my game takes about 2 minutes to start. it takes about 1 minute on the "preparing to launch" box and then takes another minute sometimes more load the game menu. it just gets stuck on the loading screen with the tf2 background. is there anyway to fix this so that my game launches quicker?
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my game takes about 2 minutes to start. it takes about 1 minute on the "preparing to launch" box and then takes another minute sometimes more load the game menu. it just gets stuck on the loading screen with the tf2 background. is there anyway to fix this so that my game launches quicker?
Verify game cache?
Reinstall TF2?
Reinstall Windows?
Just some suggestions. Maybe someone will post better ones.
Verify game cache?
Reinstall TF2?
Reinstall Windows?
Just some suggestions. Maybe someone will post better ones.
Reinstall TF2?
Reinstall Windows?
Just some suggestions. Maybe someone will post better ones.
backup your important TF2 files somewhere safe, such as your
config
HUD (resources and scripts folder)
demos
screenshots, if you want
particles
maps
delete your entire \team fortress 2\ folder. then start your game. it will redownload the necessary files the game requires to run, after you get to the main menu press quit and move your backupped files back in.
what happens is everytime you start/play/join tf2, it's making "trash" files that end up making the games folder pretty large and slows the retrieval of files. i have no idea if this is correct, but when the game launches it could be finding and caching certain files to make them quicker to retrieve in the future (like when you're in a server), and having too many files slows the process down as it's looping through them. no idea if this is correct, just a wild guess, but this method does work for stopping some mid-game stuttering, maybe it will work here.
backup your important TF2 files somewhere safe, such as your
config
HUD (resources and scripts folder)
demos
screenshots, if you want
particles
maps
delete your entire \team fortress 2\ folder. then start your game. it will redownload the necessary files the game requires to run, after you get to the main menu press quit and move your backupped files back in.
what happens is everytime you start/play/join tf2, it's making "trash" files that end up making the games folder pretty large and slows the retrieval of files. i have no idea if this is correct, but when the game launches it [i]could[/i] be finding and caching certain files to make them quicker to retrieve in the future (like when you're in a server), and having too many files slows the process down as it's looping through them. no idea if this is correct, just a wild guess, but this method does work for stopping some mid-game stuttering, maybe it will work here.
config
HUD (resources and scripts folder)
demos
screenshots, if you want
particles
maps
delete your entire \team fortress 2\ folder. then start your game. it will redownload the necessary files the game requires to run, after you get to the main menu press quit and move your backupped files back in.
what happens is everytime you start/play/join tf2, it's making "trash" files that end up making the games folder pretty large and slows the retrieval of files. i have no idea if this is correct, but when the game launches it [i]could[/i] be finding and caching certain files to make them quicker to retrieve in the future (like when you're in a server), and having too many files slows the process down as it's looping through them. no idea if this is correct, just a wild guess, but this method does work for stopping some mid-game stuttering, maybe it will work here.
Nah, that sounds like a major ram issue. Monitor your ram while launching tf2, see if it gets filled, if it does it's because in order for the game to load all the shit it needs to run it's having to read a bunch of stuff then put that stuff in the swap space (hard drive) to free some memory and then load more stuff into ram and repeat until completed.
I play on a 2.4Ghz notebook and long time ago I bought 4gb of ram and tf2 started loading pretty quick, I'm always one of the first to arrive to a server after a map change.
Nah, that sounds like a major ram issue. Monitor your ram while launching tf2, see if it gets filled, if it does it's because in order for the game to load all the shit it needs to run it's having to read a bunch of stuff then put that stuff in the swap space (hard drive) to free some memory and then load more stuff into ram and repeat until completed.
I play on a 2.4Ghz notebook and long time ago I bought 4gb of ram and tf2 started loading pretty quick, I'm always one of the first to arrive to a server after a map change.
I play on a 2.4Ghz notebook and long time ago I bought 4gb of ram and tf2 started loading pretty quick, I'm always one of the first to arrive to a server after a map change.
I'm pretty sure the more configs you have the longer it takes to load. It also depends on your launch options + cpu
I'm pretty sure the more configs you have the longer it takes to load. It also depends on your launch options + cpu
Do what turts said + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccmoToUgEpo
Do what turts said + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccmoToUgEpo
there are ways to make it load quicker but honestly it's not gonna load as fast as it used to
there are ways to make it load quicker but honestly it's not gonna load as fast as it used to
"team fortress 2 is a 2 gig game so it's going pretty quick"
"team fortress 2 is a 2 gig game so it's going pretty quick"
wareya"team fortress 2 is a 2 gig game so it's going pretty quick"
The good ol' days when tf2 wasn't like 10 gigs.
Also thanks to the contributors in this topic! :)
[quote=wareya]"team fortress 2 is a 2 gig game so it's going pretty quick"[/quote]
The good ol' days when tf2 wasn't like 10 gigs.
Also thanks to the contributors in this topic! :)
The good ol' days when tf2 wasn't like 10 gigs.
Also thanks to the contributors in this topic! :)
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