how do i make my graphics look like this?

[arctic gust]

I want to say if it's the result of a config it's one of the chris' config presets, either highframes or dx9frames. Not recommended to use them these days, but you may want to see if medium low mastercomfig is to your liking and go from there.

[balmy kettle]

To add onto this, there’s a few mods that emulate some of the old visuals

https://www.teamfortress.tv/63586/most-of-old-visuals-pack-works-on-serveme
https://gamebanana.com/mods/340801

If you want to copy the saturated colors and make your game even shinier for some reason, there’s also programs like reshade that allow you to add filters to your game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQJ3O_EWpyY

[glacial raft]

nasa

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[glacial raft]

Mmmmmmmm

[heavy edge]

due the game looks.... majestic wtf

[heavy edge]

definitely not either of those configs cause i've tried them and they're potato-esc configs which look nothing like the video

[balmy kettle]

Chances are they used those older max quality configs, but the game has also changed a lot since that video dropped. Namely, the viewmodels, which have different lighting to how they were 10-odd years ago (I believe this was changed during love & war during the transition from w/v_models to c_models).

A lot of the visuals you see can be easily replicated though, but it’s not really possible with vanilla tf2 afaik

You can change the saturation with mat_monitorgamma commands (I think monitorgamma 2-2.6 is the sweet spot if you’re after those rich colors), but there’s truthfully only so much you can do.

[glacial raft]

i dont think any of those mods work nowadays

i tried both versions

and it just crashed my game

nvm its prob cuz soem files need to be reaquired

nvm\

it still crashed

[glacial raft]

nvm

i fixed it

its all good

Thanks guys it worked

[glacial raft]

Would some cfg.tf configs make the game look like the one in the video?

[balmy kettle]

I wouldn’t use cfg.tf personally

[glacial raft]

Even if I don’t care about the fps?

[glacial raft]

What would you recommend then

[balmy kettle]

They’re all pretty outdated and atp mcom presets do what they used to do but better (more optimized)

[balmy kettle]

To answer your question, sort of but not really. Some things you just cannot emulate like the weapon shines.
Sure you can use a config that hasn’t been updated in god knows how long to get the most authentic vanilla experience, but it won’t ever look 1:1 because tf2 has “downgraded” graphically since.

In 2024 I’d use mastercomfig ultra/high and reshade (I can provide you a preset if you want). If you play in fullscreen, Increase your gamma. The hud in the video is also modified broesel with a plus health bar and some hud elements like the matchhud removed

[glacial raft]

yes provide me with the preset

[balmy kettle]

sorry i took a bit but the preset should be this. If you need help installing reshade, just dm me. I'd also highly reccomend downloading this lightwarp mod https://gamebanana.com/mods/205374

[glacial raft]

thx

[balmy kettle]

obligatory mastercomfig ultra with mat_monitorgamma 2.6 and all those bells and whistles

[glacial raft]

thx

[balmy kettle]

if you want your game to be even richer you can mess with the saturation, although this leans more into frag-movie territory.

[glacial raft]

thanks

[glacial raft]

lol ultra game me more fps than low

nvm it didnt

but i still get average above 100 fps

[glacial raft]

is it ok if i set everything else to low except for lighting and shading?

[balmy kettle]

sure change whatever