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Ok sad news here guys. I had 186 points in a match that had only been going for 32 minutes and accidentally ALT+TAB'ed out of the game! Anytime I do that, the game freezes and I'm screwed. My questions are as follows:

  1. Does any of what I did count towards anything?
  2. Do my achievements still get counted?
  3. Is there anyway to lock any keys that might take you out of the game (windows key, alt+tab, etc)?
  4. How do I take screenshots?

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ViZioN

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Ok sad news here guys. I had 186 points in a match that had only been going for 32 minutes and accidentally ALT+TAB'ed out of the game! Anytime I do that, the game freezes and I'm screwed. My questions are as follows:

  1. Does any of what I did count towards anything?
  2. Do my achievements still get counted?
  3. Is there anyway to lock any keys that might take you out of the game (windows key, alt+tab, etc)?
  4. How do I take screenshots?

I think your achievements will still get counted unless it was a teleporter record or something.

Depending on your keyboard, the software can sometimes disable certain keys. For example the Logitech software can disable the windows key to prevent it kicking you out of full screen. As another workaround you could run TF2 in windowed mode. I'm thinking about switching mine to that too as now that Valve have made some ALT+TAB 'fixes', if I TAB out, I can't TAB back into TF2. Annoying to say the least!

For screenshots, bind 'jpeg' to a key of your choosing. I.e

bind "f12" "jpeg"

The screenshots are placed in your tf folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\USERNAME\team fortress 2\tf)

Edit: Just found this. And the example the guy uses is even got TF2.

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Lewism

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1. Probably yes

2. Yes, there are counted each time you die or on any event they are triggered.

3. The best way is the run TF2 in windowed mode. You lose some fps but it doesn't crash or lag when you alt-tab.

In the properties of TF2, add this: -novid -windowed -noborder (novid removes the useless video when you start the game)

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4. Press F5 and there are stored in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\<Steam Username>\team fortress 2\tf\screenshots

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Rodrigo

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So guys, I was planning on buying this game next weekend. Currently I'm playing World of Warcraft but before playing WoW I used to play Quake 3 a lot. I've been looking for a FPS for a long time and apparently TF2 is quite popular right now. Could this be a right choice for me?

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Rodrigo

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I got it done a few minutes ago, had to pause several times but at the end I was getting 600kb/s (nice speed, going to download alien swarm too).

I can't play right now because I am not at home and I'm using my laptop which I suppose won't be able to handle the game. Just a question, how does the backup tool works? I was thinking in using it to backup the TF2 files and then copy them to my home computer, would that work?

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joker999

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I got it done a few minutes ago, had to pause several times but at the end I was getting 600kb/s (nice speed, going to download alien swarm too).

I can't play right now because I am not at home and I'm using my laptop which I suppose won't be able to handle the game. Just a question, how does the backup tool works? I was thinking in using it to backup the TF2 files and then copy them to my home computer, would that work?

Backup will make a files with steam.exe, its like ISO (if mac, i think its will make a .dmg)

Its will ask you where to put, CD? DVD? Hard-drive?

Yes will work :)

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Sikh

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I just started playing TF2 even thou ive owned it for 2 years? now lol.

But I am loving it SO much once you get into it, one thing I dont understand, I was getting random FPS lag.

my system is MORE then capable. I went ahead and updated drivers, uninstalled game COMPLETELY. Deleted folder and everything after uninstalling it thru steam(delete local content). Once I did this, re downloaded all of TF2 agian.

Today, I was playing fine for an hour, and all of a sudden FPS lag. It goes from smooth to lag smooth lag lag lag smooth lag.

So like it'll say "DOMINAT.....ing" or "Swooo.......ssssh" when I die and camera zooms in or etc. But regardless it does "Hiccups".

I got tired of it, minimized and everything looked fine, Game is only using a gig at most and 28% cpu.

I then decided to Set Affinity to only 2 cores, and the first 2 cores at that, THE LAG STOPPED.

Played another 2 hours WITHOUT LAG.

So wtf can be the issue?

System Specs

AMD Phenom 2 x4 940 BE

8gigs Corsair XMS2 RAM

Nvidia 260gtx 216 GPU

Everything is fine and NO OTHER GAMES LAG, ive been playing BC2 a LOT and GTA 4 a lot recently and nothing> no spikes no nothing.

Get into TF2, first 2 days were fine, then everyday random lag, that does not stop. And I end up leaving or quitting the game. But If i leave the game and reioin, the lag goes away, but randomly will come back later.

Happens randomly on all different servers ive tried. I went server hopping and only happened totally at random.

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Denis W. Veteran

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Couple of suggestions you can try:

- Try downloading this file.

steamapps.zip

Quit Steam, extract the file's contents to Steam\steamapps and run Defrag.bat. This defrags all the GCFs in the steamapps folder. (Then run a system defragger of your choice.)

- Follow the instructions in this thread. This will disable network throttling. Also ensure QoS/WMM is disabled in your router.

- Try some of these commands to put into autoexec.cfg. They're for HL2 but they may work for TF2. In particular, the 'forcepreload' and the sound-related tweaks are ones you should look at.

- This should not be an issue, but you could try excluding the Steam folder from your antivirus if all else fails.

Disabling multicore isn't really an option for me; the FPS counter tanks if I do that.

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ViZioN

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I was about to post asking if anyone else is suffering from missing weapons / metal / hats, but I see lots of others are experiencing it too. I've 'found' them again as drops twice now but then they disappear again. As long as they don't disappear for good I don't mind too much :p

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Nagisan

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I was about to post asking if anyone else is suffering from missing weapons / metal / hats, but I see lots of others are experiencing it too. I've 'found' them again as drops twice now but then they disappear again. As long as they don't disappear for good I don't mind too much :p

Someone emailed Robin about that and he said they were messing around with the backend. He said they are also working on an update that will prevent things such as that from happening again the next time they decide to poke the backend with sticks.

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