Hey bud.

It looks like your RAM is at 1600hz which is HALF of what it could be! Easiest way to know for sure is just open Task Manager and go to performance > memory and it will tell you right there in "speed"

So yeah verify with task manager what your RAM speed is and if it's actually 1600 or anything other than 3200 then you definitely need to get in your BIOS and enable XMP or equivalant setting.

Once you've removed that variable, test again and let me know.

I would be interested in knowing the difference after you test again but in dxlevel 90 instead of 95. Would you mind trying that and letting me know? Of course make sure to remove the -dxlevel 90 from your launch options after the first launch and then test.

I also feel compelled to ask if you enabled XMP settings or any other feature required to get the full speed of your RAM?

Man oh man, what a difference 9 years makes...

i7-13700k
Radeon 5700
32GB DDR4 @3600mhz

DXlevel 90
Mastercomfig Medium-High
1920x1080 fullscreen

2639 frames 7.283 seconds 362.33 fps ( 2.76 ms/f) 33.025 fps variability

Okay I understand now, sorry for the trouble and thanks for your help

Let me explain more what I'm trying to achieve. If you go into advanced video options in game, the drop down for shadows has low medium and high.

Having this setting on high basically allows you to see player models through walls at times.

Therefore I'd like this to be set to high regardless of the preset I'm using, if possible.

Thanks for your response. I created a folder tf/cfg/overrides and in there put modules.cfg and in that file I put the following line of code

shadows=ultra

I must not be doing it right as shadows are still medium

Hey mastercoms, I have a simple question. I love the medium preset but would like to enable high quality shadows. What's the easiest way to achieve this? Would it be to modify the vpk or add a command to my autoexec? Again, I just want the shadow detail to be highest but everything else the same

This has been resolved. The issue is that I wasn't unloading SOAP properly. The following 3 commands must be executed to unload soap

sm plugins unload soap_tf2dm
sm plugins unload soap_tournament
mp_restartgame 1

Dave AC

Thank you for your hard work. This possible deserves its own thread?

Awesome! Thanks man!

Hey Everyone

I noticed the spaceship DM servers have spawns configured for cp_sultry, but the official SOAP repo does not have this updated yet.

I'm not sure if anyone from spaceship would be willing to share that spawn file, or how to contact them.

Or if someone wants to point me to some documentation for how to do this myself, that would be cool too.

Thanks

Admittedly I haven't though about this enough to articulate a distinction, but yes I do think there is one. I googled the difference between the two and indeed someone has held this contention so I do believe there is a difference or at the very least some people do.

The hyperlink I made sums it up in the first sentence saying that self-deprecating is poking fun at yourself but self-defeating is when that becomes excessive, leading to negative outcomes.

I don't have any strong opinions on this, just something I noticed and pointed out.

Your title says self-deprecating but the body says self-defeating. Which is it or do you believe those are synonymous?

I'm really sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but I did search before posting.

I have a server I occasionally play jump maps on. Even without an official jump mod, sourcemod detects that I'm on a jump map and does the impulse 101 thing to regen health constantly..

I wanted to play SOAP dm as well with some friends and so I installed it.

Here's the problem: With SOAP mod installed, it interferes with the "Jump Mode" from sourcemod. Ammo still regens, but health does not.

My question: How do I keep SOAP installed but have sourcemod return to normal and regen health when I'm jumping?

I tried the documented unload/stop commands for SOAP and it still wouldn't work.

Thanks for your help!