I don't think status ID screeens have /ever/ worked for me. Win7 or linux. Rayshud, m0rehud, default hud. The best guess I've ever been able to come up with is my monitor resolution is too low, and one admin said "well it works on 1080p and pretty much everyone has that now".

I'll just get my teammates to take ETF2L match status screenshots from now on :)

Perfect!

edit: Arse! No linux/mac support.

I just pressed print screen on the desktop to test what you're saying, and it's a 1920x1080 image. I don't need to use the steam screen shot feature.

Unless TF2 litterally cannot output higher than 1360x768, even on higher resolution monitors, there's no reason why, with enough software trickery, you shouldn't be able to get a program to output a large resolution that the OS is telling it is available.

I suspect TF2 somehow knows I'm still using 1360x768 output. It's doing the thing where mouse input/cursor location on the screen is not lined up with where tf2 thinks buttons are being clicked, suggesting X is telling TF2 "the cursor is here on the virtual screen" then TF2 is translating that input to where it's outputting those pixels on the screen to.

I want to take a high resolution screenshot in TF2,

So far I have managed to find this command, which does what you think it does, gives me a 1920x1080 resolution screen, then scales each image down to 1360x768 for output to my monitor.

xrandr --output DVI-I-0 --mode 1360x768_75.00 --scale-from 1920x1080

However, TF2 is stubbornly sticking to 1360x768, despite these launch options.

-novid -noipx -nojoy -sw -noborder -w 1920 -h 1080

I heard about TF2lobby and got excited so played a game on cp_fastlane as a medic back in spring 2010. It was a shit experience but it took me a few more games to find and make some friends to play with.

Time to get an USB/external DAC thingumy \o/

And one that supports linux too.

Edit: Thanks btw. "My hardware is super cheap and fucked" (and apparently because it's ASUS?) was the only conclusion I could come up with.

No, and as previously mentioned, it extends beyond TF2 to all source (and apparently only source) games.

As a friend of mine once put it, "stay stange, source engine". :(

I just opened up CS:S, L4D2, HL2, and Gmod, some with and without opening vids. They all had a screech, and they all seemed to have their own screech, which is fucking weird. So it seems it's source games.

Edit: High/Low audio quality in-game settings makes no difference.

Edit: It doesn't go away when I change in-game volume (in the options menu) to 0. It does go away in the freeze-moment between moving from the main menu to a loading screen,

Edit: What the fuck. Muting it from outside the game, using cinnamon's audio controller, doesn't make the screech go away, Yet the in-game command snd_restart makes it pause for a moment.

??????

Edit: Muted my whole system, no output audio from any applications. Screech still comes back when I tab back into TF2.

Edit: That goes for all source games. The screech (their own special snowflake screech) does not die when the whole PC is muted.

Edit: I've unplugged the SATA and power cabled connected to the HDD. Only the SSD left plugged in. I also removed the mobo-buzzer. Still there. I am fast running out of ideas, and I don't really want to rock up a linux chat room and ask how much damage I could do by live unplugging the SSD.

OK so none of that helped, I litterally plugged everything but headphones, still heard it, unplugged headphones, headphones go dead (obviously), plugged them in the back, it didn't come back. Plugged everything back in, didn't come back. Plugged headphones back in the front, came back immediately. Tabbed out, goes silence, back to TF2 menu, turns back on. So I've learnt that much, it's definitely a TF2 (or at least a software trigger) and only on the front output port.

I removed all sound files from my tf folder. No change. It's not any sound file. It's a quiet, passive screech, like how your old CRT made a high pitched scree when it was on. Except this makes less sense.

It's an ASUS P8H61-MX R2.0 (integrated sound). I run linux so I don't think poking around "driver settings" will be particularly useful or easy.

Edit:

!!!

It's hard to notice, but for like 0.2 seconds, the sounds stops.