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Sup. Basically the deal is that my graphics card fried, and I am now running on what is basically a pretty shit computer (2GB Ram, Inbuild graphics, dual core processor)

I need to optimize my game as much as I possibly can to get a reasonable framerate, I have Chris’ maxfps config installed with the launch options set to fullscreen, I was going to do the LOD Hack that nubonamission posted on his blog, but I remembered reading that that was no longer possible somewhere. So is there much more I can do to maximize my framerate while playing?

Run on lowest res?

get a killer xeno pro network card

Quoted from Destrutor

Chris, your sure to know – does nubonamission’s LOD Hack thing still work or not?

Yes.

Quoted from Destrutor

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Really? I swear I read that valve restricted picmip to 2 or something… if not, why is it only set to 2 in Chris’ maxfps config?

The LOD hack isn’t a config, it goes around the limit that Valve in their Great Minds set by tweaking some driver-related stuff: http://tf2scout.blogspot.com/2009/07/high-lod-picmip-hack-for-tf2.html

Quoted from AnimaL

[…]also, use -high or put realtime(with testing first) on ur hl2.exe

yes, because we all know that process priority gets cycles out of thin air

Quoted from AnimaL

[…]if hes using w7 im afraid its just that simple

it’s an absolutely terrible workaround to steal cycles from system processes. better solution: stop using shitty windows 7.

Quoted from Orchid

Any way to configure the nubonamission driver hack thingie to only work on tf2 and not other games?

i don’t use rivatuner (modded bios instead), it might have some functionality built in, but otherwise it’s all controlled by registry entries, so all you’d need to do is make a script to change the appropriate values when launching an app.

no doubt rivatuner has this functionality, but i don’t use it, so i don’t know where.