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Originally Posted by verek_22

Crap. I'm going to Merry Old England on the 21st, and I won't be back until late on the 23rd. Oh well, I guess it's my fault for not investing in a laptop capable of playing TF2!

Actually, it's possible to run the game below the game's system requirements - but it's going to look real ugly and could cause issues with the game! Here's how you do it:

1. Right-click on Team Fortress 2 in Steam.
2. Click on "Properties" from the menu which appears.
3. Click on "Set Launch Options..." from the window which appears.
4. Enter the following (including spaces): -dxlevel 70 -mat_showlowresimage 1
5. Click the OK button.

A note about Step 4: You can replace -dxlevel 70 with -dxlevel 80 if you want minimal Pixel Shader support, since, to my knowledge, DirectX 8 introduced Pixel Shader 1 and 1.1.