ETF2L – Latest activity in “TF2 freezing constantly” https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/ Reply by rtsh0ck https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-4/?recent=338115#post=338115 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=338115 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:20:13 +0200 Reply by FADe4 https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-4/?recent=338115#post=337814 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=337814 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:32:01 +0200 Reply by Ghostface https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-4/?recent=338115#post=337813 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=337813 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:30:57 +0200 Reply by Animal https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=337810 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=337810 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:27:07 +0200 Reply by FADe4 https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=337806 Quoted from Zadkiel
So I sat down one day and tried to identify what HADN'T changed since the problem started, and found only 1 thing - my graphics card. I didn't think that was the issue, because as I said the problem was only in TF2, but the card was a few years old (a GTX285) and the only component I hadn't replaced in a recent rebuild, so I bought a new card, and wham, freezes stopped. Not had a single one in the 4-5 months since then.
That’s drastic as fuck :D Although I can’t explain why it was okay with a new graphics card I find it hard to believe the graphics cards are the culprit considering the amount of people I know who suffer from this problem. You forgot the biggest thing thats changed during this time; the game. For a solid 6-8months since a certain update every server I connected to I timed out from after 10-30sec and wasn’t able to rejoin as I got the error “STEAM VALIDATION REJECTED” (tried everything suggested in the steam forums and http://etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-12368). I had to join 2/3 random servers and wait to time out just to get and remain on the server I want to play in every time I loaded the game.. how I never sacked it off as a bad job and continued playing I’ll never know. So yeah, sometime in the last 4 – 6 weeks in one of the many updates the games received this problem was fixed/stopped. It was around this time I started to suffer from serious ingame freezes. If I’m honest TF2 has always run like a bag of turd for me, never been satisfied with it. However these freezes were now occurring 10x more frequent and lasted what felt like 10x longer, in reality I’m probably getting 1.5-2sec freezes. There’s nothing but a bunch of old threads about the problem on the steam forums, which never find a solution or get resolved so I decided to try and do some digging on updates. What I found was valve have been doing alot of game optimization for x64 OS’s in recent updates aka “Updated the localization files” and with me still using x86 XP I began to wonder if I should finally make the leap to w7 and if that would resolve some of my many game problems?! This is something I cba to start on atm as I’ll need a good couple of days to backup my stuff and I’m not really sure this would fix anything as I know alot other people getting freezes are on w7 or another modern x64 OS (at least more so than x86 xp=]) – although my freezes do seem to be more severe than the average Joes'. A small victory I did win over VALVe was finding out if I used dxlevel 95 rather than; 80, 81 or 90 it would significantly reduce the frequency of the freezes and generally make the game run so much smoother. Any more information people have on this issue would be greatly appreciated as it’s really putting me off playing and grinding ones gears. Perhaps Chris could do some research/testing on the matter?]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=337806 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:21:08 +0200 Reply by Luzik https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=337241 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=337241 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:57:16 +0200 Reply by Spike Himself https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=337225 Quoted from Spike Himself
Having this too. No mumble issues afaik though. 9800gtx
Fixed it by updating fps config. Derp.]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=337225 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:43:06 +0200 Reply by eXpo https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=337201 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=337201 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:19:38 +0200 Reply by Setlet https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=336694 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=336694 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:12:01 +0200 Reply by ExE https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=336676 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=336676 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:29:17 +0200 Reply by sidude7 https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=336662 Quoted from AnimaL
[...]i do, 460gtx no problems other than usual 1sec freezes once a game that everyone has
same as me..]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=336662 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:06:21 +0200 Reply by Spike Himself https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=336649 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=336649 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:11:07 +0200 Reply by Animal https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=336646 Quoted from Si^
just out of interest nvidia users how many of you have power management mode set to adaptive?
i do, 460gtx no problems other than usual 1sec freezes once a game that everyone has]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=336646 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:05:37 +0200 Reply by sylosin https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=336643 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=support&topic=18435&post=336643 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:29:22 +0200 Reply by baerbel https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/support/topic-18435/page-3/?recent=338115#post=336640 Quoted from LuckyLuke
Same problem here. Validated + defragged TF2 @ ATI HD4850
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