+1

At first I created custom/mystuff/cfg but then I realized that steampipe moved my old cfg into the new tf/cfg location. So I deleted the cfg in /custom and I just use the /tf/cfg and everything works fine.

I believe it's this one server in particular that is the culprit

Thanks to my boy jjp, I modified my windows hosts file to block pinion IP's.

After doing this, I no longer got the ad when joining the server

I did however have to sit and wait ~20 seconds for the motd to close, so it still won't block it fully.

tl;dr the adblock still works for me, it's just this particular server is extra tricky about forcing their ads.

Just a few minutes ago, I loaded tf2 and joined a pub, and actually jumped in my seat from the excruciating volume of a stupid pinion ad.

I've had the source adblock (protect.cfg) for a while now and it's always worked great.

Did the full steampipe update break this or is my protect.cfg suddenly not executing or something weird?

Just in case anyone doesn't know what I'm talking about, you can find the adblock here https://github.com/CasualX/SourceProtect

My name comes from two things sort of.

One of my favorite books is 100 Years of Solitude and in that book there is a character named Pietro Crespi.

Also, one of my favorite singer-songwriters ever did a song with a reference to that character, and here it is below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8M0nwnhao

make sure than in tf2 you have your audio set to headphones - not 4/2 speakers.

also go to control panel > hardware and sound > sound > click properties on the earbuds > make sure you don't have any enhancements running that could modify the audio. I think it's best to have "disable all enhancements" selected.

And this part is just my two cents, but if you're running tf2 with a quality config and have the audio turned to high quality, I recommend against this. High quality audio, at least for me personally, messes with my perception of positional audio.

Why can't I see the picture? I quoted his post so I could find the link inside, but why can't I just see the picture in the thread :(

I use broeselhud with a custom menu and everything works fine for me.

Don't use gmang hud

Did you install bootcamp/windows on your mac or get a new pc?

AMC is a piece of shit.

and by piece of shit I mean he is awesome.

<3

Do you have steam cloud sync enabled?

If so, the sync could be reverting old settings arbitrarily

the dingaling override command is completely useless and iirc it doesn't even work anymore (last time I used it I got errors in console that read "unknown command xxxx")

Mine works fine and I have it in the same directory format you have yours in.

Nope, I have no binds like that. Literally all I did was press the up arrow in console to re-input "timedemo benchmark1"

I have a bizarre issue where my results are dramatically different each time I run the benchmark, without changing any settings.

Below are two results, both taken within minutes of each other, and nothing was changed between them - i.e. nothing in my fps config changed, no more/less processes running.

Most of the time my results will be more lower than higher, but I can't seem to figure out what makes each result so different.

I think something is wrong with my cpu.

cpu: i7 2820QM @2.30 (I think it goes up to 3.14 though?)
graphics: AMD radeon HD 6750M

dxlevel 81
1600x900
full-screen
chris highframes
shadows enabled
two monitors, aero disabled

You can do almost everything you want without getting a new computer. I have a macbook pro running windows 7 via bootcamp. It runs windows like any pc does, I'm only limited by my hardware. Before you get a new pc, I would try installing windows via bootcamp.