Issue's with TF2

[FarSeeker]

I've been playing TF2 semi-regularly for about a week now and I like it but I don't think my computer likes it. I have a fairly old comp right now and don't have the cash for a new one. I can possibly swing a new vid card after the hollidays but in the mean time I was wondering what in game settings I can turn down that will help the game run smoother for me? When I get into big battles or lots of traffic the game just goes to shit for me so I end up playing medic/engineer where I'm not always involved in all of the action.

[Triple_6]

I've also got an older computer with all TF2 graphical settings set to lowest. It actually doesn't look as bad as one might expect. Another thing I had to do was disable the custom wave bindings in Ventrilo, because every time someone would join the channel, my game would freeze up for 2 seconds. I've never seen you in Ventrilo so that doesn't apply to you, I guess, but it will if you ever decide to join us there. Typical other advice still goes: disable all non-needed programs running in the background, defrag, etc.

[ColdColors]

Make sure you're on the other team when I play, Farseeker. I totally promise not to take advantage of your situation in order to pad my kill:death ratio.

Honestly, I'm pretty much in the same boat on the more expansive maps. So I avoid the larger firefights and head around the edges looking for ways to break behind the enemy lines - so to speak. I recently changed the viewing angle too, and that has somehow helped out a whole lot. It doesn't look like you can use the same commands that we used in CS/DoD/etc to disable background sounds or excessive sprites...but I honestly haven't done that much research on it and don't really want to.

In conclusion, let me kill you a lot and maybe I'll buy you some better components. There's a 75% chance that I won't do that though. There's also a 65% chance that I just made that statistic up.

[MiddleFinger]

Console commands should be the same, or similar to Counter-Strike. Do a search for TF2 Performance tweaks or something.