that's actually a good protip, use ubuntu linux live cd, work on it for like a day (i bet you won't play tf2 on it but you surely can use browser and stuff and see if the problem persists)
you don't have to install linux on your drive, it's enough if you have it on your pendrive

if you don't have a usb stick, get it it's very cheap and i bet it's worth taking for your case
8/16 GB is defo enough

cu@

1500 dpi
1 in-game
raw input enabled

https://i.imgur.com/aVa3N4s.png
btw great hud

dw about getting downscored, most people don't know what these people have done for the tf2 community

if i didn't care about u, i wouldn't help with the setup

i think we can all agree that there is an individual called AimIsADick decreasing a general quality of the posts and comments

obviously

now for real, we really want to push some features until it will be up for the eu, american pickups are a sort of a test before we launch it in the eu

we are working on it

also yep it's all true, it's because we really care about how it's gonna be accepted by the EU community and we want to let the site be a bit more functional before it gets available here

honestly i'd love to play some eu hl pugs but they're also waiting because of that

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luckily we are not in the 90's but in 2021 so you don't really have to install drivers for the monitor in order to make it work, but i guess you have to have drivers for the graphics card specifically in order to let it work in 144hz>=

uhhh looks like i'm late on the party but i think way easier solution to get competitive servers on your host would be using docker containers made by mały:
https://github.com/melkortf/tf2-servers

everything is prebuilt already and all you need to do is to pass variables like what ports do you want to have, your api for logs.tf/demos.tf, passwords etc, example:
https://docs.tf2pickup.org/docs/site-components-deployment#gameserver_1env

very claustrophobic gamer set

Rocket_Chapa (not mine but funny)

maybe someday there will be american bball pugs son

https://clips.twitch.tv/TenuousSmokyKleeShadyLulu-FzkoijtPXecc1IqW