Make sure you have the right power plan selected when you play games. If you're on Balanced or Power Saver your CPU will down clock and kill your fps.

Also, make sure Intel Turbo Boost is enabled. This might be in the BIOS or it might be in some Intel or Dell settings application inside Windows, but even if your CPU isn't getting down clocked 2.4 GHz is still pretty slow.

Assuming you don't have fps_max set to 100 it sounds like your CPU could be a bottleneck.

Try renaming your cfg folder to like "cfg_old" then start TF2 and see if it works. If that doesn't work, try the same thing for your hud with "resource" and "scripts"

If none of that works, back up your cfg, resource, scripts, maps, and addons folders, as well as all of your demos then delete your "team fortress 2" folder. Don't worry about it re-downloading TF2, it'll just pull a fresh copy from your GCFs. Start TF2 from a clean slate without copying over any of your old stuff yet. If it works, start adding back your backed up folders one by one until you start crashing again.

We used to always start the old ones around 8 EST on Fridays and Saturdays, and I'm assuming this will be something similar.

PQL CA and CTF are ludicrously fast and insanely fun, plus you only need one person with premium to host a 6 man premium/private game.

G400 is one of the best mice on the market, just be aware that the cord goes out fairly often on them. It's not a big deal since Logitech is REALLY lenient on replacements(i.e. you don't even need to ship your broken mouse back, they just ship you a new one).

Also, http://www.amazon.com/HandStands-Extra-Large-Super-Mouse/dp/B000TD0QU2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361038074&sr=8-2&keywords=large+mouse+pad

Where is kermit now?

He's got good aim and he's a funny guy, just gets down on himself sometimes. If he can get a bit more confidence in his play I'm sure he could compete on a playoff team.

I think you can just use MGE mod and it works for the ammomod maps(with ammomod rules, not MGE rules).

If you guys are new and just need a server to use for a bit you could probably use the #tf2mix/atf2.org server here:

mumble.atf2.org
64738

Go with the 8320, it's supposed to be anywhere from 10-25% faster than the 8150 at the same clock speeds(according to these reviews).

Your move.

EDIT: oh, I guess it's my move again... :s

Heh, I just put this together over this past weekend: http://open.spotify.com/user/1251330131/playlist/0oqeAx1wE9WWejfANQJtbl

Make sure you hit

http://i.imgur.com/BZqPoHR.png

Sadly there were a bunch of tracks I couldn't find on spotify, so a playlist on youtube would be much more inclusive. However, if this thread blows up it would be insanely easy to just add every youtube video in the thread to a playlist and call it a day.

Different mice react differently to different DPI settings. Very few mice actually perform better at higher DPI, that's usually where you start to see weird positive or negative accel issues. Also, monitor refresh rate and resolution have absolutely nothing to do with your mouse's imperfections, that's all determined by the sensor in the mouse.

That said, the DA still has one of the best sensors on the market and the weirdness you feel when turning on or off raw input is probably the built in accel in Windows kicking in. If you're on Windows 7 turning off "enhance pointer precision" doesn't fully disable accel and, as tranche said, if you haven't used a registry fix that's probably the difference you feel when you toggle raw input.

Also to answer the original question in short: For sensitivity calculators raw input enabled is equivalent to a Windows sensitivity of 6/11 with the MarkC mouse fix(or some other registry fix) applied to disable Windows built in mouse acceleration.

Nice lens.