My graphics card is a Geforce 6600 and I can still run TF2 no problems.
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And you two are unaware 6600 and 8600 are better than 9400? Not to mention all 3 being horribly obsolete about in every category?
Seriously, stop using archaeological digs from last century, today card dozen times more powerful costs pennies.
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You guys are a good help....
Try removing steam cloud from tf2 then uninstall and reinstall making sure that steam cloud is off..
Worked for a few people..its the settings stored on the cloud.not working with all the new updates
Hope this helps you
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what games can you play well on your computer, if we can find out what you can do than maybe their will be a clue on why you cant play tf2
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i'd reinstall tf2, i never updated my graphics driver for my 9800 gt, usually when you do updates older games don't work as well but newer games work better
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There is an utility that helps to uninstall the video driver for a clean installation. Did you try it? Then just install the old video driver, you can find it at the Nvidia website, archive download section.
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If I'm not wrong, you don't want rollback to a previous video driver version and you already have verified that would fix the problem, right? So you can be almost sure it's actually a driver bug or a Team Fortress 2 (or Source related) bug. What you should do is to find the instructions to filing a bug report.
Can you post a screenshot of the crash?
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I spend months in talking to both the TF2 and Nvidia support (as I said already). Yes, I can post a screenshot, but I am using Bulgarian translation on my Windows, so I don't see how it can help. The exact error is: "hl2.exe has stopped working" and there is a green bar at the bottom with message Windows is checking for solutions to this problem.
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They don't help until they think that isn't a their own fault. It's hard and even I don't believe it, but if you installed the newer driver and TF2 was crashing, then installed the older driver and it was working correctly, and finally installed again the newer one as you like the performance gains, I can see only a few of possibilities:
Latest drivers aren't always the best driver for old graphic chipsets, try to find a good version for your system. You can try more different driver versions, if version X was working and X+10 not, try X+4 and X+8 versions... Then keep trying with NVidia support, including this information.
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Is that with the FPS unthrottled? What are the temperatures like, I'm inclined to say it's the video card throttling itself to death from the heat.
Run HWMonitor or CPU-z the next time you load it up, or use nvidia's built-in monitor (I think they have one) if you haven't already.
A clean install of the drivers never hurts, either.
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Source and TF2 have been getting increasingly buggy over the last 2 years, before TF2 would start in 5 seconds, now it starts in 5 seconds then when I get to the menu I hear the in-game start-up music looping endlessly for 15 seconds (like a broken record). I wish valve didn't go crazy with their updates since many of the updates don't do jack for the game instead they increase the amount of bugs.
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Hello! Really long time ago (like 2 years ago) I was playing TF2 a lot. Then I updated my video card drivers and the game never worked again. At every start it works for 3-4 seconds and then "HL2 stopped responding" error appears. Back then I spent more then 4 months in talking to both Steam and Nvidia support, also made a topic in the official forums, but without any result (they both were blaming the other side). I gave up untill 2-3 days ago wgen I noticed that there is a new driver update for my video card and decided to try again. This time the whole screen was flickering, but only on the main menu. It self fixed somehow, but after I applied some changes to the settings (I think only changed the resolution) it crashed again with the same error. I am really desperate and hope that somebody can help me with any advice!
This is my PC specs if they matter:
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU: AMD AthlonX2 @2.00GHz
Video: Nvidia GeForce 9400M 256MB
RAM: 4GB DDR2 333MHz
Here is what I tried so far:
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