Windows 11
CPU: 7700X
GPU: 1070Ti
RAM: 32GB 5400MHz
Resolution 1440p
Config: Very similar config to mastercoms high preset
Dx9
Benchmark1.dem

I've recently been dabbling with customizing tf2 particles but I just can't seem to make it work.

I'm doing all the preloading stuff, set the various console commands etc but it just doesn't work when I join a server with sv_pure 2.
I know that there was a update two months ago. where people suspected that that might break particle preloading but someone in this thread still says that it's working: https://www.teamfortress.tv/62242/is-it-possible-to-disable-damage-particles
Also tried to just overwrite the textures of particles but it does not seem to work either.
Does anyone still have some particle modifications that still work?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1foGyHCXsasMVFx6rFtstZ124GSofybmS?usp=sharing

Prolly a win 11 issue. There might be a way to fix this in some weird explorer settings but as a workaround you could temporarily create a symbolic link.
So open up the command prompt and you can use:

This basically creates a "fake folder" which when navigating you can use like a normal folder and when opening it it should have the contents of your tf2 install. (One can safely delete it afterwards as it's just a link to the real folder)
You can read up more about the command if you're curious somewhere online.
Hope this helps :)

There shouldn't be any downside to using a higher picmip setting on modern systems.

I'm not that experienced with memtest and related things so this is all just an educated guess:

Since all the errors occur on the exact same address and all the errors are just "bitflips" (e.g the value 00200000 is just one bit flip off 00000000; surprisingly all the bitflips occur on exactly the same bit), I'd guess it's a ram issue.
That being said I'm not entirely sure if that would bring down your whole system (depends on if your OS is using that address for something critical). Definitely do what Rockz said it is very likely just one stick of RAM acting up since it's the same address each time.

But I'd also recommend booting up Windows' Event Viewer and look for the most recent crash. It could state something interesting or it might just say something like "unexpected shutdown" definitely worth a shot though :)

Hey there!
Guy that spent way to much time trying to recreate the logs.tf parser as closely as possible here:

"Average time before healing" most definitely corresponds to the event "first_heal_after_spawn".
All it does is just save all the times logged by that in a list and average it out at the end.

The reason it takes 20.1s before the event gets logged is because of the decision made by F2 (who wrote the medicstats SM plugin) which is to wait at least 20 seconds from when the last round ended before saying that the medic "spawned".
You can see the relevant lines related to logging the event "first_heal_after_spawn" here and the code where it sets the "MedicInitialHealSpawnTime" here.
Hope that clears up all the confusion around it :)

I think what's really important to realize that there's people who can't get the vaccine because of underlying medical conditions (e.g see this). If they also fall in the risk group (which they most likely do) they basically don't really have any options and rely on others to get vaccinated to reduce their chance of dying.
I think a lot of people are aware that this is an issue facing a lot of younger children due to the anti-vacs "movement", (there's loads of information out there if one want's to read up on it), and since COVID most likely won't "vanish" in the next couple of years (if ever) this will be an issue facing a lot of people in the future as well as currently.

Also I'm not sure if it was said but like you also mentioned there are still death cases among people who have been vaccinated but you can further reduce these cases simply by more people getting vaccinated and also wearing masks and whatnot.

In general: getting vaccinated (or wearing a mask) isn't only about protecting yourself but also very much about protecting others.

I pretty much feel like badlands isn't played anymore because we started to introduce a pro version and inevitably split the community due to the fact that some preferred the shorter last cap time while others liked the longer one.

Yet another example of "given tf2 players options is a bad idea"...

To all the people asking about why their name is weird:
Afaik arcade is using my api to get player names (from demoticks.tf) and it gets the player names in the following order:
etf2l, ozfortress and then logs.tf. Rgl killed their api a while ago and ugc never had one to begin with and was giving me some issues.
I do have a solution for them (which isn't online rn) so if arcade want's to he could just rerun the name fetching and it should be a lot more accurate.
Edit: rgl uses cloudflare protection stuff so there isn't a easy way to request things automatically via the website without some more complicated workarounds

This I think is really important. Although I wouldn't say don't listen to a random content creator but instead: "Don't listen to just one individual".E.g. just because someone has played comp tf2 for many years and is playing prem/invite now doesn't mean that their opinion reflects the entire tf2 comp community.
Best case scenario in my opinion would be to either let the community vote (which requires some good voting options in the first place) or to just draft a bunch of tf2 players from different divisions/continents and ask them/discuss with them what they'd want.
Since I'm pretty certain neither of those things are going to happen I think the easiest thing for them to do would just be to be transparent on what they are trying to implement and then listen to community feedback and make changes but only if they absolutely feel like they must (sometimes I feel like the tf2 community rebels against certain ideas/implementations only to later enjoy them).

I don't want to discourage you in any way of creating your own way of finding events for fragmovies but I do want to point out that there's demoticks.tf.
I'm currently in the work of rewriting a lot of the code but it should soon be open source as well (the parser is already). And I'd love to replace the beta "demo file selection" I currently have with this.
I think the idea of creating some sort of tool to make it easier to find mistakes in teamfights etc. would be very cool but I think it's very hard to find those just via the logfiles. I think the demo viewer from demos.tf is great for this though.
Anyway best of luck to you!

Out of personal interest which ones would that be? My current router has been acting up recently and I'm looking into replacing it...
EDIT: For anyone who cares I asked Arie personally and this is what he said:
For speeds below 200Mbit, Ubiquiti ER-X (no wifi, stock firmware)
For speeds 200-700Mbit, Linksys WRT32X flashed with OpenWRT
And the reason for the differentiation:

Didn't know about the mega archive that's dope!
I'll download the files today and will post the results in one or two days! Thanks a lot!
Downloading the last 500k logs should be faster with my internal stuff I've setup for demoticks.tf so I'll use that instead.
Edit: Current ETA to download the last 500k logs: ~4 hours I'll create a proper stats page soon for demoticks.tf should hopefully be done by the end of the week.
Edit2: Saw waldos post but just in case anyone cares here's a basic overview for the data for the last 2400k logs

Based on the current data on demoticks.tf :
Logs in the DB: 25k of which ~5k are duplicates
That leaves 14957 6s logs.
Blue wins 6482/14957 (43%) of the time and red does so 6943/14957 (46%) of the time.
I know that this doesn't even come close to the 2.8 million logs on logs.tf but it might be a decent approximation (at least for more recent matches)
Pretty sure the guy who hosts trends.tf could easily give you a better approximation.
I feel like looking at ALL logs from logs.tf is a bad idea since from my experience you can easily ddos the site when requesting too much data.
I'm considering adding more logs to the DB but I'd at most get the last 1 million logs or so. If that would satisfy your desire of finding out which team wins more on average let me know! (I'd publish more stats for maps etc. as well)