Great Way To Get A Preformance Boost. (Quad/Dual core only)

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Some people have discovered almost a x2 boost of framerate due to TF2 was only utilizing one core. Here's the tip:

When you start up Team Fortress 2 and arrive at the menu>

go to your options and search for enable console.

Next open up the console by pressing the (~) key located on the left side of the 1 key. A text box should then appear.

Next simply type in Mat_queue_mode 2

Quad core users should type in Fps_max 60 (Without locking the framerate cap the frames seems to be almost to high and causes sluggish in frames. However the only thing I notice about this tweak was that your weapon will sometimes appear and reappear but for the performance I feel it's worth it.)

This command will function TF2 to use your second core rather then the default one.

Enjoy.

 

[Signe]

It didn't work for many of the people on Canyon. In fact, it made the graphics stutter and not work right at all.

And, actually, the description of the cvar is:

"mat_queue_mode" = "-1"
- The queue/thread mode the material system should use: -1=default, 0=synchronous single thread, 1=queued single thread, 2=queued multithreaded

It doesn't have anything to do with multi-core, specifically, just which threading model is used.

 

[Freeflow]

Quad Core: not only did it not do anything for me, the sniper scope zoomed in glitches. on Mat_queue_mode 4
Stutters the game on Mat_queue_mode 2

 

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Hmmmm. Well I put it Mat_queue_mode 1 at first, and had 64 fps looking at somehing, then I put Mat_queue_mode 2 and I had 102 FPS.

 

[DrunkenSailor]

If you dont know what your doing this is kinda like making a homemade bomb. It might blow up in your face so you should be careful.

 

[xRomanticDeathx]

I've have tried this before and i do not recommend it, you MAY get a boost in fps but doing so makes the game unstable and most likely crash!

Best to not mess with it if you like playing for more than 5 min.

You want a boost in performance? Sorry thats cost some $!