Team Fortress 2 runs fine but crashes after a while
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Iamnotchrishansen
Jiggy Blackson
It will start up and run well for about ten minutes then the video will go out and the sound will still play. This is the only PC game that has done this.
https://www.fakku.net/image-404/images/420368-UBEXD8H.jpg- my specs.
https://www.fakku.net/image-404/images/420368-UBEXD8H.jpg- my specs.
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Tegumi
"im always cute"
@ Previous poster: You're not helping.
This really sounds like a video card issue, but it'd really help if you had read the FAQ before making your topic, specifically the second to last paragraph. Also you'd be much more likely to find a better, clearer, and possibly comprehensive solution if you posted your problem in say, Steam User's Forums (It's run by Valve! Did you know they made TF2?) rather than Fakku. Probably avoid pointless answers like the previous one, too.
This really sounds like a video card issue, but it'd really help if you had read the FAQ before making your topic, specifically the second to last paragraph. Also you'd be much more likely to find a better, clearer, and possibly comprehensive solution if you posted your problem in say, Steam User's Forums (It's run by Valve! Did you know they made TF2?) rather than Fakku. Probably avoid pointless answers like the previous one, too.
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Okay, whenever a Steam game fucks up, here's what you do. Always.
1) Right-click on the game in Steam, select "properties"
2) Under the "local files" tab, click "verify integrity of game cache". This will scan game files; if any files are missing, it will redownload them.
3) If the game fails to launch after step 2), go to your Steam folder (usually X:/Program Files/Steam), find clientregistry.blob, and delete it. This will erase all previous Steam client updates and history, leaving you with a clean Steam client install (does not affect games). This often helps with game launch issues and download issues.
4) If none of that works, go to the General tab under the game properties, and click "set launch options". Change the launch options to -dxlevel 80. This will force the game to run in Direct X 8. You can force Direct X 8.1 and 9 replacing the "80" with "81" or "90". (This will verify if it is a Direct X issue. If it runs with 8, but not 9, download and install the latest Direct X drivers).
5) always ALWAYS make sure graphics card drivers are up to date!
If none of this works, report back here, or go to the official forums at http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/forums.php?AppId=440 ...you may also like to contact Steam support, but their support tickets run pretty slowly, they get a lot of requests in this busy holiday sale period.
1) Right-click on the game in Steam, select "properties"
2) Under the "local files" tab, click "verify integrity of game cache". This will scan game files; if any files are missing, it will redownload them.
3) If the game fails to launch after step 2), go to your Steam folder (usually X:/Program Files/Steam), find clientregistry.blob, and delete it. This will erase all previous Steam client updates and history, leaving you with a clean Steam client install (does not affect games). This often helps with game launch issues and download issues.
4) If none of that works, go to the General tab under the game properties, and click "set launch options". Change the launch options to -dxlevel 80. This will force the game to run in Direct X 8. You can force Direct X 8.1 and 9 replacing the "80" with "81" or "90". (This will verify if it is a Direct X issue. If it runs with 8, but not 9, download and install the latest Direct X drivers).
5) always ALWAYS make sure graphics card drivers are up to date!
If none of this works, report back here, or go to the official forums at http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/forums.php?AppId=440 ...you may also like to contact Steam support, but their support tickets run pretty slowly, they get a lot of requests in this busy holiday sale period.
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Also make sure you got enough ram to run the game. Vista is a memory hog.
May want to have 3-4GB of ram for your case.
May want to have 3-4GB of ram for your case.
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Team Fortress 2 is not a particularly demanding game. If you have a dedicated graphics card less than four years old, chances are, you can play it fine.
This definitely sounds like a graphics card problem. Is it just the 3D that kicks out? Can you press Escape to access the menu? If you can, I'd check the in-game developer console to see what went wrong. Google how to enable access to the dev console.
As noted above, update your DirectX runtimes, your graphics card drivers, etc. I'd also have a temperature monitor running during the game, to check if nothing is overheating. Granted, that's unlikely because it's only TF2 that's screwing up, not your entire display, but it's still a possibility.
Also, monitor the usage of your system RAM and your graphics card RAM. Going over your system RAM usually won't cause problems, as it will just spill over into the page file. But graphics card RAM overflowing can cause serious issues.
This definitely sounds like a graphics card problem. Is it just the 3D that kicks out? Can you press Escape to access the menu? If you can, I'd check the in-game developer console to see what went wrong. Google how to enable access to the dev console.
As noted above, update your DirectX runtimes, your graphics card drivers, etc. I'd also have a temperature monitor running during the game, to check if nothing is overheating. Granted, that's unlikely because it's only TF2 that's screwing up, not your entire display, but it's still a possibility.
Also, monitor the usage of your system RAM and your graphics card RAM. Going over your system RAM usually won't cause problems, as it will just spill over into the page file. But graphics card RAM overflowing can cause serious issues.
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This actually happen to me but not only for TF2, this happen sometime when I play LoL, all the time when I try to join a server in TF2, and rarely with only mozilla. The problem persisted and eventually my computer wouldn't go to my desktop and just have my monitor tell me computer is going to sleep and just freeze.
In my case, if it's with vent or a game, the sound just stop or freezes and with youtube video, it either keep playing or that part get looped. My graphic card is fairly new and I played a lot of WoW which never happen to me, I had a different sort of Black Screen of Death in that I could still talk in Vent and hear the noise from the WoW game which meant my Graphic Card was screwed, the one I stated previous was my driver failing on me as whoever try to fix my PC said.
In my case, if it's with vent or a game, the sound just stop or freezes and with youtube video, it either keep playing or that part get looped. My graphic card is fairly new and I played a lot of WoW which never happen to me, I had a different sort of Black Screen of Death in that I could still talk in Vent and hear the noise from the WoW game which meant my Graphic Card was screwed, the one I stated previous was my driver failing on me as whoever try to fix my PC said.
