What's the value of mat_dxlevel before and after you do mat_specular 0?

There are some different things that will affect your performance on Linux.

1) Drivers. In some drivers, you won't be able to use high texture quality due to some problems with large texture stores in 32-bit processes. Also of importance is getting the latest drivers. You should be using a git version of Mesa for Intel or AMD, or the latest drivers from Nvidia.

2) CPU scheduler. It is important to use a desktop oriented scheduled like MuQSS.

3) Kernel Hz. If your kernel is configured with a low hz, you will get less FPS and longer startup times, unless you have a kernel with the high resolution timeouts patch included in the ck patchset.

4) Disk scheduler. A lot of the frame hitching in TF2 is caused by delayed disk loading for sound and models. If you get a desktop oriented disk scheduler, like BFQ, TF2 will have less problems with the disk.

5) Process prioritizing. You can use Ananicy to prioritize the TF2 process on the CPU and IO.

Well 4.0.0 is in beta but should be better than the main version. Has less extra config customization options, though, which I am working to add soon (stuff like chat and hud customization).

Is that with -high? And it will be interesting to test this on Windows vs Linux, because of the different CPU schedulers they have.

Try snd_spatialize_roundrobin 1 to reduce the effect or snd_spatialize_roundrobin 0 to completely remove the effect. This questionable default will be fixed in 4.0.0.

Except Valve has changed its policy in ~2010 to 2013, when they had to accommodate for Dota 2 development with IceFrog and also had the great cleansing in 2013. The work on whatever you want policy produced Half Life 2, Half Life 2: Episode 1, Half Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, Portal 2, and Team Fortress 2.

This is a new Valve nowadays.

Project Borealis

https://www.reddit.com/r/dreamsofhalflife3/

Ok, I updated the config. Is the issue solved now?

Only maxperformance, or does it happen with the default config as well?

The i61 announcement was under "News", but then people were complaining about it so they moved it to "Blog".

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4.0.0 beta updated to move the comfig out of autoexec, added maxperformance, maxquality and comp cfgs.

https://github.com/mastercoms/tf2cfg/tree/4.0.0/mastercoms/cfg

Try using r_worldlightmin 0.004.

I just removed textures that didn't exist from the texture preload list in order to speed up game startup time by a little bit.

I updated the config to try and fix the problem in 4.0.0b4, but I'll be able to be better figure out the problem if you could share your specs.

The black texture issue didn't happen to me on Linux, sorry :(. I made it to be default at 0 in 4.0.0b4, thanks for the report.

Hm, so I guess this net_maxpacketdrop is pretty useless if it is only used for timing out from a server. I changed it to 500 in 4.0.0b4. Hopefully that's enough to fix the problems.

New beta autoexec for 4.0.0: https://github.com/mastercoms/tf2cfg/blob/4.0.0/mastercoms/cfg/autoexec.cfg

Has improved organization and comments, as well as better defaults and options.

I'm working on new presets for 4.0.0: maxframes, competitive and maxquality.

I don't know if I should make a lowend/potato/toaster preset because usually what ends up happening is some people think lowend = fast and then use it on their modern/powerful PCs. Besides, there are a lot of variations in accomodating different lowend PCs that probably can't be accounted for in just one preset, so I think it is just better to refer to the documentation to determine the best settings for your PC in that case.

There have been a few controversial defaults in the config as well. Most of you may have had problems with host_thread_mode 1 and wonder why I have it as default when it has issues on local servers. My reasoning is that people will notice their local server games not working and will be reminded to change to host_thread_mode 0, while if it is host_thread_mode 0 by default, there is no reminder to use 1 on multiplayer games for people who do not read the documentation. Of course, I'm here to provide a good config for the community so if most of you prefer host_thread_mode 0, I'll change the default.

hm, honestly i think it would depend on the situation, idk though

good guess! i might have one of the highest, but i'm not very active in many threads and i would expect for my activity in my own thread to die down a bit once my config has been adjusted more.

also im a her