Do the old idling launch options no longer work?

[Xel'Naga]

I've got two idle accounts that I had running today for several hours, and only got one drop on each of them. They both have plenty of droppable time left for the week (they've not run at all in about a month), but there were no fruits to my labor.

Has Valve cracked down on idling? :(

 

[Ruelel]

-textmode -nosound -sw +map ctf_2fort works for me

 

[Xel'Naga]

I'd been using

-applaunch 440 -textmode -nosound -window -nopreload -novid +map ctf+2fort +maxplayer 2 +sv_password "1234"

I wonder if the password is preventing the item server from allowing drops. This actually could very well be true, since comp TF2 is finally picking up. Maybe Valve got a lot of flack to stop having item drops interrupt private matches.

What's the "-sw" part do in your launch options, Rueleler?

 

[Ruelel]

you can do passwords.
and -sw is a shorter version of -window

 

[mohawkg2]

I have not been getting drops as well

 

[Ruelel]

if you're not getting drops try this
http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/tfsgn/fix_item_schema_update_queued_manual_tf2_no_drop/

 

[Xel'Naga]

if you're not getting drops try this
http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/tfsgn/fix_item_schema_update_queued_manual_tf2_no_drop/

Awesome, I'm going to give this a shot.

 

[Irish]

I created a text file called items_game and inserted http://media.steampowered.com/apps/....88697c80d3e6cee9fe3c918f5153a5a5c935826f.txt
in it. Should I be all set? I just fired up TF2 and I'm not connecting to the item server?

 

[Ruelel]

no. you copy all the text from that file into items_game

 

[Irish]

Fetched 1287757 bytes item schema version 99965BA1 via HTTP; update is queued.
Applying new item schema, version 99965BA1

Doesn't look like its reading it?

 

[Ruelel]

well then i dont know.
go ask in that reddit thread

 

[Irish]

Can someone host the text file we drop into our folder?