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-nops2b -softparticlesdefaultoffConfig:
// DX8 style lighting
r_ambientboost 0
r_rimlight 0
mat_phong 0
r_worldlights 0
mat_disable_lightwarp 1
mat_hdr_level 0
// DX8 style shadows
r_shadows 1
r_shadowrendertotexture 1
r_flashlightdepthtexture 1
r_flashlightdepthres 128
// DX8 style water
r_waterforceexpensive 0
r_waterforcereflectentities 0Yeah admittedly I shouldn't have used the word scale. My bad.
3CP. It doesn't give a defensive team too much of an advantage and combines the best of KotH and 5CP.
But in all honesty/seriousness, having these dynamic team balances of defensive vs offensive aren't very well suited to the current rules of the game.
The best solution is to have one team always defending and one team always attacking like in AD or Payload. Unfortunately, those modes have their own problems, especially payload.
Predmat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware 1
FYI this command made my tf2 crash on startup.
Good work on the cfg.
Yep that's why it was removed in a config update. Was just making sure no one had it in their config.
HoppsWhat does cl_idealpitchscale 1.3 do?
Well it is supposed to change the rate at which your pitch changes when doing some client side pitch adjustments, not sure if it works in TF2.
Setsul, perhaps you misunderstood what I was trying to assert. I was trying to say that TF2 does scale in the sense that it will use more cores as available, since the person I was replying to was saying TF2 only uses 3 threads. I was trying to correct that error. In my previous post, I thought I made it clear I was already aware of the synchronization issues so not sure why you told me about that.
sage
Hm, apparently max performance has a problem somewhere because people have been having lower FPS with it. Also, did you use the same launch options for both configs?
kawadoes esea client run under WINE
even if it did I'd be scared of getting esea banned or something
I wouldn't recommend running an anticheat or any system verification stuff under WINE.
WheatleyMine has nothing like that in there.. Do I just add it in or?..
No that was causing crashing.
WheatleyOkay, so I just ran a benchmark on the comp.cfg, and the maxperformance.cfg and the results are;
MaxFrames - 2639 frames 32.479 seconds 81.25 fps (12.31 ms/f) 6.658 fps variability
Comp - 2639 frames 31.326 seconds 128.24 fps (11.87 ms/f) 6.645 fps variability
Interesting. I'll look into what's causing max frames to be lower than comp.
FreedeerfIt does have this and I am also using the 4.1.0 release
It's fixed in the 4.1.1 release, but was fixed earlier in the latest git commit. I should really be on top of making new releases.
Does your max performance config contain the option mat_forcemanagedtextureintohardware 1?
FreedeerfI just updated to the latest version of your config, and for whatever reason the max performance crashes my game. The maxframes version of your previous config does not do this. I need help
Is it the latest version from git or the 4.1.0 release?
SetsulHow do ~30% CPU usage and 10-30% GPU usage imply good scaling? Scaling with what?
I meant the cores. However, even though the Source Engine scales its usage of cores, it doesn't use them for very important things and when it does multithread, there's a lot of throttling and bottlenecking going on in the Source Engine for synchronization purposes. I was just trying to point out that TF2 does use more than 3 cores.
Also keep in mind that I was at a low resolution.
ElyassuWould -dxlevel 81 not give better performance? That is what I found was the case with my desktop anyway.
No, most of the performance benefit from dxlevel 81 is by turning off effects that can be mostly turned off anyway in dx9, as well as giving an alternative rendering pathway to some old weak GPUs that can't handle dx9. The DX9 rendering pathway more effectively uses GPUs and it also enables a lot of other usages of modern PC hardware.
gemm
tf2c uses source sdk 2013 i believe while tf2 uses 2009 so it's not really a fair comparison
windows core % isn't very reliable and is a simplification so i wouldnt trust it. i'd expect the desktop to outperform the laptop but make sure it's set to max performance and try giving tf2 slightly higher priority
No it uses Source 2013.
Firetf2 only uses 3 threads (more or less but ill let setsul explain the details), and i assume that a notebook i7 probably has lower single core performance than a desktop level i3.
you can always try to fiddle around with configs tho to increase your performance.
TF2 scales pretty well, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faNeipYH4cw
ElyassuYeah the clock speed of each core on the desktop is higher than the laptop.
Feels bad that a £1.5k laptop gets outperformed by a 4-5 year old £700 desktop
In addition to the config, you can try -dxlevel 98.