard minimized). My CPU is only running at like 25% capacity usually and task manager says 4.25-4.3 ghz usually (default speed 3.8, max boost 4.5) but maybe there's a way to mess with the bios to get it to think it needs higher clock for tf2 to be happy lol. Checked the temps and it never went too high or anything, running on stock cooler. Could probably get a better cooler and overclock it if need be but I feel like this is an issue with twitch and/or windows 10. Just changed the affinity of chrome to not be on cpu 0, will see if that helps tomorrow.

Idk if anyone else has experienced this but for some reason when i have my twitch dashboard open on my second monitor my fps drops and it feels super laggy, but if I minimize it the fps goes back to normal and feels smooth. Was watching marmaloo's stream and he was saying he had the same issue so maybe the twitch dashboard is running some new scripts or something that makes it laggier than it would running a regular irc channel or something like that to view chat.

I tried to install jay's sunset menu animation vpk but I think rayshud's custom background is overwriting it, how would I go about doing this? I tried deleting the upwards backgrounds and putting the sunset menu animation in there but it didn't work either. Also tried just putting the vpk in the main custom folder like I think you're supposed to and that didn't work. I would imagine I have to edit some file in rayshud to say not to look for a custom background?

I don't even have words, this is so sad. My condolences to his family and all those who were close to him. It breaks my heart to see him gone, he was so kind-hearted and friendly, and only ever brought positivity to the game. Watching his streams anyone could tell he was such a genuine person. I didn't know him on a personal level but he was always the friendliest and most joyful person person when I got to see him at LAN's. Thinking back to the time we all went to that chinese restaurant at RGB LAN and everyone was just joking around having fun. Will cherish the brief moments I did get to spend with him, and all the great games competing against him. Never take anything for granted. It really is such a tragedy to lose somebody so universally liked and respected in the community. He will live on as an inspiration to us all, both in-game and out. Rest in peace Justin.

I just want to say for anyone who may be struggling with depression, you are not alone. Even though your mind may convince you otherwise, nothing is wrong with you and it is not your fault. If *anyone* in needs someone to talk to, or just wants to chat, feel free to add me or reach out in any way. I don't care who it is, when I was dealing with that stuff when I was younger I felt completely alone and didn't know anyone I could talk to. No matter who you are, I know you have people who care about you and are willing to help. Don't feel like asking for help makes you weak, because it doesn't. Especially now, everyone is having a hard time dealing with the quarantine and being locked up inside. I think as a community, we can use this as a way to come together and be more kind and compassionate towards one another, and drop the petty grudges and vendettas we may have against each other. Be like yomps.

Fair point, not sure how much of an impact it is, but I ran it with my old rig (4770k and gtx 1060) and didn't notice any major impact

Okay I did some tests recording with the mic with various settings and RTX voice basically completely eliminates any noise from my keyboard as well as making leaking music in the background almost inaudible too (only when I'm talking and its turned up REALLY loud, otherwise it basically just does a noise gate and doesn't have anything).

Will have to test in a mumble to see, only problem I can foresee is if other people are talking and I have my audio set loud and RTX voice detects the other people's voices leaking through my headphones, but I guess mumble's echo cancellation should hopefully fix that. For anyone who doesn't have an RTX card you can edit a few lines of code (link) and get it to work. It works surprisingly well and automatically pretty much eliminates all fan noise/background noise, although you can turn the noise reduction down and tweak it if you want.

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I just got open back headphones and I was wondering, are there any good plugins I don't know about for cancelling out echo/feedback loops into your mic? I am currently using RTX voice which does a pretty good job but maybe there's others. Mumble has multichannel echo cancellation which I have enabled but I'm not sure what the actual effect is from it. Would be nice to have something to cancel out the output from my headphones into my mic similar to how phones do it when on speaker mode. Don't listen to music that loud or anything but there definitely is some input to my mic that isn't wanted.

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