TF2 Crashing Very Frequently

[Daniel The Medic]

The last 3 times this happened, (3 updates) it was related to multicore processing issues for me.
I just needed to go into to my settings and disabled them even though they they were already disabled.
Every time i restarted TF2 i had to do this as the settings stopped being saved or being handled properly.
If you want to do research on when this bug first popped up, its like November 2011. (maybe even earlier, its been around a long time)

When TF2 first went F2P I remember having issues with multicore rendering causing weird stuff and crashes.

Not anymore though. I run mat_queue_mode 2 in autoexec.cfg and have TF2 set with threaded optimization to ON in nvidia settings (I recently switched from ATI to nVidia).

 

[ViperStriker]

I'll try disabling Multicore Rendering and see if that'll fix it once my re-install is done.

 

[jwso]

I haven't had any problems at all.

 

[Daniel The Medic]

I haven't had any problems at all.

Likewise. Seem to have been spared the agony of a TF2 update this time around.

 

[Mothership]

I'll try disabling Multicore Rendering and see if that'll fix it once my re-install is done.

So did it work?

 

[ViperStriker]

So did it work?

It increases the length of play time but there's still constant crashes.

 

[Stitch/Glue]

It increases the length of play time but there's still constant crashes.

Same here, just tried disabling it, I got to play for a little bit longer but it still crashed

 

[Pinker-tan]

thought i was the only one, my game crashes 30 seconds in :(

 

[Stitch/Glue]

Anyone find any fixes yet? Or anything that could atleast stop the crashes until valve fixes it? I really want to play TF2 right now, but it isn't possible with all these damn crashes

 

[Ruelel]

valve still hasnt fixed it yet

 

[Stitch/Glue]

valve still hasnt fixed it yet

Yea I know, I really wish they would. I just got my new pyro set and I really want to go play on some real servers against real players. All I've been killing today has been bots

 

[Stitch/Glue]

Found out switching to Dx9 fixes it for some people, haven't tried it myself yet though
Edit: This fixed it so far for me
Edit2: This fix works completely for me. I havent crashed after about an hour of playing and the dx9 actually increased my fps and gameplay

 

[Blade D_Hero]

I still haven't crashed, but when I downloaded the recent update the download was 2,000 mb. Maybe the people with the larger download don't crash?

 

[ViperStriker]

I still haven't crashed, but when I downloaded the recent update the download was 2,000 mb. Maybe the people with the larger download don't crash?

That's weird and yet if it's true, complete bullshit.

 

[Ruelel]

seems like -dxlevel 95 fixed it for me.

 

[ViperStriker]

-dxlevel 95 worked for me as well, getting used to TF2 looking like that is tough though. I don't lag with dxlevel 95 but as soon as Valve releases a fix I'm going back to dxlevel 81.

 

[Stitch/Glue]

-dxlevel 95 worked for me as well, getting used to TF2 looking like that is tough though. I don't lag with dxlevel 95 but as soon as Valve releases a fix I'm going back to dxlevel 81.

Same here, I don't like how everything is all shiny. But I have to admit, since I switched to dxlevel 90 I haven't lagged as much, which makes me kind of want to stay on it

 

[ViperStriker]

Same here, I don't like how everything is all shiny. But I have to admit, since I switched to dxlevel 90 I haven't lagged as much, which makes me kind of want to stay on it

Everything has a purple hue to it, it's very weird.

 

[Mothership]

Hmm, I think I'll try dx90 in a few then. As far as I can tell, it has something to do with someone joining a server which causes someone who was already playing there to crash. Played in an empty server with some bots and I didn't crash at all.

EDIT: Holy shit, it works. I think I'll stay with my new settings for a while now.