Team Fortress 2 Issues

[rct2guy]

I seem to be having issues with Team Fortress 2 on Windows 7. I tried a lot of things, and none of them worked.

It seems that I can run TF2 just fine. However, when I actually connect to a server and get ready to play a game, it freezes a few seconds after connecting. Sometimes, I'm able to choose my class and get into the actual game, other times I can't get past the team selection screen. I eventually have to end the process.

Any ideas as to why this happens? Right now, my only way around it is to dual-boot with Windows XP, and run TF2 off of that, but that takes up a lot of hard drive space and it's annoying having to reboot just to play a game.

 

[Ixolite]

What graphics drivers are you using? I had a lot of problems with 19x.xx series, running 185.xx atm and everything works fine so far.

 

[Gornot]

Did you allow it to access the internet through Windows Firewall (or any other firewall you may have)?

 

[rct2guy]

Ixolite, I have no idea what that means. Is that the build number? [/noob]

Sopolias Falst, I'm pretty sure I did. I'll back and check, though.

 

[Ensi]

Strange, it works flawless over here.

It's probably a driver issue. What Ixolite means is that rolling back to a previous graphics card driver sometimes solves problems.

 

[rct2guy]

Ah, I see. How do I go about doing that? (In Windows 7, of course)

 

[Ensi]

Ah, I see. How do I go about doing that? (In Windows 7, of course)

It'll only work if you previously had old drivers installed.

-Press Windows button
-Type in "device manager"
-Hit enter
-Expand "Display adapters"
-Then right click your card, properties, driver, rollback.

If someone else could help you how to get old drivers to test it would be great.

 

[rct2guy]

I just clicked on the "Rollback Drivers" button, and it worked, even though I didn't have any older drivers installed previously. Thanks so much for your help!