Team Fortress 2

yea, just remembered I had it, bought it when I had my old comp but couldn't run it. Played for a bit today and liked it. Who else plays? Hit me up next time you're playing

2Fort ftw

I used to play too until I realized it was pretty much a time-based upgrade system.

yea I don't really get the deal with that

dude i narfle the garthok all the time, its a good game

i have it
i don't play it anymore though because there are so many upgrades and shit that I don't understand nor have the time nor energy to research in depth

hats? wtf?

The time based upgrade system bothered me too (I don't really like the idea of nolifers getting an advantage over casual players in FPS), but it's based on achievements rather than time actually, and some servers will help you get your achievements (search for servers with "achievement" in their name, or running maps with a name containing achievement.
Otherwise, I usually play on a server called TnT. But I don't play a lot since I have some FPS issue (I get like 15-20 FPS in tense situations, if anyone has a solution I'd be glad to hear it).

Good to know, and as for solution...buy a new comp or upgrade, thats what I did and my fps is much better altho that may not be an option for u

Yeah I can't really afford a new computer for the moment :/ Plus my current one isn't that old, it's just that it's a laptop. The strange thing though is that lowering the detail level doesn't really make me gain a lot of FPS (10-20% at most)

i got it but im rarely on

are you running a lot of programs in the background, moss? That may help, other than that maybe try reinstall css, i can't really suggest anything else.

surf wrote:

are you running a lot of programs in the background, moss? That may help, other than that maybe try reinstall css, i can't really suggest anything else.

Already tried that (you meant reinstall TF2 btw? ), no success Oh, well, I guess I'll have to live with it :/

well since your using a laptop, do you have your dedicated video memory maxed in your OS?

Jimbo wrote:

well since your using a laptop, do you have your dedicated video memory maxed in your OS?

It's a "real" graphic card, not just a chipset. It has 1GiB of VRAM, which is definitely too much according to GPU-Z (which reports a maximum usage of around 200MiB). So I can be sure that the VRAM isn't the issue.

Sounds like a cooling issue perhaps?

ya, sounds like your over heating lol

Nah it's definitely cold enough, doesn't even reach 70°C while some ppl are reporting working temperatures around 80°C. Plus Crysis Warhead works decently. I actually found a workaround: I play in 1024*768 in windowed mode, and my FPS are much better (I don't remember seeing them drop below 40 with these new settings)

hrm, well do you have intel speed step turned off?

Jimbo wrote:

hrm, well do you have intel speed step turned off?

Hm... No but the CPU's frequency remains properly high while playing, so is it really worth trying to disable it? (you configure that in the BIOS I suppose?)

either bios or power settings in your screen saver properties, like right click desktop, personalize, screen saver, change power settings...