Team Fortress 2 crashes when I press Esc

Hello all,

After today’s update, my Team Fortress has begun crashing whenever I press Esc or open backpack. I can Shift+Tab and type in chat, however.
I’ve already tried verifying my game cache multiple times, after the second time the game downloaded a 200MB update, but when I launched it after that finished I had the same problem.

If anyone has any idea how to go about fixing this, I’d be very grateful.
Thanks.

  1. Take a bottle cap
  2. Put it over your ESC key
  3. ???
  4. Profit.

:meh:

that’s the new rage quit feature

Seriously? Nothing?

:frowning:

Don’t be lazy, reinstall tf2

I already have. Deleted local files and reinstalled. Also, I’ve defragged game cache, verified integrity at least 5 times, deleted clientregistry.blob and defragged my HDD.

computer specs?

OS : Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit
CPU : AMD Phenom II X2 550 (Dual Core @ 3.10GHz)
RAM : 4GB
GPU : NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 (1GB VRAM)
HDD : 1TB HDD

Anything else needed?

no, i thought it may have been hardware related… any bad settings in tf2?

Bad settings? Clarify please.

It started following 19/11/10’s update.

Sounds like a weird bug!

Valve tech support?

unbind quit on esc

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