joejoe347if they force viewmodels I will actually flip a shit.
This is the one thing I would flip out over, and it would actually be worth it to flip out over.
Turywickedplayer494I'm personally glad that DX9 is a requirement. DX8 is extremely antiquated (it's from even before the Windows XP days). Sure you might complain "b-b-but my FPS!", but do you see CS:GO players playing on DX8 at Valve-sponsored tournaments? Didn't think so.
My laptop struggles to play TF2 at a constant 40 FPS, that is with dx 80, a insanely good FPS config, AND a resolution of 854x480, if I was forced to play on DX 90, tf2 would be unplayable for me
Newsflash: I started off with TF2 (and PC gaming beyond little Flash games in general) on an old AMD Athlon system from around 2006-2007. I didn't bother with DirectX 8 even though I had a painful 10 FPS. Yes, 10. 20 or so at best, but usually 10-15. I could have used DirectX 8, but I didn't because I knew that Valve could have killed it off at any point either partially (like now) or completely.
After I decided to be a jackass and try putting Windows 7 on that same desktop, the motherboard gave up the ghost. I had to resort to playing on a laptop intermittently with some 4000 series AMD integrated GPU. I had most settings at high or a few steps short of high, and it was perfectly playable. There was also another laptop that I could have used (it has some Intel Centrino), but didn't because I didn't even want to chance getting the same stuff again.
Then, I built my current desktop, and 3 years later, I'm still happily chugging along at ease with everything at maximum on DX9. The only sorts of "trouble" I've had at all with a 3570K and a 660 Ti is only just recently with Just Cause 3, but even then it's "playable" (less so than that AMD laptop in terms of estimated frames, for reference). 30 FPS "playable", maybe not the "pleasant" of 60 FPS+, but still perfectly playable with most things high or a step or two away from it.
If you lot are having problems, maybe it might be some power-saving hippie shit that's on by default or something? Check your motherboards and Windows power settings too, make sure your mobo's on at least "normal" and Windows is on high performance.