At one point I also got a bunch of headshots after doing really bad XD
I recently decided to start playing again, and, man, you never realize how much your skills decrease when you're not playing until you actually take a 5-month break from it. It's so bad, the only thing I can do in even the valviest of pubs is yell strategy at my teammates, and they won't listen to me because I'm not some sort of godly super-soldier. Then again, that WAS on a valve server, so I guess complaining about it is moot.
(04-21-2014, 11:33 PM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: [ -> ]At one point I also got a bunch of headshots after doing really bad XD
Well admittedly I did slightly worse last night, I think that was because of lag though. Something did change and now I'm doing much better with sniping, still not good enough yet to 1v1 most skilled snipers but I got some awesome headshots and out-sniped most enemy snipers I went against. Mouse settings and the mouse in general does make a significant difference because I was doing terrible until I properly tweaked my mouse settings and parameters.
I think my PCI-e slot is PCI-e x16 1.1 which might explain the horrible performance.
TF2 isn't GPU-heavy; I play it just fine (120+ FPS) on a moderately-overclocked 5770 that likes to fluctuate it's clocks randomly if I don't have the OC set up PERFECTLY.
EDIT: Did I mention that it doesn't even use all of the bandwidth allotted to it by the PCIe 2.1 x8 slot I used to have it in, let alone the 3.0 it's in now?
Well I can't think of anything else. No way that it's the cpu and definitely not my gpu. Not everyone is affected by these performance issues such as those with weaker hardware while some with beefy gaming computers are and vice/versa.
I fixed it with a customized version of Chris's maxquality config. On install, the game runs ~30 FPS, but it runs 120+ with maxquality on my computer.
I tried that and didn't really change anything. Something else weird is going on but I can't figure out what is responsible.
(04-22-2014, 04:37 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]I think my PCI-e slot is PCI-e x16 1.1 which might explain the horrible performance.
Wait, you have 2 GPUs right?
(04-22-2014, 11:01 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: [ -> ] (04-22-2014, 04:37 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]I think my PCI-e slot is PCI-e x16 1.1 which might explain the horrible performance.
Wait, you have 2 GPUs right?
Yes but forced downgrade remember? My i7 board died and everywhere I checked is asking way too much for used five year old tech let alone a brand new LGA 1366 board.. A seller on Amazon was asking $250 for a used Sabertooth X58 motherboard like mine except I only paid $199 for one brand new 3 - 5 years ago and think I paid slightly less than that with a discount lol.
So me being poor without enough cash I purchased a cheap Core2Duo E7500 used off of Amazon and more recently a brand new LGA 775 motherboard. I don't have issues with other games which run awesome, only TF2 is being an oddball.