what do you mean? crashing, or do stickies feel off again?

What? I was able to open it with GCFScape just fine. I had trouble decompiling it though, it crashes Hammer.
edit: nevermind false alarm, I see what you mean, it opens but you can't extract files correctly

decompiling with bspsource with the "extract embedded files" flag causes bspsource to throw errors and stop extracting embedded files, too

valve y u do dis

koth

at least in arena you need to be somewhat mindful of attack routes and spawn rooms

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wisdom_of_the_ancients.png

Also crashing, just trying to join an MvM server (coal town expert). Verifying to see if that fixes it. Reverting to stock HUD didn't fix it.

EDIT: Verifying yielded one file that needed to be updated, and that fixed it.

anyone manage to get these maps loading in SFM? all four of them do nothing and then crash SFM if you try loading them a second time. already tried unpacking all of the new content from TF2's .vpks and throwing them into the SourceFilmmaker/game/tf folder, didn't do anything. recompile?

there are no contracts this time

disregard everything i posted above, after doing a thorough maps * check it turns out I only got half the update. Some files updated but others didn't (sound vpks were updated but textures weren't, etc), and Steam thought I was up to date. Restarted steam and it's downloading the full update now.

Working on it, but it looks like most of the issues with it are actually valve-related

edit: as far as I can see it's not even minorly broken, so unless someone sees something big that I missed I'm not going to stress over an update for it

what exactly did you do to fix the store icons? I looked at your commit but nothing there actually has anything to do with the store.

edit: looks to me like it's a schema issue, not a hud issue. old icons work fine.

new item names seem to be messed up - translations issues? is this something we need to fix or is it on valve's end?

geforce experience is honestly really solid

like it's a resource hog if it's sitting in the background, but when it comes to optimizing game settings, it works wonders, especially on the technical side. it's really a testament to how amazing the driver developers over at nvidia are. they literally have to learn the syntax and commands/variables for every game they want to add to geforce experience, and then write up syntax to allow you to edit those settings between valid values on the fly, and THEN they keep an index of optimal performance combinations for every single GPU combination they support.

it's honestly remarkable work, and no matter which manufacturer you prefer, these devs deserve some praise.

Sorry, I was under the impression that the XL2420Z replaced the XL2411Z and I also incorrectly recalled color comparisons that rated the XL2420Z better.

I think I actually got the XL2411Z and XL2411T mixed up in my head. My bad.

The XL2xxxT uses a PWM backlight and the Z series doesn't? Isn't it the other way around? I thought the PWM backlight is a requirement for the whole motion blur reduction (LightBoost) feature that the Z series includes but the T series doesn't. I might be wrong on this though, there isn't all that much documentation on the technical aspects of LightBoost.

I didn't say the XL2411Z was a bad choice, just that it's a fair bit older (2-3 yrs now) and based on older tech. Its color performance is a fair bit worse.

And for the record I went with a 620W PSU because I also upgraded to a mobo that supports CFX, so he has that option in the future.

http://i.imgur.com/xxDl1mx.png

as for cases, here are a couple of my go-tos, pick what you like:
Cooler Master N400
Antec 1100V2
Antec 900
Fractal Design Define R4
Silverstone Temjin TJ08B-E

It's a little outdated, but it's certainly not a bad monitor. That's about the price range that any 144Hz panel will net you nowadays.
I'd take a look into one of these:
ASUS VG248QE
BenQ XL2420Z

or with a budget like this, he might as well just get both an SSD and a 1TB HDD