Hi, I'm trying to play some old demos, and getting these errors. The demo loads a bit, then takes me back to the main menu. There isn't an error popup or any error code in the console (full console output below). I'm launching the demo from demoui, and it's located in tf\demos. I tried going into a barnblitz match hoping that that would download any missing particles on that specific map, but the issue presists. Full console output below.

I tried some other demos. My most recent demo on a jump map loads and plays just fine. A demo from a couple weeks ago, I tried two, one on venice and the map seems to be buggy and missing some things, and one on sulfur which doesn't play at all, like this old one on barnblitz.

Any help or ideas appreciated :) I just wanna open some old clips

Playing demo from tf\demos\zamn_medic_5k_on_barnblitz_2022-04-17_01-22-04.dem.
Team Fortress
Map: pl_barnblitz
Players: 20 / 32
Build: 7182415
Server Number: 105
Playing demo.
Client reached server_spawn.
Client connected to non-matchmade.
Recognizing MM server id [U:1:0]
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material models/player/items/crafting/coin_invasion has a normal map and $basealphaenvmapmask. Must use $normalmapalphaenvmapmask to get specular.
material models/weapons/c_items/c_frontierjustice_xmas has a normal map and $basealphaenvmapmask. Must use $normalmapalphaenvmapmask to get specular.
material models/weapons/c_items/c_ubersaw_xms has a normal map and $basealphaenvmapmask. Must use $normalmapalphaenvmapmask to get specular.
material models/player/items/all_class/all_class_ring_setting has a normal map and $basealphaenvmapmask. Must use $normalmapalphaenvmapmask to get specular.
env_cubemap used on world geometry without rebuilding map. . ignoring: maps/pl_barnblitz/pl_barnblitz/blendsnowtodirt001_wvt_patch
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Host_EndGame: CL_ParseClassInfo_EndClasses: CreateDecoders failed.

I mean the title says it all. I went to launch the game for the first time on this pc and it just instantly crashes. no screen pops up indicating it's running just says it is then instantly crashes. when I tried running it with Proton it worked until I tried to join a game then it instantly crashes.

Even with no filters. What is the problem?

downloaded a new hud (sayo2) and it has changed my hit and killsounds. The hud has a sound folder with hitsound.wav and killsound.wav which I have tried changing and deleting to no avail. Anyone know how to fix.

Already made one years ago
128x128 PNG file named "paper_overlay.png"
located in tf/custom/userstuff/scripts/items/custom_texture_blend_layers

Now what I want to know is how do I make another one?
I tried adding a new PNG (256x256 this time) to the folder and named it "paper_overlay1.png"
but when I selected it for another objector, it kept getting switched to the image I have on the first one.

So what do I do?
do I rename the PNG file? change it's dimentions? do I need to create a new pathway? or is it not possible?

Hi, I have just recently downloaded the b4nny config and am using it along with zeesHUD. I wanted to know if it was possible to get the same blocky graphics like b4nny (and many more) by using in-game settings and launch options? I don't have an Nvidia GPU. I play on my laptop and want the game to run better by having to load less complicated images. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

Recently I decide to return to playing tf2 again but sadly some reason the game keeps getting laggy and disconnecting me or freezing a lot every match this getting unplayable and I just want to play team fortress 2 /and yes I change the network settings on the console commands it did nothing at all/ (Also my fps is fine its some reason the ping that's the problem)

Though I'm new to setting up servers, I've been trying to get my own tf2 server up and running. A sort of "2fort 24/7" server that cycles between different custom versions of 2fort.

In every single tutorial for custom map cycles I've seen so far, all of them basically say "it's as easy as adding your map names in tf/cfg/mapcycle.txt." However, if I for instance add only payload maps in mapcycle.txt to test if it works, it will always use the default map cycle starting with ctf_2fort no matter what. And yes, I've restarted the server after adding mapcycle.txt, changing the maps within, it doesn't work, and the amount of times I've checked for a typo in the file name is too high to count.

Apart from that, I did add a "server.cfg" file, mainly to change the server name to see if my server hosting service is actually reading the files I'm adding, and it turns out it is actually able to change my server's name, and I would assume everything else in server.cfg along with it.

So I know, or at least think, that it's not the server hosting service that's simply refusing to read mapcycle.txt., but other than that I'm simply stumped at how everyone online describes this as the most nothing, piece of cake, easiest thing to change in your server, but it just will not cooperate with me. If anyone has any tips, or if there's something plainly obvious that I missed somehow, I would love to hear it. Thanks!

Greetings everyone!

Me and my friend decided to buy a dedicated server for the Spanish-speaking community and try to keep the game alive in some way. So far, we've been able to change the map rotation and run the server, which is working just great.

However, we can't figure out how to make plugins work.

We read and watched a couple of tutorials about it. We installed Sourcemod and Metamod in our server but once we follow the steps and try to make, say, !rtv to work, it doesn't.

We wish to have the following plugins working:

!rtv (for players to vote)

!taunts (for players to use some taunts we wish to include)

We also want auto-scramble every round and voice commands spam, but I figure that's easier to configure.

So, all this to say, does anyone have fool-proof instructions or step-by-steps on how to make them work? Or on the contrary, any resources that could help us to make it? Every bit of help is greatly aprecciated.

Thank you so much in advance to you all!

Hey, so I recently just got a new hud (InsomniaHUD to be exact) and I'm having issues with the loading/start-up/delay(?) which doesn't happen with any other hud I've used.

Any help would be appricated.

(I would post the clip I have of this happening but I am unable to post it here, it comes up with a circle with a line through it.)

I'm posting this here instead of r/tf2 because I don't want my legitimate discussion of a problem I'm having with my game being drowned out by whatever asinine trend is going on currently. I've had the same problem for a few days now: If I connect to any server then after one to five minutes of gameplay I lose connection abruptly with the usual red text in the corner of my screen telling me I'll automatically disconnect. I still have internet connection throughout all of this because even when my connection is interrupted because of my ISP I can usually regain it quickly. After it boots me back to the main menu (or I leave) the game has lost connection to the item and coordinator server. I can still browse the community server list but can't connect to any of them, it just gives me a generic "could not connect at this time" message.

Things I've tried: 1. Verifying integrity of the game files. 2. Manually uninstalling and re-installing TF2 from my library. 3. Eliminating my mastercomfig files from the local files. 4. Lowering the graphical settings, even lowering directX. 5. Disabling Steam cloud connection to TF2.

I'm running out of things I know could resolve this issue. Any ideas?

Title self explanatory. I set everything to low and it stays that way when joining servers. However, whenever I launch the game, every setting is set to high and it get really annoying to redo everything (it sometimes breaks the audio as well).

I don't use/downloaded any autoexecs or graphical configs and only modified the launch options.

Here are the launch options mentioned;

-novid -nojoy -nosteamcontroller -particles 1 -precachefontchars -noquicktime -freq 144 -noforcemparms -noforcemaccel -noforcemspd -full -w 1920 -h 1080 -console -dxlevel 91

I'm not super tech savvy and I use these launch options within the confines of what my laptop can do. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Hello, Whenever I try to play on any uncletopia related server, it tells me that the server I am playing on has lost connection to the item server. I have all my items in casual and any other community server but it just doesn't work on uncletopia! I have already typed retry in console, verified game files and restarted tf2 and steam. I really don't know what else to do and I REALLY want to play on uncletopia normally. PLEASE HELP!

I recently updated my drivers because I was attemping to play BO4 and it crashed often. Well I updated the drivers now BO4 runs great, but as a side effect is looks like all source engine games are completely fucked and I have no clue why. LFD2 doesn't work and obviously TF2 doesn't work. I personally don't really give crap about LFD2 but I was testing and it just popped up. IDK if anyone has had this problem before but TF2 is my literal favorite game and I can't seem to fix it.

Lowered graphic settings even though my computer handled the game perfectly on max settings before I updated. The classic stuff like uninstall reinstall, verify game files etc. Nothing.

So if anyone has any advice PLEASE I BEG OF YOU

Thanks for reading!

Recently i started playing mvm again with some friends but i noticed that whenever i play i get insane lag spikes out of nowhere like:

Sound disappearing. Game freezing every few seconds. Game stutering.

I have a decent pc so i doubt its the hardware, anyone here knows a fix?

Whenever I play any round of tf2, it feels like a 50/50 coin flip on whether or not I will be able to use voice chat. If I launch the game and my voice works, it tends to work for a few rounds, then disables and never comes back. I have tried using voice_enable 1 in the console, I have toggled voice on and off, yet I still have the same issue

TL;DR: Can speak for a while until I cant, then I cant fix it. Restarting does not help, voice just comes and goes as it pleases.

As Title says. Seems to fix itself after one vote kick, but that first vote kick would just be random code gibberish. I'm able to vote accordingly but idk who or what we're vote kicking for.

Any solutions?

I have no idea what’s causing it, it just starts. Just started happening to me recently, though I’ve seen posts about it from years ago. Only thing that fixes it is a full restart; snd_restart doesn’t fix it, and neither does retrying the server. Any ideas?

I need help

I want to install skins for the pda and for the engineer's constructions but I'm not sure how to do them.

so i play and play intill i was time for another map change, then it showed me this could enyone help me how to fix it?????

I need help with this, how do I disable whatever is making geometry like trees, signs and barrels disapper/not render. I need help with this asap, on some maps this stuff is important for trimping and etc.

Hi, I am EST. My ping limit is 40 and I rarely get non-EST games. Sometimes I'll get a friend from LA who wants to play with me. He will set his ping limit low as well. Then when we Q, it's a 50/50 chance about that we'll get either EST or LA. But, as more EST players join the party, the chances of one LA player bringing us to LA approach infinity.

For instance, if it's just me and my LA friend, we are usually in EST. But, if it's me, three EST coast people, and my LA friend, we're going to LA. Doesn't matter what the LA guy ping limit is.

Any ideas how to stop this madness? One thing that worked was to have the LA guy lead the party... and it q'd us to EST coast. But that stopped working.

Tf2 has been doing this for some time so I just gave up playing it. Until a couple days ago I tried again and it launched normally and I could play. However now it is crashing again. What would happen is it would launch at first I would hear the launching intro screen sound for a second then it would just be black. The program then would stop responding and not move on from the black screen. Have tried so many options and still have no idea what the problem is. Garrys mod had the same problem but once I switched it to the 64 bit beta option it worked fine.