
novid also helps speed up your load time. Rather then the background being the main focus of loading, your console is. So, I input -refresh 60īy adding -console to the command line, you can help increase your start-up time. If you know your monitors refresh rate, you can set your games maximum refresh rate to match your monitor by adding a simple command line -refresh # My monitors refresh rate would be 60. If you have a Nvidia Graphics card, by putting in -gl is forces Open GL mode. Here are some random tricks for the advanced menu.īy adding -noborder you remove the borders from the window if you're playing in windowed mode. dxlevel 70 = Directx 7.0 (Lower Quality) dxlevel 80 = Directx 8.0 (S'medium Quality) dxlevel 81 = Directx 8.1 (Medium Quality) dxlevel 95 = Directx 9.0 (Higher Quality) dxlevel 96-99 = Directx 9.0 (Maxed Quality) These can be put into either your about config, or directly into the area we just added our heapsize. Warning! Chief\_runningwater was having problems with this. my heapsize is: 1572864, in the image it's less because I used 2048mb.įyi, heapsize is also addable in the AutoExec.cfg. So, if you have 1024mb of ram, you're heapsize should be: 524288. Once you've found out how much ram you have in your system, multiply that number by 1024 and then divide that by 2. Another way, is opening your run tool and typing in dxdiag.exe It's also a nice way to find out what else you have in your system. If you can't find it there, then I suggest downloading cpuZ and run that. would be going into the start menu, right clicking "My Computer" and going to Properties. The easiest way to get a rough estimate on how much ram you have. When using this tweak, it's recommended to use half your ram rather then all. Now, another cool little tweak you can use it -heapsize basically it uses the amount of ram you tell it too use. Boot up steam, go to your games, right click TF2 > Properties > Set Launch Options and add the following line: -novid Tired of the start-up movies? Disable them. Links and such can be found at the bottom. To open the console in-game, press "~" the tild key.
