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TF2 closing

Do you have a ATI card?

reply to Cheese
I've been having a lot of problem in the past with TF2.

I started running it in windowed mode, no border, at native resolution and the problems were gone.

This way you can alt-tab out and come back much faster too.

It's not that it doesn't work, the game just closes all together, no errors messages, nothing, it's worked for years just fine this way.

Had some dolt troll on steam forums tell me "it's not supported"...

lol

And it didn't start until this last update

I usually join the game on my notebook at work and idle all day but now, it just randomly closes and is quite annoying.

reply to Cheese
ATI is notrious known for this issue. Their drivers are buggy. I suggest going back to the old drivers. If you really want the latest try reinstalling .

It happens on a notebook and pc, notebook has a nvidia card, and the machine with the AMD card, hasn't had updates prior to this happening.

I highly doubt it's an AMD issue since it started after the last TF2 update, and another issue that happens now too, is if I double click a server to join, it starts the game but doesn't join the server, I have to force it to join the server once the game is loaded. Didn't do that before the update either.

reply to brianiscool
Its not an ati or amd bug, their drivers are perfectly fine. This is a tf2 update issue.

reply to Cheese
Did a clean install on my notebook and still happening... sigh...

sick of these updates valve puts out breaking shit...

reply to Cheese
Still, give it a try.

I think you must add something like "-windowed -noborder" in the launch command of TF2 in Steam.

Do a quick Google search and you should find an answer.

When it broke after an update, I shouldn't have to change anything

I don't want to run it windowed, never had to for years.

reply to Cheese
Then what do you want? Why are you posting this here?

I'm offering you a solution. You don't even want to try it.

I would say that you are lucky if problems only started for you since the last update.

Making the game run in a borderless window at your desktop resolution is pretty much running the game in fullscreen except it's window mode instead. Also, for some reason, it is known to fix many weird problem related to TF2 crashing/closing.

Edit : »forums.steampowered.com/forums/s···=1929378

You can also add -novid to skip the intro video.

It takes less than 5 minutes and it is fixed forever*.

* or until you reinstall Steam

Why am I posting here? This is a public forum? Looking for help? Offering a "solution" of running in a window and borderless, not a solution that works for me.

If the issue hasn't occurred since I started playing TF2 in 07, I shouldn't need to change my settings.

When something is broke, it's broke.

reply to Cheese
Edit : Wow.. what's wrong with you?

Did you even try it? The solution I suggested you will give you exactly the same feeling as if you were playing in fullscreen mode and it's probably the easiest thing to apply that can help you.

Why is it not a solution that works for you?

If you don't want to change any settings, what kind of solution are you looking for?

I could suggest you to clap your hands twice at midnight on a full moon but sadly, magic doesn't exist.

If you don't want to change any setting to get fix your problem, GTFO. You are only wasting people's time. Valve doesn't read these forums.

reply to BigBlarg

reply to BigBlarg
It's not a solution to the problem It's a work around and one I am not going to do and should not need to do. This was obviously an issue with the update

Comprende? Also, I don't need attitude either from someone telling me "they gave me a solution" when it's not a "solution"...

Alright. I still don't understand what weird stuff is going on in your head but fine.

Go away, stop wasting our time. No one can give you a solution. I'm pretty sure you can only get some other kind of workaround like this on these forums.

Contact Valve, they're the only one who can give you the solution : a patch.

Wasting your time? This is a PUBLIC forum. YOU don't have to READ the post. Period.

If you don't like it, don't read or respond