Whoever is awake when I arrive... Is getting interviewed.

My flight was delayed an hour from Orlando so therefore ill assume ill be landing an hour later as well. Which will be around 11pm central time. Minor setback. The videos will be taken tonight no worries.

t minus, 8 hours and 50 minutes until arrival.

Everyone prepare for the interviews now.

Texas based attendee's, who would like to give me a ride anywhere near the direction of San Antonio from Dallas. If I could get as far as Austin that would be golden too. Anyone coming from that direction?

So for those of you who don't know... or those that do know but forgot... I have been taking tons of videos at the LAN's I attend. I do this because people enjoy seeing a somewhat behind the scenes look at some of the top TF2 players. And generally speaking it's fun putting some people in awkward situations when the camera starts rolling... (ex: YZ50,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoZLJELvawQ

)

SOOOO... my question is... what does everyone want to see? I arrive late Friday night so I may not get a lot of footage that first day/night but I'll be taking videos as soon as I meet the first TF2 player I run into. But I want some ideas as to what everyone is most interested in seeing. I'll be doing something a bit new that I don't usually do which will be a player spotlight where I take a 3-4 minute video of the over the shoulder game play. I'll try to get at least 2 from every team, including my own (having someone else record for me obviously... or maybe not o.O)

Here is a link to my youtube so people can take a look at past videos. I'll be take a lot of quick short videos and interviews like I always do but I wanted to see if there is anything new I should focus on.

https://www.youtube.com/user/shadetf2

TL;DR : I'll be taking videos/vlogs/interviews at LAN, what kind of content does everyone want to see?

@drew... Not that I have noticed but the only other games I've played are Binding of Isaac and Castle Crashers but I have not had the issue in those.

@hooky... Tried running in windowed mode and in fullscreen mode same issue on both. Tried windowed with and without border on too same thing.

@techdude... It has occasionally done that. It doesn't do it every single time I end the process though. Not sure what that would mean since it does not seem to be consistent. However, I would say it does tend to close a majority of the time. And yes I've tried tabbing combos and hitting damn near every button on the keyboard to get it back up.

@java... I'll check everything you mentioned.

@jp... I THINK I've tried this but I can't remember fully so I'll try it out and see if it works again.

Thanks for the help thus far I'll try out everything mentioned and see if it fixes anything. Also...@bot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJdjv7Krpl0&t=4m7s

I will try that next time it occurs and report back.

So I've been having this issue for awhile now but assumed it would eventually go away after changing several settings however it has persisted.

The issue is this: My game will randomly minimize to desktop however it won't close. The steps it goes through are... 1. Freezes temporarily, 2. Flashes to a black screen for a few seconds, 3. Game seems to minimize to desktop, 4. With the TF2 icon still open in the bottom left hand corner, the game is clearly still open as I can hear and everyone can still see me in game moving however I cannot bring my game back up I just see my desktop that is all. My mouse cursor is also missing which means somehow it is still in the game. The way I get out of game is by hitting ESC and typing quit or CTRL+ALT+DEL and closed hl2.exe.

Now I have tried several different things always assuming I would be able to fix it with each change.
1. Removed my old config
2. Switched to DX9
3. Removed all launch options
4. Verified integrity of cache
5. Defrag'd game cache
6. Completely deleted my TF2 folder and started completely fresh

None of these worked.

I also tried this on another steam account and it seemed that the problem was not happening however after awhile it finally started taking place again. However, I've noticed sometimes on differnt steam account the game will occasionally come back up after awhile but it seems hit or miss.

I've tried finding something on google about this and found one thread on steam forums but there was no answers in the thread. Any ideas folks?? I will love you if you can rid me of this issue.

Edit steam thread -
http://forums.steampowered.com/maintenance.html?t=1929343
(towards the bottom)

http://i.imgur.com/u5mJw.jpg

first to guess everything will get a shout out in our first match

Clockwork and brad are here and Dave sent me a text saying "the eagle has landed" so I think he is here lol

Dummy boomer and yz have arrived. I'll try and conduct an interview with Benjamin later today. Clock is at the airport apparently. More vids to come soon.

Where are you tagg? Harb and I are in 335 right now.

Suite 335 hit me up... Watching MTV eating pringles #invitelifestyle

On site videos...
Www.YouTube.com/shadetf2

Posting this from my iPod touch while I sit in the lobby of the hotel waiting for Tyrone to add me to the room reservation.

ya this

http://www.youtube.com/user/shadetf2

pauls videos will be less exciting/less entertaining versions of what i post... so be on the look out