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[Soulwynd]

They made 3 hats and a couple noise makers for Japan relief fund. All the money, after taxes, goes to the red cross.

One of the hats is, of course, 99 bucks.

[Thexor]

They made 3 hats and a couple noise makers for Japan relief fund. All the money, after taxes, goes to the red cross.

One of the hats is, of course, 99 bucks.

Don't forget, they're non-tradeable. Yep, that means all those "OMG SPESHUL HATS MUST HAVEZ" people will be shelling out ~$125. Valve just forced all those assholes to make a huge donation to the Red Cross. 

[Soulwynd]

No, I don't mean it as a bad thing.

It's a good way to donate and yet get something back.

Global Agenda is doing something similar right now as well.

[Darion]

I just bought and downloaded the game, i have all the reqs to run the game...but i'm getting 20 fps..do anyone know why?
I have a Geforce 8500 gt and Core 2 Duo 7500 2.9ghz...

And doesn't makes difference if the textures are high or low.

[Soulwynd]

Your compy is on the low end for it. You might try looking into running it in DX8, there are a lot of guides to speed up TF2 if you google around.

[Thexor]

I just bought and downloaded the game, i have all the reqs to run the game...but i'm getting 20 fps..do anyone know why?
I have a Geforce 8500 gt and Core 2 Duo 7500 2.9ghz...

And doesn't makes difference if the textures are high or low.

...geez, I'm fairly certain that's the graphics card *I* used to run TF2 at (and I achieved a high of ~15 FPS, wewt!).

I upgraded to a newer card when I started IT work in an office, and the generic video cards the company had bought as failure replacements were 8700s. The idea of me installing a superior video card into a random office worker's PC so he could surf the web and fiddle with Excel was what finally convinced me to upgrade. 
_{(Having money to burn after working a high-paying IT job didn't hurt with the investment, either!)}


But yeah, you can always try DX8, assuming you don't mind taking a huge hit to graphics. Alternately, I can say from experience that 20 FPS is still manageable - it's certainly sub-par, but it's not unplayable.

[Satarus]

I used to have a 8500 and it ran around 30FPS or so.  You gotta tweak some of the features.  Shadowing is big one you can turn down for gains.  Water is another for maps with water.  You just gotta keep in mind the 8500 is not a very powerful card so don't expect too much from it.

[Sowelu]

If you are getting less than ~40FPS, and running at greater than 800x600 resolution, you are just plain stubborn and there is no excuse for it.  You're only making your gameplay experience worse.  Seriously, drop your rez if you need more FPS.  The game still looks almost entirely the same, and it'll let you keep those sweet shadows a lot of the time.

[Nilocy]

Making VTF moving gif-esc files for my spray tag.

Good fun with just DF like graphics style.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrEXx8DxsSI&feature=related do you guys remember this? I want this to happen again.

Any suggestions for how to make people get back on the server?

[Charmander]

BRIBERY and COERSION.

The threat of broken kneecaps?

I know I've been bad for getting free time to play, really. If we can get dudes together for some good ol' manshooting and hatwearing over the next few days, I'd certainly join in. Assuming my internet doesn't go ass-over-tit.

[Nilocy]

Game in an hour if yer up for it.

[Mephisto]

Does anyone use achievement servers? I just tested one (and reset my stats so they wouldn't be farked up) and I have to say, I think my playing will have improved. I had time to learn to do some of the junk I had never tried before.

[Shadowlord]

I thought you couldn't reset your stats anymore. At least, the last time I checked, the button/command/whatever for it had disappeared.

[Mephisto]

It's in the backpack, if I recall correctly. There should be a tab at the top of the screen saying stats. At the bottom of the stats screen, I just clicked a button that said "reset" and it cleared them.

Manage Items. Click the "Stat" tab at the top. Along the right side is the bar graph that shows amount of time played and point totals. At the bottom is a reset button.

On that note, I'm not doing terrible as a sniper. At least, compared to the people I was playing with. I'm more of a helper, Jarate-ing enemies and letting teammates get kills. I seem to have improved a bit since getting the Huntsman.

[Ze Spy]

Doing terrible as a sniper?

I think i know who that is :