Anyone else having trouble with TF2 on PC?

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Hiphophippo

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None of my favorited servers are showing in the browser and only 5-10 are showing under the internet tab. All of these are empty though : /

Help?
 

Heart of Darkness

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I'm having trouble just getting into the damn game. Could be because the WiFi I'm stealing using sucks ass.

Of course, I went to play today, and now it's updating. "Ready to play in approximately: 15 hours 18 minutes." I need to go somewhere with decent WiFi...
 

kerkanka

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it appears this is a bug that crept in just before the engy update. There are a couple of threads in the steam forums about it. I'd assume valve know about it, but i'm not certain. Essentially, the server client is broken and will not remember settings or history and it's connection reliability is a bit off too
 

Hiphophippo

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I can't even see the internet server list outside of those few empty servers. I needs mah fix : /
 

kerkanka

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that's worse than a lot of people are having, but a solution that seems to work for most server issues with steam is to delete the ClientRegisry.blob in your steam folder and then re-load steam and get it to download that file again. It's fixed about 5 seperate bugs for me when the tf2 servers weren't working for me. if you just move it or rename it then you won't lose it incase steam doesn't re-download for some reason. Also, try playing an offline match and then go into the server browser, for some reason it seems to kick it into action for me.

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if you have more issues try the steam help forums, they usually have the same answers (anti-virus software, firewalls, poor internet connection) but they have clear steps to test and repair those if they are causing the issue.
 

kerkanka

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i just managed to totally fix my issue with this. I opened up the steam folder and went to:
steam>Userdata> (the folder with numbers)> config> serverbrowser_ui.vdf i then deleted this file and re-opened steam. (it won't re-download anything, so keep that file somewhere just in case) i then went into tf2 and saw that i could add favourites again and that server connections were good. It took another 3 restarts of TF2, but it's all working fine now for me. I should add that before the 3rd restart the favourites were showing, but there were only around 3 servers in the internet tab