I have been trying to get back into playing two days a week during this election cycle so when I come back after I won't be so shitty. One thing that I have noticed since I last played two months ago is the insane about of time I waste validating game files. Now I know this happened on occasion a while ago, but it is now happening when I shutdown, restart comp, or even close TF2. I've noticed that a few people have been having issues like this but never to this degree of frequency. So, any help with this? Things I've tried

-defrag
-reinstall TF2
-reinstall steam and all games
-disable steam cloud (actually, been gone since it came out becuase it was really annoying, maybe it should be enabled?)
-reformatted

Second issue/settings

I just bought a 120hz monitor and had a few questions regarding the settings to use. I am already using the -freq 120 and -refresh 120 and have it enabled via display monitor. My questions is what should be the fps max be set to? I used to limit it to 250, because anything over 300 made the game feel like it was in speed mode, but what should I use now? I have heard from a few other forums that you need at least 240, but that makes little sense to me. I would understand that need in the case of 3d since it's two images being ran at the same time, but are these people correct?

Any other settings that should be used for 120hz?

Thanks,
Fzero


Also, I said I was going to review this monitor and I still plan on it in the next few days. But tbh, I wanted to be in-depth and even include pictures, but our house is such a disaster from both of us working I have to clean first. Expected it in the next week.