Team Fortress 2

[Hoffer]

I play on a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with the 8600M GT video card. I installed the 163.75 driver, but the game randomly locks up and crashes. Anyone have any driver suggestions for team fortress 2?

[gulu]

I play on a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with the 8600M GT video card. I installed the 163.75 driver, but the game randomly locks up and crashes. Anyone have any driver suggestions for team fortress 2?

I have the same issue as well. And regarding drivers, I have tried switching back to the 163.44 drivers but that didn't seem to solve the lockups.

[Guest mentalcrisis00]

I'm having similar trouble with TF2, game runs well for 15 to 30 minutes then it either goes black screen and recovers or gives me a fragmentation like in the image below.

I've used 158.16, 162.18, and 165.01 to no avail. I'm running:

Dell Vostro 1500

1.2GHZ intel core 2 duo

2GB crucial ram

8600M gt

suggestions?

[Hoffer]

I'm having similar trouble with TF2, game runs well for 15 to 30 minutes then it either goes black screen and recovers or gives me a fragmentation like in the image below.

I've used 158.16, 162.18, and 165.01 to no avail. I'm running:

Dell Vostro 1500

1.2GHZ intel core 2 duo

2GB crucial ram

8600M gt

suggestions?

The messed up colors also happen to me sometimes. I just switched to the 163.69 driver. Played for a couple hours yesterday without any crashes, but that could just be good luck. I'll play more today and see if I crash at all.

[Hoffer]

The messed up colors also happen to me sometimes. I just switched to the 163.69 driver. Played for a couple hours yesterday without any crashes, but that could just be good luck. I'll play more today and see if I crash at all.

So it seems 163.69 doesn't work either. Game crashed and got error message: "Failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVertexBuffer"

[Guest Guest]

I have the same computer as the first guy and the same problem... not good.

[mau2112]

Hello here,

I just got TF2 also, but I'm running an M50 Dell, w/ a Quadro4 500 GoGL.

I', terribly new regarding drivers and I have no idea what to do. I'm getting an error that says: DirectX 8.0 requiered.

I have 9.0c

Help!

[Guest 20100]

Same problem here too with a 8600m gt.

And it really seems random : sometimes I can play a few hours, others just a few minutes before it happens.

[Guest Guest]

Hello here,

I just got TF2 also, but I'm running an M50 Dell, w/ a Quadro4 500 GoGL.

I', terribly new regarding drivers and I have no idea what to do. I'm getting an error that says: DirectX 8.0 requiered.

I have 9.0c

Help!

My understanding of it is that you need a DirectX8.0 graphics card to play any of the games of the Orange Box. I'm afraid to say your Quadro4 500 GoGL is just a directx7.0 graphics card.

[mau2112]

I'm afraid you are right....

Bill just confirmed this info.

Thanks.

[mau2112]

The weird thing is Steam has a DirectX 7 forcemode for startup options and that's not working either. AND, I just downloaded a PDF with technical specs from NVidia and it says that the 500 GoGl does support Open GL AND DirectX 8.1... I'm so confused... i think I'm just going to return the darned game.

Edited October 26, 2007 by mau2112

[Guest yazmo]

i have the same problem glitch and if not pc freeze or game crash.... i got dell inspiron 1720 8600m gt with the standard drivers came with the laptop.

if anyone find a fix or something let me know yaz109@hotmail.com

[Guest johnlocke]

Alright so I've been having the same common error as a certain chap above me. I have DirectX9.0c, but every time I try to run Team Fortress 2, I get the Engine Error. My graphics card is an Intel 82865G GC, and the Intel site says it IS compatible with 9.0c. Can someone help me out?

[Guest Winky]

I have the same issue as well. And regarding drivers, I have tried switching back to the 163.44 drivers but that didn't seem to solve the lockups.

i dont have a fix but I do have a work around for the fudged up graphics thing shown in the photo..... press shift + tab to get to the community window and shift tab out of it and the screen should be back.... worked for me :)

[Guest guest_tinto]

Alright so I've been having the same common error as a certain chap above me. I have DirectX9.0c, but every time I try to run Team Fortress 2, I get the Engine Error. My graphics card is an Intel 82865G GC, and the Intel site says it IS compatible with 9.0c. Can someone help me out?

It IS all rather confusing but this is my understanding of it: the games in the Orange Box require videocards that has programmable vertex and pixel shaders. Support for these features started with Directx 8. However, Directx 8 or higher cannot support these features if they are not present in the videocard hardware itself.

So, a videocard may be compatible with 9.0c but it doesn't mean it can use any of the features supported by directx9.0c simply because it may not have those features in the actual hardware. The videocard may only have hardware features that are supported by, say, directx7.

With your videocard, I would look on Intel's site and see if it has hardware vertex and pixel shaders. If it does, make sure you install drivers that enables them. If it doesn't, then I'm afraid the Orange Box won't run on your hardware.

I hope what I've said makes sense as typing this out has made me realise how all the more confusing it really all is.

[Guest Tenner]

Hi, i have a question regarding TF2 and older drivers. Has anyone tried HL2: Episode 2 or TF2 with older drivers such as 84.25 or 84.63 or any 84.xx driver ? My notebook with GeForce 6800go seems to perform best when i use these old drivers. Using 15x.xx and newer drivers, performance in some games drops about 10% so I wouldn't like to install them unless it is absolutely necessary.

[Guest Bootvi]

I have the same issue as the first person, yet it does not happen on my PC which is weaker then my Laptop.

It is rather annoying and frustrating, becuase the game runs super smooth until it locks up. When it locks up, the HD led is lit as if it is reading form the HD.

One time it happened after 20 minutes of playing, when a Medic uber charged me, and at that moment exactly the game froze. As if it loaded the Sound file for the Ubercharge. I was starting to think my Hard Drive is messed up completely.

It does not happen in other Source games so far. Is it some issue with the Ram or HD, or is a game bug.

I have an Inspiron 1520, T7300, 2GB ram, 6800M GT with 169.04 Drivers

Another question along the way which puzzled me:

My card should have 256MB ram dedicated, yet I see this info:

I see people say they have 1gb ram there, with 256 dedicated and the rest from the computer's ram.

Is this normal? What should be there?

[Guest Stray-Bullet]

Hello,

I am also having this issue. I will get the messed up picture like the previous poster, but more than that, I CONSTANTLY get the "nvlddmkm has stopped responding and recovered successfully." error. I will also get that "Failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVertexBuffer" error.

I have tried many different drivers, and I can't seem to get any ones that work. I can sometimes play for 2 hours or more, other times I can only play for 10 minutes or so before I crash. This doesn't only happen in TF2 though, sometimes it also happens in Flight Simulator X, or Need For Speed.

I am at a loss, but I figure if anyone comes up with a solution it will be this forum because it's dedicated to laptop drivers.

My specs are as listed below

Asus C90S

2.4 C2D

8600M GT

Windows Vista 32bit

[Guest Josh]

Hello

I'm a bit new to all this technical speak so you'll have to bare with me. I recently purchased the orange box and i just installed it but i cant play it. Whenever i run teamfortress 2 it goes through all the motions and loads up, it gets to the part where there is a pic of the heavy and the medic with loading in the bottom right hand corner but then it just quits and says:

This Game has a minimum of DirectX 8.0 to run properly.

Pretty much the same thing happens with portal.

I'm really confused because My computer has DirectX 9.0c ???:S:S??

I tried downloading a program to uninstall directx9 ( i got it from majorgeeks) it then said i had Version 8.1 but it still will not work.

Please help asap

Josh

[TylerM89]

I ran into that frament issue when using the OEM drivers, but I just installed 163.75 for Windows Vista 32-bit and it seems to work fine.

The wierd part is I'm using an 8600M GS (Which is DirectX10, right?).

HP Pavilion dv9543cl

Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 (2.00Ghz)

2GB of memory

NVidia GeForce 8600M GS (256mb)

320gb HD

Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit

[Guest Guest]

Post by: compfast

typing in -windowed in the launch options fixed the weird graphics problem,....for now

[Guest xAnarChisTx]

Is anybody else experiencing stuttering and choking while playing the game?

I have the 163.69 drivers installed, and I am getting bad playback.

[Guest james]

Hey dudes, as to this, i don't even have an answer. i've tried over and over. I just reinstalled a new graphics card but it still says the following : this game has a minimum of Direcx 8 to run properly. I get to the loading screen and it crashes on me. if anyone has any fixess or downloads, please help me. contact me at Metalfreak510@hotmail.com

please help.

[Guest R S]

Post by: compfast

typing in -windowed in the launch options fixed the weird graphics problem,....for now

i too have the same type of problem. where is the launch options for TF2 and where do i add -windowed ?

thanks

[Gunm3taL]

Right click on Team fortress 2, go to properties, general tab, and click on "Set Launch options"