Video Settings

[$uCkY-p|aYeR]

Anyone have some good links to turtorials or information to video settings.

I haven't searched but I will be today. I am getting good FPS but in big fights it drops to almost 50fps. I tried setting everything to low didn't change anything. I noticed AA was set to none and I don't really know what AA is but when I enabled it to like 4x I think the fps didn't drop but to like 80 a few times.. So set everything back to high and fps stayed right at 80-85 since my max fps is 85... So don't know if I need to set AA higher or what but hope to know by end of the day.. Thanks for any help on this. Oh and I haven't adjusted any video settings thru the cards settings only in game options.

[Cosmic_Shame]

hmm 50fps is good, if ur getting down to like 20fps id be worried. The human eye can only see so many FPS anyways i think its like 30 or something like that so i dunno 50fps sounds fine to me. bump down ur screen resolution or AA should increase it a tad. I run like 150fps-200fps on TF2 and it drops to like 90fps in heavy battle and honestly i cannot tell the difference

[$uCkY-p|aYeR]

Well I more worried about anything below 66fps cause on a 66tic server if your fps drops below that and/or some other things can happen.. Then you won't send a steady 66 updates to the server. But one thing is for sure compared to the 15-35fps I was getting the fps I get now is awesome.. My shots were hitting really good for a change, which was one of the reasons I stopped trying to be a sniper.. Plus game play is perfect for me when fps isn't jumping around and my updates are getting sent and received matching the tic of the server. So that's my ultimate goal minus what is caused by the server.

Yea I think either resolution down or AA up should steady it out. But still haven't looked up any info yet will be shortly.

[DocBlock]

AA is antialiasing, and it increases the load on your video card, the higher you set it. Depending on what card you have, and how busy it is, it may not affect things, but turning on AA will not be something that would cause an increase in frame rate.

So the AA change and the increase/steadiness of your FPS are unrelated.

[Brains]

AA is antialiasing, and it increases the load on your video card, the higher you set it. Depending on what card you have, and how busy it is, it may not affect things, but turning on AA will not be something that would cause an increase in frame rate.

So the AA change and the increase/steadiness of your FPS are unrelated.

actually, since TF2 is such a CPU hungry game, boosting up AA will put more of a load on your GPU thus relieving some pressure on the CPU to calculate AA. (I think, that's what I've heard)

[$uCkY-p|aYeR]

Yea I am going to play around with that and increase the AA see if it gets worse and then back it down tell I get the best setting. I have been reading it seems increasing it does put more load on Video Card and less on CPU. By adjusting that you should be able to find you optimum setting. I could probably put in my sound card also that might give and increase as well. Just been to lazy. Using integrated sound right now.

[stewlounse]

It seems you've got the right idea. You want to find the "sweet spot" that we talked about on down this page: http://exodussociety.com/showthread.php?t=374&page=2

You want your video card to take as much load off the CPU as possible, but without overloading it.

[stewlounse]

EDIT: When I'm thinking in terms of server FPS and client FPS (our server fps is 500-512) that is........confusing hell.

[$uCkY-p|aYeR]

I hear you on that one..

[$uCkY-p|aYeR]

I found my sweet spot hardly moves from 85fps now.. But I have just tried this setting mat_queue_mode "2" default is -1 ... its suppose to enable multi core support for this. It was said that the person would crash after about a hour.. But I haven't had time to test it.. But since I put it in I get 85fps constant never drops so hope I don't crash and I will be very happy.

[TaNNanT]

so what was your setting... and what are your spec for your machine

[$uCkY-p|aYeR]

I left it 1024X768 I left it all on high accept shadow stuff and reflections are simple and I disabled HDR.. put AA on 4x MSAA(I think, I know it is 4x just not sure if there was 2 choices or not) and added this to my config settings mat_queue_mode "2" (its suppose to turn on some sort of multi core thing. But it may also cause your computer to crash every so often at least the person posting that, I haven't and played for about an hour)

Biostar AM3 AMD 790GX
Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz
8GB DDR3 1333MHz
2 VelociRaptor 140GB 10000RPM sata2 (will be raid 0)
GTX260 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 -
Windows 7 Pro 64bit

But haven't really tested to see what my highest FPS is steady.. I just have fps_max 85 cause thats what my refresh rate is 85hz.. So really was only concentrating on getting to hold at 85 and never budge and I done it so I am happy.

[TaNNanT]

That thing you are talking about, when not in action, good fps, when there alot of action, fps go down. When I switch Processor and mobo, i had the same video card, and that nonense of fps drop in heavy action stop.

I found out, my Pentium Dual Core 3.7 GHz suck. Now i'm running a I7, and no more fps drop in heavy action on TF2.