Re: Lots of crashes

**icky** · 09-20-2007, 08:48 AM

I had a really nice looking and incredibly smooth experience until yesterday when I looked into the video options. I noticed that real widescreen support was in there, and I set it to match my monitor's native resolution. After that change, the game stuttered all over the place and was hardly playable.

I then stepped the resolution around to a series of settings, including what I thought was the original, and I couldn't get rid of the problems. In fact, somewhere in this, the indicator which shows which CP's are in play just vanished off of my screen, and I played a series of rounds without a clue about the objectives. Finally, I rebooted my machine completely, and it went back to normal.

**shakeyjake** · 09-20-2007, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by Santa

Playing it in 640 x 480 has solved my crashing problems. Its not as bad as youd think it would be either.

Wow, I didn't realize monitors would go that low anymore.

**Santa** · 09-20-2007, 11:12 AM

Its windowed.

**WaffleHousChef** · 09-20-2007, 11:23 AM

I was having fun giving Santa 2x health for sniping the trainhouse a good bit last night.

**Santa** · 09-20-2007, 04:32 PM

Its actually 1.5x

**UnDeaD** · 09-20-2007, 05:22 PM

It's been running perfectly for me, only the first day couple crashes, now it still takes about 3 minutes to start up.

1680x1050
8x aa
max settings, and 8x af.

**ultrablue** · 09-20-2007, 10:30 PM

My crashes mostly consisted of crashing during the loadscreen onto a server and crashing between map changes. Every once and awhile I would crash in game.
I ended up doing a complete reformat in an effort to remedy my crash problems for this game. I'll update after a few hours of gameplay to see how well it worked out.

Edit: I havn't crashed once except for an alt+tab out of the game since I've reformatted.

**kormendi** · 09-21-2007, 02:50 AM

Did the update today help with any of the crashing? I don't want to bother upping my resolution if others haven't seen success.

**BHack** · 09-21-2007, 10:45 AM

Yes, it fixed the resolution related crashing. I can now boot the game in 1280 x 960 without the neverending black screen.

**marstein** · 09-21-2007, 01:11 PM

Hmmm - I got the update and haven't been able to join. The loading screen freezes with the steam process on 100% CPU forever. It seems to hang the video driver - If I remote login it unfreezes and I can kill the steam process tree.
My resolution worked fine at 1920x1200 before the update with widescreen enabled. Maybe a reboot?

**ChopStick** · 09-21-2007, 03:45 PM

I was getting tons of crashes (sounding sort of similar). A video driver update fixed all my problems (I hope, no crash in a good two hours of playing last night).

**Avs** · 09-21-2007, 04:50 PM

This isnt a crash but I noticed that if you alt tab (perhaps its video drivers), and alt tab back to TF2, the menu (doesnt happen while playing in game), is all black. Then, if you mouse over where the menu options would be, you can hear them click, and you can select the lowest one and hit enter to quit. Other than that, everything is black.

**boudreux** · 09-21-2007, 04:55 PM

My only problems stem from alt-tabbing in XP. It will start switching back and forth, really quick, and will take me about 3 minutes of patience, before it finally goes back in game. It's a beta though!

**Lyramion** · 09-22-2007, 11:29 PM

Been getting the crashes, too. Was able to play some hours today tho by the 600 resulution

**UnDeaD** · 09-23-2007, 12:06 AM

Update caused it to go black when alt-tabbing.

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