Oh Jesus Multi-Core Rendering in TF2

[ultama121]

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]

Yes, very much so.

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

[CN3089]

Fixed a crash on exit in Vista 64

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

[itszutak]

oh damn pretty much everything else there looks good too

[Sel]

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]

My shitty computer cares not for this "multicore" fad. :colbert:

[Timo]

I swear my FPS doubled. Changed from 2x AA to 8x had no effect either, lol.

[itszutak]

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]

Well it makes use of two cores all the time now. Nice.

[flibitijibibo]

Oh sweet jesus my lappy's FPS nearly tripled. Thanks Valve!

[Sel]

Oh sweet jesus my lappy's FPS nearly tripled. Thanks Valve!

Oh man I should check into that.

[itszutak]

well this makes no sense, my framerate dropped with multicore rendering.

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

[Bodzilla]

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]

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]

My fps dropped.
And I has no multicorez.

:saddowns:

[itszutak]

Did you make sure to turn it on :v:yeah that's when it dropped from 40->25 on an empty 2fort map

[CN3089]

from 40

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

[Sel]

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]

2fort

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

[itszutak]

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]

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

[Bodzilla]

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]

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]

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]

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]

i didnt notice a difference at all.

:D

[InnerGoat]

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]

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]

the framerate is too high

[itszutak]

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]

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]

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]

Okay, thanks ^.^

[InnerGoat]

your computer was telling you something


(not to play on egypt)

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