Whoa hey now, I never said anything about paying for windows. But i'm not saying anything about pirating. I'll just say that getting a copy of windows isn't that hard.

For myself, and almost a dozen other people I've converted into bootcamp users, the fps increase is usually double or more. This includes tweaking the windows system for performance, and yes using configs and various settings.

tessypoo you're adorable.

While it's true that if the new computer performs lesser than the old, the difference in windows vs osx wouldn't likely be much, you still will get better performance in windows. osx uses openGL for graphics I believe, and osx is unable to use directx graphics. The fps configs he uses are therefore not that helpful as most fps configs are designed to work with directx settings. So, I agree that the 15inch could very likely have been a downgrade, he will still gain more options for increasing performance by using windows.

I assume you're playing on osx and have not installed windows via bootcamp?

Honestly, if you really wanna play this game and get good performance, you gotta play on windows. Even though you have a mac, that doesn't mean you can't get every benefit of playing in windows with no downsides.

I've played tf2 on my macbook pro 15 inch for over two years and I get great performance in windows. I don't remember what kind of fps I got on the osx partition, I just remembered that in windows it was 10x better and I don't know how I ever played tf2 on the mac side.

You gave a good bit of information, but a lot of it was useless. Like, basically the entire part about spilling milk on your 13 inch was unnecessary lol. Also you haven't really asked any specific question so I don't even know where to begin about giving you advice. There are so many things in the details that could be affecting your performance.

But overall, it seems like your ultimate goal is to achieve better performance. To me, installing windows via bootcamp (it's very easy, there's even an application on your mac now called "bootcamp assistant" that helps you install it) is the first step toward getting better performance. With windows, you'll have a more suited array of tools that will help you diagnose your computers performance. With osx and gaming, I don't think you should be that surprised if the performance isn't great, EVEN THOUGH you claim you had better performance with your old computer.

tl;dr--- I don't know how to diagnose your problem with the information you've given. But, if you install windows via bootcamp you will most likely get better performance right off the bat, and will be able to tweak the system and the game to make tf2 run better.

There is almost no good reason to play in windowed anymore. Valve fixed the alt-tabbing issue on full screen quite a long time ago. Alt-tabbing in and out of game is instantaneous on full screen now. The only unique attribute of using windowed is that when you alt-tab out, it doesn't minimize the game.

I definitely think that taking your hands off your mouse/keyboard and having to look away from the screen, even for a second, is risky. I think that you could use this same idea--if you really wanted to use a external clock to track ubers-- but instead of having to press anything, a simple analog stopwatch that is easy to glance at wouldn't be too harmful.

When I was a competitive swimmer, we used these huge analog stopwatch style clocks that were used when doing intervals, which we did almost all the time. We were able to swim xx laps, stop, look at the clock and instantly know how much time we had left until we had to get going again.

The point is that this isn't a bad idea at all, but I think the more simple, the better.

Actually now you have to make viewmode_fov be -360 because of some weird ass errors.

When on an esea server, do your net_graph reflect your actual interp? Because when I change to a class like scout for example, which I have 0.033 interp for, the net_graph shows 33ms lerp. Could esea still be locking my interp but my net graph doesn't show it?

Just want to say that every time I play a good match or scrim of Gravelpit, I feel like I learn something new about this game. I definitely feel like my ubers were put to the test this past week, on both offense and defense.

I'm really curious as to how this new strange part works.

In most logs/stats websites and plugins, ubers dropped include when you have a kritzkrieg as well. If you die during the 8-9 seconds after you pop the kritz, that counts as a drop. I wonder if this strange part will do the same.

Yeah I mostly agree. I just like the root cfg folder, I don't know why. My favorite part of the new system is the fact you can pack your hud into a vpk file.

I took that as you claiming that tf/cfg doesn't work :s

Uh... dude, no. The root tf/cfg folder works perfectly fine for cfgs. I prefer it because it's a few less clicks away. Wherever you got this information, you are misinformed and are spreading false information. You can use your own custom folder for cfgs, or the root tf/cfg, either work perfectly fine. The thing you want to watch out for is having your cfgs in both places, that will cause confusion.

Moreover, I think that having your config.cfg in your root tf/cfg folder is necessary, and that's one reason why I think it's smarter to just keep the rest of your cfgs in that folder as well, so they're all in one place.

Oh and for the clutter you're talking about in the tf/cfg with all those extra default files, I simple mark those files as hidden, and voila, no more clutter.

inb4 you get chastised because people have made threads like this before, and the general consensus is that you have to just keep practicing. Let me say again, that there is no substitute for practice, practice, and more practice.

To humor your question though, some people say that mge is better, some say DM servers are better, some people are very critical of either modes of practice. I think that mge can be a waste of time if you aren't playing people who are better than you or at least give you a good challenge. But I think MGE supplements SOAP DM and vice versa.

Again, the bottom line is that you just have to practice and practice and practice more.

As for pugs, pugs are kind of meh... Depending on who you're playing with, pugs can vary from a joke/shitfest to a good challenge and learning experience, but the former is what my experience is. There are things you can get away with in pugs that you wouldn't always get away with in a real scrim/match. Play pugs for fun, try to be smart when you play them but don't expect to take too much from it.

Did I mention that you just have to keep practicing?

If you really want to read something about this subject, check out this post

http://teamfortress.tv/forum/thread/8860-how-to-improve-ur-aim#post-131003

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thanks you enigma!!