Frequently Asked Questions
Team Fortress 2
Question
Answer
I lagged or alt-tabbed out of game and now have a visual problems?
Visual problems fix
This is afix for misplaced items, players holding wrong weapons, invisible players, missing cart indicator and wrong team color models(Blue medic with red needle gun)
Add to your autoexec.cfg
bind "key" "record fix; stop"
The crosshairs are hard to see. Can they be edited to colour?
Yes they can. Tutorial can be found at Bulls Eye Crosshairs
I get a looping sound of fire burning, weapon firing or ambient noise.
Type snd_restart in console
How can I disable the center screen "hint" messages at the start of every map?
VALVe thought we need to play a map more than 50 times before we finally don't need telling how to play it anymore.
Navigate to
C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\youremail\team fortress 2\tf\media
open viewed.res with notepad
change the view number to "50" or higher on each map.
20 Second Respawn ! Is it supposed to be this way?
Valve's explanation:
Respawn waves occur on regular intervals, based on the map settings. Most of our maps use a 10 second respawn wave time. That 10 seconds is then modified by the map state, generally reduced for the team that controls the most capture points. Each team's respawn wave time is then scaled down if the team has less than 8 players in it, to a minimum of 5 seconds if team has 3 or less players in it. When you die, you are assigned to the respawn wave after the next one. So if the respawn wave time is currently 10 seconds for your team, you'll respawn somewhere between 10 and 20 seconds from your death. Your individual performance doesn't affect your respawn time in any way.
I haven't received a single drop item since the Sniper/Spy update.
To earn weapon drops you currently have to be signed into the Friends Network on Steam.
If you are not receiving weapon drops please ensure that you're signed in.
Steam > Friends > Sign In!