I HAVE FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM> AFTER BROWSING THRU A BUNCH OF OTHER PROBLEMS SIMILAR TO THIS ONE SOMEONE SUGGESTED THAT AN EXEC LOOP OCCURRED SOMEWHERE. AND SINCE I AM A NOOB SCRIPTER I PUT exec autoexec IN MY autoexec2 FILE WHICH LED TO AN INFINITE LOOP OF exec autoexec, exec autoexec2. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP BUT I AM GOOD! YAY!

~ happy iToaster player

yeah, well, worked up till like this summer, idk, might need to upgrade

>> bumpitty bumpitty

hmm, nope, allocated the heapsize to 2 gb of mem to tf2 which should have been more than enough, still no help

tf2 crashes at startup. I'm not sure what to do.

i will try your solution, allocating heap size seems to be a good idea. Steam Support on the other hand, still haven't received a reply.

Thanks! I may have downloaded a mod before that rendered in ultra low textures, but have deleted it; I'm going to mess around with my configs and launch options and see if I can get rid of that setting.

Meanwhile, I've started up TF2 again and monitored the memory usage up to the crash. The thing steadily skyrockets from 40~ mb to 400 mb. Funny thing is, the app I'm using to monitor memory quickly jumped up to 4 GB before jumping back down. At the time of this sentence TF2 has crashed and the application was at around 600~ mb.

2nd Trial -

Upon launching the game, hl2_osx climbs up to 130 mb of usage before "(Not Responding)." Physical memory is at 8 GB and memory used is only at 3.2 GB. TF2 has gone up to 260. And remember, I'm running Steam and Chrome at the same time as TF2, and the memory used is only at around 3.5 GB. TF2 has climbed up to 450 mb. Still not the largest memory hog - but now it is, surpassing kernel_ask at 680~ or so. And it crashes.

3rd Trial -

Launched tf2, climbs up to 3rd place in a matter of seconds, not repsonding. 170 mb. it's climbed to 220, and is slowly climbing at maybe a rate of 20 per 3 seconds. 300 mb, 2nd place on the memory hog list. Climbing still to 353.9 mb. kernel_task is at 673. 400 mb for tf2 now, memory used is 3.6. 480, then 640, and now 660 is tf2, then it reached 683 and crashes. perhaps if it surpasses kernel_task in usage, it's considered too big? there's that large jump from 480 to 660 in 3 seconds, maybe that's what causes the crash?

;D

Yeah, I've restarted the damn thing more times than I can count. Out of memory, huh? So does this mean I need to delete some apps or only run TF2 and nothing else?

>> awkward bump

This has been happening consistently for several weeks now. I've tried verifying cache, deleting huds, switching to dxlevel 80, using the flushconfig, cleaning my custom folder, everything short of reinstall. Yes, I know, I play on a mac toaster.

Here is the error message after I click "report" when it tells me hl2_osx crashed unexpectedly. (I'm not copying and pasting in here cuz I don't want you to read all that, here's a pastebin)

http://pastebin.com/St71A9mH

I use a Macbook Pro 2011. Dunno too much about that, if you need more info please tell me and I'll try to get it for you.

Thanks!

P.S. on another note, I still don't have my PASS Time Participation Beta Pin. Thx, volvo.

I'm currently using the Rayshud textbox (that is, small and in the left upper corner) but I really dislike that extra ugly gray background without any text in it. I have tried editing the width of the BaseChat.res, and then the whole chat just disappears (really annoying, and before you ask, yes, I have done hud_reloadscheme). I just want to restore it to the original width of the default hud. Any help?
This is what my text box looks like:
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1KV61v6CCOGq1PZiDiv8_8gZslcVdx926BTxNYAHaYg0/edit?usp=sharing
Here's my current Basechat.res:

"Resource/UI/BaseChat.res"
{
"HudChat"
{
"ControlName" "EditablePanel"
"fieldName" "HudChat"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"xpos" "3"
"ypos" “25”
"wide" "235"
"tall" "120"
"PaintBackgroundType" “2”
}

ChatInputLine
{
"ControlName" "EditablePanel"
"fieldName" ChatInputLine
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"xpos" "10"
"ypos" "395"
"wide" "185"
"tall" "2"
"font" "Cerbetica10"
"PaintBackgroundType" "0"
}

"ChatFiltersButton"
{
"ControlName" "Button"
"fieldName" "ChatFiltersButton"
"xpos" "150"
"ypos" "2"
"wide" "45"
"tall" "15"
"autoResize" "1"
"pinCorner" "0"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"tabPosition" "0"
"labelText" "#chat_filterbutton"
"textAlignment" "center"
"dulltext" "0"
"brighttext" "0"
"Default" "0"
}

"HudChatHistory"
{
"ControlName" "RichText"
"fieldName" "HudChatHistory"
"xpos" "10"
"ypos" "17"
"wide" "185"
"tall" "400"
"wrap" "1"
"autoResize" "1"
"pinCorner" "1"
"visible" "1"
"enabled" "1"
"labelText" ""
"textAlignment" "south-west"
"font" "Cerbetica10"
"maxchars" "-1"
}
}