Yeah, I figured it's a Linux-specific issue. I'll report the bug on the steam-for-linux issue tracker if it's not fixed soon.

I haven't tested it as a VPK yet.

wtf did i do to deserve this

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20059685/pics/Untitled-1.png

i did
trying a reinstall now

http://i.imgur.com/wHEZQta.png

????

you have 20 GB of maps

13.6 to be exact

I raise

http://puu.sh/2GWEv.png

Finally got Puush to work. Damnit

Custom HUD and hitsound are working

http://i.imgur.com/4mbLjlD.png

http://puu.sh/2GXCb/004a9c67a5.png

After opting-in to steampipe does anyone with 120hz notice a choppiness in windowed mode + no border? It's smooth like butter in fullscreen for me but starts burning my eyes when I switch to windowed.

I used to play windowed, no border but I'm probably going to have to switch for now. Luckily alt+tab is fixed I guess.

im just gonna use this post to document all the errors i get from tf2:

crashed with engine error "Can't load lump 8, allocation of 10934697 bytes failed!!!"

crashed with engine error "failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVertexBuffer: nVertexCount=4, nFirstVertex=0"

things i have done to try and fix:
verify
re-install
freshlaunch
verify
installing cfg into correct folder
verify
uninstalling cfg
verify

crashes on:
server connect
on ubercharge
on map change
on round end
randomly

What are your launch options?

-dxlevel 81 -h 1080 -w 1920 -sw -windowed -noborder -novid -useforcedmparms -noforcemaccel -noforcemspd

Take out your launch options and see if it still crashes?

when i took my settings nothing changed in visuals except its no longer noborder

its also running stable now so i think its the noborder

Well not perfect but better than nothing. Are your video card drivers up to date?

ye, it actually seems to be perfectly fine now strangely
guess if youre having problems, remove noborder
EDIT: LOL NVM

still getting crashes ;_;

These loading times are delicious.
My framerate is steady ~100 rather than 20-100.
Good job, valve.
Truly.

FWIW everything after -novid is irrelevant and does nothing as of a Source engine update some time ago. Use the raw input toggle in your Options>Mouse menu instead.

its now consistently giving me an error similar to this upon crash

is it a problem with my RAM?

not sure if it related to your crashing, but -dxlevel 81 in your launch options should be removed after the first time launching with it

-sw and -windowed are essentially the same thing, and like meb said, remove -dxlevel xx after you launch the game with it

if your ram was faulty in any way your computer would crash pretty often
so unless you do crash a lot then no

My folder was 60 gb before steam pipe :/

BTW, latest update to Steampipe TF2 fixes hitsounds not working.

so when i first opted in to steampipe everything worked great, but then i tried to install custom content right before this most recent steam update and now tf2 doesn't work, it just opens up for literally one second then closes with no error message or anything. also, everytime i open steam it logs me into friends automatically. each time i change the option in preferences so it doesn't do that but then the next time i open steam i'm logged in again and my preferences are back to the way they were. is this bugginess just part of steampipe? due to the update? anyone else having this problem?

Opened an issue.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/2346

[edit] Seems this issue was already reported on the other project tracker. You can follow it here:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/327

You can add the path explicitly to gameinfo.txt to fix the issue.

game+mod			tf/custom/*

Should be changed to:

game+mod			tf/custom/*
game+mod			tf/custom/hud

Try to remember to remove this change when Valve fixes it.

transition was fine except for my hitsound.
on some servers, it plays my dingalingaling, on others, it plays the default dingalingaling

When its working as I would like it, some of the time my hitsound turns into a 5 second long screech which is unbearable.

oh my god tf2 loads fast now.

Everything's working well for me except hitsound - I can't seem to find a place to put it that works, and also tf_dingaling_pitchmax/mindmg no longer appears to work. Has anybody else encountered this issue?

A bit furthur up I posted about this. Apparently custom hitsounds will only work on servers also running steampipe. However once all the servers are converted, it should work fine, and be installed the same way you install custom huds and whatnot.