NEED HELP

[Jalkryan]

My game has died.
When ever i join a game once people start moving the game falls apart it seems, i can only see my weapon and odd shapes that are every were. Does anyone know what happen? Also when i start to join a game the text that tells you stats you have done, is all messed up.

 

[WiredTangenT]

check the steam forums for TF2. that's what I did. it might have something to do with your Graphics card or Drivers.

 

[Flippy the Squirrel]

Also, the more specific you can be - including anything you've installed or changed - the more we'll be able to help.

 

[Jalkryan]

I haven't changed anything. I just got up one morning and it wasn't working

 

[Lafinass]

Sounds almost like the memory on your video card is glitching or overheating, do you play any other games so that we can verify if it is this game specifically or a more general issue?

 

[Jalkryan]

My sister plays world of warcraft and its fine. I played warcraft 3 last night also. Ill play half life today and see how it does.

 

[Jalkryan]

OK I just tried half life 2 episode 2 and it did the same thing has team fort.

 

[Lafinass]

Do you have anything more intensive then WoW or WC3? Both of these games use considerably less of your system resources, specifically video resources, then Source games. It's distinctly possible that an issue affecting TF2 wouldn't even be noticed in either of them without it being a specific issue with the game.

 

[Jalkryan]

I can try portal thats about it tho.

 

[Lafinass]

Bah. Same engine sadly.

You might just want to buckle down and dig through the steam forums.

 

[Jalkryan]

Portal didn't work. can anyone tell me how to post a pic of what i'm seeing?

 

[GTI-Steve]

f5 is the default ss button

sounds like a video issue as he said both of those games dont stress to hard
try running 3dbenchmark you can find one online i belive what are the specs of your machine/vid card and memory are mainly what im looking for

do you shutdown at night or leave it on

clean dust out of all of your fans 2 incase your overheating

 

[Jalkryan]

I cleaned all the dust out of my comp and it's still doing it. I took some pictures but my computer is dumb and cant open them. Is there a program i need to Dl to view / post them?

 

[Lafinass]

I don't remember what format the screenshots default to honestly. What is the three letter extension after the '.'?

 

[Joko]

try print screen next to the scroll lock botton

 

[GTI-Steve]

default is targa .tga you can get a converter or bind key jpeg and it will take much smaller jpg screenshots

 

[Jalkryan]

mine are MDMP files

 

[Lafinass]

That's not a screenshot file, that's a mini-dump file created when the program crashed. A screenshot of what's going on would be TGA or JPG most likely.