Try adding

-primarysound -snoforceformat

to launch options.

I investigated the CVar further, and have concluded that the network benefits are nonexistent. I've now set it to 1. Thank you for pointing me to this.

net_queued_packet_thread is ideal to be at 0, however there is a bug/oddity with Windows where packets need to be queued or else they are ignored sometimes.

It does increase CPU load and affects performance. Vantavimeow has a 6700K so the performance impact is negligible there.

maxperformance.cfg was always about performance, not gameplay. Comp.cfg balances the two.

You can argue that 0.1 is too high, and I would agree with you if was set on the base config or comp cfg, but it's not. It is set on the maxperformance cfg which also has sound spatialization nearly disabled, occassional flickering lighting and other changes which make it only tolerable for people who had untolerable FPS. The maxperformance config isn't meant for people who can't handle those sacrifices/don't need to make those sacrifices. The only thing I want to avoid is making it completely unplayable.

Did not mean it to be.

Is it just skial servers that have this issue, or all community servers? I've heard from some people it only happens on skial servers. I still don't have a clue what causes this, but you could try removing -reuse -usetcp from launch options. I'll try to look into it more. Does it happen when you do use -default, with no other launch options as well?

Just a remnant from when I was making maxperformance.cfg for bad PCs, and comp.cfg was for max performance with decent PCs. I'm not high, nor do I condone the use of drugs. Stay safe kids.

I'll change it to 0.1.

If it is happening with -default, it is probably something on Valve's end.

Hm, the way they're connecting TF2 to this is kind of weird, but understandable.

You can most likely fix the issue by increasing the value of tf_time_loading_item_panels. This is the time in seconds that TF2 will spend on items per frame, so a reasonable higher value would be tf_time_loading_item_panels 0.0005.

i fear seeing anything relatable to me in this thread

Depends. What does your speedtest look like?

cl_hud_minmode is not being enabled by default. It is commented out in the config.

As for hud_sayttexttime, it does change it to 10 by defautl but I agree, it should be commented out by default and I've changed it to be that way now. However, to avoid settings to be overridden, you should always make sure that run your commands after the config.

What are your system specs? And you could try out my config. It is going to be updated further and might solve your FPS issue.

Sorry that you've been having issues. Could you run con_logfile console.log;developer 1 in console and then share tf/console.log when you crash? Also, what are your system specs and OS?

Could you clarify what you were having trouble with when you meant hard to read through multiple files? The only file you should be reading through is comfig.cfg, and autoexec.cfg if you already have your own autoexec.cfg. The rest of the files are just presets based on the comments in comfig.cfg for convenience.

Also, it won't make sense to put the config in the cfg folder since there are overrides for other files as well and I plan to add more after the Jungle Update. That's why the mastercoms folder needs to be in the custom folder.

Launch options:

-nops2b -softparticlesdefaultoff

Config:

// 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 0

Yeah admittedly I shouldn't have used the word scale. My bad.