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ultama121
March 18th, 2009, 08:50 PM
Team Fortress 2 Update Released (http://store.steampowered.com/news/2359/)

March 18, 2009, 5:42 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Added Multicore Rendering



This initial release is aimed at testing compatibility, so the option is OFF by default
To turn it on, go to the Options->Video->Advanced dialog, and check the "Multicore Rendering" option


Other Changes


Several performance improvements to decals and client bone/flex setup
A variety of alt-tab and mode switch fixes
Improvements to the way the engine initializes surround sound, fixing some specific hardware cases
Fixed a crash on exit in Vista 64

MY TF2. IT FLOWS LIKE A RIVER. :O

Seriously though, this is awesome. :heraho:
Oh woops, wrong section. Move to TF2 please. :smith:

itszutak
March 18th, 2009, 09:00 PM
Yes, very much so.

This is a very good thing. Hopefully they fixed the crashing issue.

CN3089
March 18th, 2009, 09:17 PM
Fixed a crash on exit in Vista 64

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-toot.gif

itszutak
March 18th, 2009, 09:53 PM
oh damn pretty much everything else there looks good too

Sel
March 18th, 2009, 10:02 PM
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-toot.gif

And caused another one that happens a few minutes in every time I start tf2 http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-toot.gif

n00b1n8R
March 19th, 2009, 02:32 AM
My shitty computer cares not for this "multicore" fad. :colbert:

Timo
March 19th, 2009, 03:42 AM
I swear my FPS doubled. Changed from 2x AA to 8x had no effect either, lol.

itszutak
March 19th, 2009, 03:53 AM
I wish my AA worked properly.

Either it blurs everything, or I bump up the sample type to "edge-detect", making a 4x sample into a 24x sample :v:

InnerGoat
March 19th, 2009, 09:25 PM
Well it makes use of two cores all the time now. Nice.

flibitijibibo
March 19th, 2009, 09:46 PM
Oh sweet jesus my lappy's FPS nearly tripled. Thanks Valve!

Sel
March 19th, 2009, 09:57 PM
Oh sweet jesus my lappy's FPS nearly tripled. Thanks Valve!

Oh man I should check into that.

itszutak
March 19th, 2009, 10:06 PM
well this makes no sense, my framerate dropped with multicore rendering.

I wonder if it has to do with my using vista x64?

Bodzilla
March 20th, 2009, 02:18 AM
my TF2 was maxed and sily smooth anyway :P
but i'll test this out on the weekend.
god i love this game

i moved into a group house with fella thats been gaming since he was 6.
he'd never heard of it.
i nearly shot him in the face right then and there.
god he deserved it.

CN3089
March 20th, 2009, 02:21 AM
well this makes no sense, my framerate dropped with multicore rendering.

I wonder if it has to do with my using vista x64?

Did you make sure to turn it on :v:

n00b1n8R
March 20th, 2009, 04:12 AM
My fps dropped.
And I has no multicorez.

:saddowns:

itszutak
March 20th, 2009, 07:27 AM
Did you make sure to turn it on :v:yeah that's when it dropped from 40->25 on an empty 2fort map

CN3089
March 20th, 2009, 01:07 PM
from 40

With a 4850?? http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/psyfrog.gif What are you doing, running it at 2560x1600?

Sel
March 20th, 2009, 01:11 PM
With a 4850?? http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/psyfrog.gif What are you doing, running it at 2560x1600?

sir if you read his specs again you would see his monitor is only 1920X1200!!!

p0lar_bear
March 20th, 2009, 04:46 PM
2fort

See there's your problem it only works on good maps. :holy:

itszutak
March 20th, 2009, 06:03 PM
With a 4850?? http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/psyfrog.gif What are you doing, running it at 2560x1600?
16x AF and 4x AA at 1920x1200 because any less than that looks like shit to me :<

Also the DDR2 667 RAM probably doesn't help

Pyong Kawaguchi
March 20th, 2009, 08:55 PM
I noticed that in tf2 with any form of AA on it makes the image blurry, any ideas of how to fix this?

Bodzilla
March 20th, 2009, 09:52 PM
16x AF and 4x AA at 1920x1200 because any less than that looks like shit to me :<

Also the DDR2 667 RAM probably doesn't help
i run everything max with my 8800GTX.
x16 AA x16AF 1920x1200

O__o

Pyong Kawaguchi
March 21st, 2009, 01:11 PM
I've noticed that oddly enough, TF2 is running ALOT slower than it was about 2 weeks ago, Before I could run it at 1600x1200 8xmsaa all settings maxed with 60+fps
Now tf2 wont even let me run it at that, and at 1280x1024 I get about 40+fps
What the hell happened?

itszutak
March 21st, 2009, 07:56 PM
i run everything max with my 8800GTX.
x16 AA x16AF 1920x1200

O__o
what the fuck

Something must be seriously wrong with my computer

E: How much of a difference does the motherboard make?

Sel
March 21st, 2009, 08:18 PM
what the fuck

Something must be seriously wrong with my computer

E: How much of a difference does the motherboard make?

All of it?

Bodzilla
March 21st, 2009, 10:04 PM
i didnt notice a difference at all.

:D

InnerGoat
March 21st, 2009, 11:58 PM
I've crashed twice on egypt today. Dunno if this is the cause though as it was good all of yesterday doing the same shit.

CN3089
March 22nd, 2009, 12:39 PM
I've crashed twice on egypt today. Dunno if this is the cause though as it was good all of yesterday doing the same shit.

your computer was telling you something


(not to play on egypt)

InnerGoat
March 22nd, 2009, 12:44 PM
the framerate is too high

itszutak
March 22nd, 2009, 10:16 PM
i run everything max with my 8800GTX.
x16 AA x16AF 1920x1200

O__o


I noticed that in tf2 with any form of AA on it makes the image blurry, any ideas of how to fix this?

Quotes related; I found out what the problem was.

Edge-detect AA, and in fact anything besides box AA, kills performance with steam games. Also, with the exception of edge-detect, choosing anything besides box AA makes the entire screen blurry, not just edges.

In short: Box AA solves both problems.

Pyong Kawaguchi
March 23rd, 2009, 05:19 PM
Okay, thanks, but how can I set it so that it uses box AA, but specified by the program itself, It only lets me chose it for all games, or not at all :S

itszutak
March 23rd, 2009, 05:54 PM
Okay, thanks, but how can I set it so that it uses box AA, but specified by the program itself, It only lets me chose it for all games, or not at all :S
Set it to "use application settings"-- the drop-down for AA type still chooses which type of AA is used.

Pyong Kawaguchi
March 31st, 2009, 06:33 PM
Okay, thanks ^.^

InnerGoat
March 31st, 2009, 10:06 PM
your computer was telling you something


(not to play on egypt)

Oh yeah that update last week fixed the crashing thanks Valve!