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Xrm

Lots of crashing since recent updates

Hey, I was wondering if anyone else was having a lot of crashing issues since the recent updates. I've not changed any settings yet randomly it seems that whenever i tab out, or focus gets dragged away (firewall, anti-virus, whatever) it crashes going back in. Periodically it will also just crash my entire computer, screwing up the horizontal so everything just flickers up, like on the old tv's. Reinstalling tf2 now incase anything corrupted, but wondering if anyone else has similar issues lately

Posted Jun 18, 2010, 5:00 AM UTC

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PlNG•

There's never a need to reinstall, just have Steam verify your cache. You could also clear the junk out and get those server specific files again.

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XrmOP•

I forgot about that, I'll remember that if it ever happens again, thanks :D

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bullhead2007•

This is happening to me too. I've checked cache and reinstalled and it hasn't fixed. I thought my video ram was crapping out or over heating, but I'm we're not the only 2 experiencing this. I've seen a few others complaining about it too in various places.

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systemghost•

Somewhere, a few years ago, Valve patched in a crashing patch for my game. It has crashed relatively consistently on map changes ever since. Thankfully it doesn't crash while ingame anymore. There were a few months where I was very worried about my monitor and how it would look with a fist sized hole punched through.

I have noticed some wonkyness with the brand new nvidia 257.15 drivers -- the driver craps out and restarts the service. There are a lot of issues that could be at play. But take heart in the knowledge that TF2 just likes to fuckin crash a lot, man.

What you can do is run it in windowed mode. Set your launch options to: -novid -windowed -noborder That'll keep you from losing focus, at least.

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XrmOP•

Actually i never even thought about the nvidia drivers, but i'm on driver version 197.45 in my GTS 250, so i'll keep an eye out for the newest drivers, and run windowed for now.

Thanks :D

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