mastercomfig automatically sets res upon opening | mastercomfig | Page 1

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 3:56 AM

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I'm running mastercomfig ultra and every time I open the game it resets res to native, ignoring launch options. which file controls that so I can manually set the desired res?

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:15 AM

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It doesn't do that

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Can you post your launch options?

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There's nothing in mastercomfig that changes your game resolution

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:31 AM

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-novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -nohltv -particles 1 -precachefontchars -fullscreen -w 7680 -h 4320

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@hollow ravine

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:38 AM

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You shouldn't use the -w/-h ones, there's no need for them. -fullscreen is never needed either.

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Can you explain fully what the problem is?

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You launch the game, change the resolution after you've launched it, and then next time you launch it the resolution has been reset instead of stay at what you changed it to?

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:45 AM

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hollow ravine You launch the game, change the resolution after you've launched it, and then ne...

exactly

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it launches at my monitors native resolution, I change it, it resets to native again

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:46 AM

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What's the native res of your monitor?

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Also how are you changing tf2's resolution

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:46 AM

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1440p

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I'm changing it in the options menu

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:48 AM

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Is 8k an option in your windows display settings?

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:48 AM

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yes

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:48 AM

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Tf2 only works with resolutions that are

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:48 AM

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its an option

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I'm able to set it there

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:48 AM

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Alright try removing the -w, -h, and -fullscreen

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:48 AM

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and it runs in 8k till I close

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:48 AM

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It should save 8k automatically and use it

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:49 AM

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removed them, gonna test rn

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still resetting

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:50 AM

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Which gpu are you using?

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:51 AM

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RX 6800

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got this PC a few months ago, it runs so fast at native res its literally pointless to run at that

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like I get over 1000 fps in some cases

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which is so fast the game actively starts speeding up and glitching

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:51 AM

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I wonder if you try a lower res than your monitor (just for testing) does tf2 save that?

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:52 AM

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in private servers I can like double scouts move speed

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:52 AM

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hollow ravine I wonder if you try a lower res than your monitor (just for testing) does tf2 sa...

it used to on my old PC, I think it has on this one but I'll try rn

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:52 AM

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For me, tf2 saves whichever resolution I set in the settings into the tf2 videoconfig in the windows registry and will use it next time (as long as there's no bad launch options like -w, -h, -dxlevel, etc)

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even resolutions higher than my monitor

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I am on nvidia though, I don't think that would matter but it may

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:53 AM

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it remembers a lower res

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I switched to 4:3 1600x1200

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reg editing it probably would be an easy fix

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:54 AM

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Well you can try, but I think it would only work for one session before tf2 would save exactly the same as it's doing now

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I guess you could change the permissions on the res settings so that tf2 could not modify them, but that would be hacky

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:56 AM

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yeah

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hmm

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:58 AM

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Maybe there's someone else in here with an AMD gpu that can test if tf2 saves a higher than monitor res for them

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I only have nvidia to test on unfortunately

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:59 AM

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how about I just mail you my whole gpu!

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lol

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 4:59 AM

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lol

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but there should be some way to make it work

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 4:59 AM

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I have had a nvidia gpu before

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upgraded from a 1060 3gb

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last it checked it worked

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would be a pain to install just to test this though

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:00 AM

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I wonder if the problem has to do with tf2 saving the right res or with loading it

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Can you try setting your 8k res in tf2, press save, quit the game, and then check which res is saved in HKCU/Software/Valve/Source/tf/Settings?

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:01 AM

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ok

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thats a reg yeah

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:02 AM

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Yeah it should save the res there under ScreenWidth and ScreenHeight or something

vagrant yokeBOT Jan 30, 2025, 5:02 AM

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*Yeah it should save the

res there under ScreenWidth and

ScreenHeight or something*

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:02 AM

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Are those 8k or something else?

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:03 AM

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I cant find it in reg edit

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dumped it in adress bar

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didnt do anything

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HKEY current user?

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:04 AM

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Yeah

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:04 AM

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hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:04 AM

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Okay so it's saving fine

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And the issue is with tf2 setting it when it reads

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:05 AM

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hmm strange

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could be a permissions conflict?

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:05 AM

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I don't think so, I think it's just some weird AMD issue

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:05 AM

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I'm running w11 LTSC

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ok

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:05 AM

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seeing as it reads a lower res fine right?

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:05 AM

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yup

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:06 AM

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Did you have to create a custom resolution in the AMD driver settings for 8k to even show up?

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:07 AM

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nope

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8K has always been there as a choice

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its really inconsistent though

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my 1060 topped out at 4k

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here 8k is an option

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my 4050 laptop doesnt even go above 1080p, which is native

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:10 AM

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I think it could if you enabled nvidia DSR

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:12 AM

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laptops mostly locked settings wise

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cause it throughputs via IGPU

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and intels graphics settings are incredibly limited

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cant even set 4:3 stretch on it

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:13 AM

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You can if you install the old intel graphics control panel

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The new 'command center' one is really shitty

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:13 AM

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hollow ravine You can if you install the old intel graphics control panel

oh nice

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:13 AM

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Also some laptops have a mux switch where you can switch the display between the igpu and dedicated one

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:14 AM

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pretty sure this doesnt

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:17 AM

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But yeah anyways idk how to fix your original issue with tf2 not restoring a saved res higher than your monitor

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:17 AM

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but laptop I can live with

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:17 AM

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All I can say is mastercomfig does nothing to change res and also it works for me on nvidia

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:17 AM

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I'm just running tf2 at 8k for the insane AA

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literally pixels dont exist its mind boggling

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:18 AM

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Maybe you could force msaa 16x if your gpu supports it and get a similar effect

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:21 AM

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hollow ravine You can if you install the old intel graphics control panel

spring nimbus Jan 30, 2025, 5:21 AM

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Surely you could just use SSAA

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:25 AM

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I don't know that there's a user-exposed 'SSAA' setting these days

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I don't see one on nvidia

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I'm sure with nvidia inspector you could set one

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But I think nvidia DSR and amd VSR basically replaced super sampling (even though they're the same thing)

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:30 AM

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hollow ravine Maybe you could force msaa 16x if your gpu supports it and get a similar effect

downsampling does absolutely NUKE any form of AA, including SSAA

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and for once the performance cost is a plus

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I still get some 300-400 fps

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 5:31 AM

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I thought SSAA and downsampling were interchangable terms

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I'll have to look more into that

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:31 AM

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SSAA is sorta like it

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but SSAA supersamples edges

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but if something isnt defined as an edge

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no AA

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like clear pixels in a texture

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meanwhile downsampling is literally just rending a picture with way more pixels

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which means everything gets hit by an insane amount of anti aliasing

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to the point where those strange source wires (you know what I'm talking about) look smooth from miles away

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 5:54 AM

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downsampling is pure brute force

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versus an actual intelligent AA meathod it simply pushes more pixels to get better graphics

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 6:20 AM

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This might be a stupid question but doesn't downsampling by a factor of more than 2x actually create aliasing?

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Due to the shannon sampling theorem or whatever

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Like that shimmering you get when you play a 4k or 8k youtube video in a small viewport for example

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Those red and blue stripes aren't just the camera, I could actually see that IRL

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So maybe playing tf2 in 8k on a 1440p monitor isn't that great after all

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I might be missing something though

leaden nest Jan 30, 2025, 6:43 AM

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hollow ravine This might be a stupid question but doesn't downsampling by a factor of more tha...

it doesnt, I cant tell you why though

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but using more than 2X resolution doesnt create issues

hollow ravine Jan 30, 2025, 7:08 AM

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Idk it did for me

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I tried 16k tf2 on a 1440p monitor and it created some aliasing and shimmering

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I guess the algorithm used to downsample would have some impact on it

full loom Feb 5, 2025, 3:54 PM

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I am having the same issue where tf2's resolution is not saved. I use
mat_setvideomode 5120 2880 0
in pre_comfig.cfg to set what resolution I'd like.

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I'm not sure how well it's working because budhud isn't working great at 8k.

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Monitor is 1440p, windows desktop resolution is set to 5120x2880. AMD card. I did this to try to smoothen fps, anti-aliasing, and to heat my room up by hitting TBP limit.

gentle spade Feb 10, 2025, 3:17 AM

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full loom I am having the same issue where tf2's resolution is not saved. I use ```mat_se...

any other resolution within your monitor's resolution, right?

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just not the 5k one?

quaint violet Jun 22, 2025, 11:37 AM

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hollow ravine I don't think so, I think it's just some weird AMD issue

I have the same issue

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my DSR res is not saving

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and I'm using nvidia

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