daithi1

I'm away at the moment and decided to try and get TF 2 running on my laptop. It installed fine. The gaem loads fine but after I choose a server it loads partly and then stops. I have to C/A/D and it is telling mr it is 'not responding' in task manager.

The system in theory I believe handle it but...

Mobile AMD sempron 3600+
894MB RAM (shrugs)
ATI Radeon Xpress Series 1150

I've heard TF 2 has problems with intergrated GPUs could that be it?

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MagnaCentipede

Possibly. Use the -windowed switch and see if it will work that way. You might also check your firewall and see if it's choking your net connection. The new "custom" server tag loves to open thousands of connections. If that seems to be related to the trouble, I'll dig up the registry key that can throttle it down.

Of course, if you're new to Source games you might not know that they are notorious for taking a good minute or two at the loading screen where they seem to be frozen up, save for mouse motion.

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daithi1

Thanks

Well I am to an extent but I left it for a good 15-20 minutes once but it just sat there being bold.

Nope running in windowed mode didn't help I am using wireless could that cause it?

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MagnaCentipede

That shouldn't be a problem.

Do other Source games work, or do they fail the same as TF2?

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daithi1

Just the game.

It isn't a download problem I believe because I found a vanilla server with no downloads and it still froze during loading.

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MagnaCentipede

I remembered that you mentioned it was labeled "not responding," which requires the system did not lock.

Get filemon here and let it run while you load the game. Freeze it (Ctrl+E, or click the hand-lens icon) when the game jams, and see if the report gives any hints to what the game is doing when it fails.

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daithi1

Hmm Filemon = confusing

I think when it crashed it was using dumprep.exe:728 whatever that is. Then it went to gameoverUI.e:912. Then quickly back to dumprep

It always seems to crash eihter when downloading stuff or when retrieving server info.

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MagnaCentipede

Dumprep is that smacktarded "lol something had an error, let's tell Microsoft!" thing in XP. GameoverlayUI is the Steam Community In-Game system. That might be the problem, since it likely does some crafty hooking too work, however, it would logically affect other Steam games were that the issue.

You might try searching the Steam forums for posts related to hardware similar to yours, as others may report similar problems.

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daithi1

I'm trying deleting local content and reinstalling if that doesn't work I might just give up.

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