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zfnWith those performance optimizations you mentioned that dx9 has over dx8 - would any of those affect rocket jumping in any way?
Because I have tested your config on both DX8 and DX9, and dx9 feels a lot smoother and easier to jump with. It could be placebo, but I tried the same jump map on both dx levels, and I had an easier time completing the map on dx9. I do prefer the looks of dx8 though.
That's entirely possible.
hyphenim confused as to what dxlevel override is, is it as simple as just just putting mat_dxlevel 95 in your config but with -dxlevel 81/running dxlevel 81 in your launch options or is it something else, also what does dxlevel override do performance-wise
You shouldn't have conflicting dxlevels for -dxlevel and mat_dxlevel, and I don't recommend using DX8 for performance reasons on anything except old cards. DX9 is a much more efficient renderer that takes advantage of hardware better and has a bunch of performance optimizations Valve has not ported to DX8. Though, I totally understand if you're using it because you like the look and feel of it.
The dxlevel overrides reduce particles more aggressively. They will be applied on dxlevel 80, 81, 90 and 95.
Tholei love you mastercoms
thank you so much for all your great work <3
i really don't know what to say, but this makes me so happy!!!!! thank youuuuuu soooo much <3 love you too
zfnAlso will you be documenting every cvar in the game, even if they are not used in your config?
Sorry, I missed this question. I've been thinking about having in-depth explanations about CVars, commands and engine mechanics in TF2 on the mastercomfig wiki. However, I'm going to wait until after the next major update before I consider actually doing it.
BrimstoneThanks again,
dxdiag
If it turns out to be too much of a time sink to figure out, I can live without the shadows, at this point I'm just glad the game works.
classic tf2 tbh
Hm, maybe it is some memory allocation issue. Try r_flashlightdepthtexture 1 in addition to the commands listed before. Not sure if it will allow for bleeding shadows, though.
I've also released 4.4.7, quite possibly the most boring release of all time.
I'm anticipating the Pyro Update to come soon and for it to change things in terms of cvars and optimization, as every major update usually does, so I'm trying to refrain from doing bigger changes to my config until then.
The Pyro Update will probably result in a bigger update for my config and thus the release of 4.5.0, or if we get a new engine (volvo pls つ ._. ༽つ giff source 2), 5.0.0.
Brimstone
Thanks for the detailed report. I'll look into this, but it would help if you could share your dxdiag info (search for dxdiag, run it, then click the save all information button at the bottom.
amazoc(Q :: What would happen in cl_pred_optimize 0 ,Would it fail to obtain network data in these "client-server offline moments " and missaccurately represent the game status in each of these events causing jittery jerky gameplay ,how prediction would be delayed or affected?).
I guess it would be less resource intensive and could release some frames.
cl_pred_optimize doesn't affect if you predict or not, it controls how much prediction data you reuse if there's no new information from the server, even if the server sends you an update. If you have it at 0, it will repredict everything all over again, even if it has no new information from the server to change the prediction result. 1 will prevent repredictions when you don't get new server information, and 2, in addition to enabling 1, will also prevent repredictions on information that confirms your prediction had no errors. And no, setting this to 1 will not resynchronize with the server, because it only does that if you have errors, regardless of prediction optimizations. So in the cases where 2 would occur, it would not resynchronize if you had 2 off.
Also, I think you misunderstand prediction, and my bad for not fully explaining it earlier. It isn't used for when you lose connection to the server or anything, it is used so your player and weapons react instantly to your keyboard and mouse, and the resultant actions are smooth (like moving forward, your player will move forward smoothly instead of the increments you receive data from the server), because ping and server update rate will delay when you get new updates. And I should emphasize, this only affects your player, no one else.
amazocthe optimizations that takes place when frames are higher than updaterate(66) are way more accurate representations of current game than the optimizations that occur when client is not getting network packets from server and reusing recent packets as per pred_optimize 1 bcoz packets from frames in the 1st situation contain more legitimate positional info.
It isn't about accuracy, it is about repredicting with the same information again, which isn't very useful. So, the optimizations skip repredicting based on unchanged information.
amazocWhat I understand is that "no-errors" in cl_pred_optimize 2 means that the reused old packet with cl_pred_optimize 1 is considered to be in the range to be closely accurate to new data and accepted, skipping prediction and itself prediction resulting to be true as pointed , although still considered a bit innaccurate representation based on the reddit conversation. So what would happen if the last info is considered not-error free?I think in other words ,How repredicting works ? So following reddit post ,forcing to repredict even though its still fps expensive in order to get more "perfect-close position wise-" information might be acquired with cl_pred_optimized 1 ,but based on your cl_pred_optimized 2 statement it does what .._optimize 1 does and when server does send packets,I though cl_pred_optimized 2 was based as added condition where only situation the server does not send packets . Kinda confused.
Prediction optimization 1 and 2 are two different cases that don't happen together. 1 happens when the server doesn't give you new information about your player's position/state. 2 happens when it does give you new information about your player's position/state but it doesn't tell your client that its prediction was wrong. What I meant by 2 doing 1 is that when you have pred_optimize 2, it also enables pred_optimize 1.
What Mao-C said is wrong. Synchronization is not done with new data if there were no errors anyway. So, with cl_pred_optimize 1, you would be repredicting with the same data, if you had no errors.
If there are errors, prediction optimization does not apply and does not affect it.
zfnThis command isn't in your config, but can you please explain what this does:
cl_pred_optimize
The default value is 2, but felix set it to 1 on his config, claiming better hit reg.
No, prediction doesn't really affect hitreg, it just increases the smoothness and responsiveness of what info you send to the server (like weapon firing and movement).
cl_pred_optimize 1 reuses prediction info from the last time your client predicted if the server didn't update you yet about what's going on.
cl_pred_optimize 2 does 1 and also something similar to 1 if the server gives you an update and the prediction turns out to be true.
Most of the time, these optimizations will happen most often when your frames are higher than your updaterate but can also happen when the server legitimately doesn't have anything to tell you about where you are or that you were wrong on a prediction.
Brimstone
my game crashes when i change these three settings and try to load certain maps like cp_coldfront
edit: actually something in the config now consistently crashes my game on map load
i deleted my custom folder, stuck the config in the way i had it before and the game continued to crash
edit2: i tried rolling back to other versions of this config, even tried a comanglia one, but to no avail. the game simply crashes to desktop with no error
Could you set con_logfile console.log and then share tf/console.log (after you crash)
and I assume you've tried the default config?
Firei dont see any reason to buy phones that cost this much, i dont use it for anything that would require this much performance.
idk what people use their phones for that theyd need it, maybe someone can tell me.
checking tftv
amazocnvm and sorry for the mistaken question.
No problem and no need to feel bad about it. I appreciate your curiosity.
amazocThere is a great number of variables targetted to debugging that can be altered w/o svcheats , soo.. they definetely none of them have negative side effects on frames in real time game execution on their enabled default values ?
Not sure what you're referring to. Could you give me an example?
amazocIs not reasonable to lower these ? Actually they arent present in your "comfig"
No, because all 3 are useless and just used for debugging/testing. Rhapsody's comments are completely wrong.
amazocmat_envmapsize
Used for the envmap command to get a sample cubemap screenshot, except the value is ignored and set to 512.
amazocmat_envmaptgasize
Image size of the cubemap snapshot taken using the envmap command.
amazocmat_wateroverlaysize
Size of the debugging texture for water, when using the debugging CVars mat_showwatertextures or mat_showcamerarendertarget.
driftanot sure about texture but you can get high quality weapon models with r_lod 0 and r_rootlod 0
just r_rootlod 0. r_lod should be -1. but lod also control the quality of other models like characters, rocks, buildings, etc
as for OP, there isn't a way to do that without modding probably
Included_MiddleBrimstoneWhat are the shadow settings necessary to see shadows through certain walls?
cl_blobbyshadows 0
and then obvious ones like r_shadows 1 and r_shadowmaxrendered not 0 etc.
edit: obviously fair warning cl_blobbyshadows 0 will let shadows bleed through walls but it also reduces fps fairly heavily.
Also, you should use r_shadowrendertotexture 1
maniacalHey mastercoms, I just wanted to thank you for keeping my frames over 150 when l didn't have a GPU. Comanglia's config worked well, but not as well as your config. Keep doing what you're doing :D
thanks!!! <3
HoppsIf using an HDD, is it a bad thing to use async?
I remembered seeing options for either SSD or HDD
No, it isn't. The only thing that would be specific to SSDs and HDDs is snd_async_minsize but you should only use higher sizes if you are getting problems like audio stuttering.
amazocNice , Having an ATI card that explains why in the video options of in-game menu it only displays selectable 4x/6x MSAA and setting it returns always mat_aaquality to 0. Albeit I can still set and play with mat_aaquality to 2 even when ATI is not compatible with it , and the cvar does not reset or backs to 0, & It gaves me the impression the game-image is bit sharper and smoother , so that ,makes me doubt that they could apply some custom filtering for ATI only GPU's (CFAA which is analogous technology to CSAA from NVIDIA) but I guess it would show it in menu so I discard it.
It checks for an NVidia GPU before using mat_aaquality, so it shouldn't affect image quality on other GPU makers.
amazocI found a cvar use a bit missleading thats the case of host_thread_mode , I know when is set to higher than 0 in a local server it makes freeze but on non-local it works fine , in your config is actually disabled, my question is simple ,since it works outside the local scope ,may this cvar help for those who not make use of hosting or local usages ,since on normal servers it works fines at least for me , sighted you swapped the value from 1 to 2 in a commit ,why that ?
It should help. 1 checks if you have threads available in the thread pool or something like that, while 2 ignores that availability and forces a threaded frame order. 1 is the best/safest value, imo.
sageWhat do you think is the best way to tell if i should be using mat_queue_mode 2 or -1 ?
Just run the timedemo at the settings you would play the game at.
sageat first glance it looks like sourcebench.csv has loads of stuff, but the extra info is just dxlevel, launch options and telling if a few settings are on or offwidth,height,windowed,vsync,MSAA,Aniso,dxlevel,cmdline,driver name,vendor id,device id,Reduce fillrate,reflect entities,motion blur,flashlight shadows,mat_reduceparticles,r_dopixelvisibility,nulldevice,timedemo_comment,
Hm, that's unfortunate, I thought it had a chart of frame times, or at least it used to.