On 18/01/2013 21:22, Essay Tew Phaun wrote:
I just think it's pathetic that you can't even tell anymore what is at
fault.Is it the clients? Is it the servers? Who knows.
You can tell whether it's a server that's crashing or a client that's
crashing.
So it's not really relevant for this thread.
You could have found out the cause of your issue in the other thread too
had you
wanted to.
The way to do it is to eliminate things. So, for example, is it a
specific map? How to find out? Try different maps. Is it the client or
the server? Run the game without a server (i.e a listen server) then if
your problem happens, it happens on that one computer. Or try different
servers. If you can, try different computers, renaming your config so it
uses the defaults etc etc.
For client things you have lots to try, different drivers, configs and
so on.
Read Sherlock Holmes. Once you've eliminated stuff it can't be, you get
left with what it must be. You can then make some meaningful noises that
would help someone recreate it if you're sure it's a bug in the game.
But, if it's the client I would say use a different group. Why?
1. Because no one here knows anything special to help you. The group
doesn't contain any existing threads that will help you either.
2. People are more likely to moan about this group being for server issues
3. If you find a group you may find people with the same problem and
people without a problem at all. Which will help you spot patterns.
4. If it's the client you need to post machine specs and driver versions
and try different ones and so on and so on.
In a different group with lots of people that play TF2 someone will say
"I have a C2D E8400 and a Pomegranate 5462 high overhead cam fuel
injected speedy Mark 5 Pan European Hogwash PCIe series graphics card
and I use windows 7 and the game runs fine for me" - so you can
eliminate things that just won't get eliminated if you try to solve the
client problem by posting here.
Perhaps then you will find something that Valve have broken (like this
thread suggests is happening elsewhere) but, given the symptoms you
described a while back unless you have some esoteric hardware I'd say
the problem is most likely not the game. But I'll happily be proven wrong.
--
Dan
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