TF2 Crashes when rendering

[Vivi Hill]

It is sad day: TF2 keeps crashing whenever I try to render a replay. Tried lots of things. Multicore rendering disabled, changed codecs all around, it crashes no matter what. I can play the replays back, but can't render them.

Verified integrity as well. Still no dice. Not really anything else I can think of to help. This doesn't seem to be a common problem. It worked with my old setup.

[MournfulOdin]

Yeah, I was having some issues with that last week too. I couldn't even retrieve the replays, TF2 just closed itself. It was missing some codec shader I think...or something like that. Could it be something in the way the server is saving the file?

[Vivi Hill]

I don't think that's the problem I'm having through. I can play back the videos. Just can't render them.

[fingerman]

You might have checked this already, but I would suggest checking the printer cable.

[Vivi Hill]

I went to my dorm lounge and unplugged the printer cable but it didn't work! And now I can't print things! But if I want to print at the library it works! PLS HELP

PS: Its a wireless printer so the cables don't matter right?

[doppelganger]

Mine crashes all the time when it finishes. Most of my replays don't save right either, they either just say they're not there or crash when I try to open them.

[Techercizer]

Can you post your console output at time of crash so that we can see what's going on? There should also be a crash log autogenerated somewhere.

[Vivi Hill]

I'm not sure how I can post my console output. The game crashes completely. Also I don't think it has time to post a dump or crash log, since TF2 itself doesn't acknowledge the error. Windows just shows a pop up saying "hl2.exe has stopped working".

I should add that nearly every time I quit TF2 the game doesn't exit properly, and has a similar crash. But it hasn't affected the game in any way.

[Vivi Hill]

So I renamed the TF2 folder so i had a clean install. Then I joined some arbitrary server (first time in like 2 years!) and, once I found one that wasn't a reserved slot and had working replays (that was difficult...) I tried rendering one and it worked.

I then rejoined CSn and made a replay, and now I can render. So I guess the replay I was interested in recording was corrupted. Oh well, it wasn't an incredible replay

Thanks for trying to help, but now it seems to work. Ah well.

[Techercizer]

It usually is some element of the replay, but I've hacked around replay errors before. If you can isolate what item (usually a texture or model) was written incorrectly and caused the crash, you can sometimes work out a solution.

Glad to hear it wasn't an epic replay you lost.

[Trauma Advocate]

It usually is some element of the replay, but I've hacked around replay errors before. If you can isolate what item (usually a texture or model) was written incorrectly and caused the crash, you can sometimes work out a solution.

O rly?

See, I've run into this problem a lot, and if there's a workaround I'd *love* to hear it, I've got a couple nice replays I'd like to render if they can be salvaged.