Debugging this issue further, the stock VPKs TF2 comes with load in fine. The main issue at hand is that everytime I try to launch a map, it crashes the game with a segmentation fault error.

Does TF2 work with symlinks made with the mklink command on windows 10? Because I cannot get symlinks to work with TF2 for the (my) life of me.

Like as if both of you know anything about this argument anyway. cl_threaded_bone_setup isn't even listed in cvarlist anymore.

@mastercoms has this cvar been removed?

EDIT: cl_threaded_bone_setup can be found in tf/bin/client.dll, but this doesn't mean it hadn't got removed in a sense, and even if it "technically" still exists, the point is that its been hidden so you should stop telling me to do anythting with that cvar.

I can say the same thing here.

I know. I just thought it'd make the RSS feed more visible. P.S Do TF2 and Minecraft work with symlinks… like at all?

I'm not trolling.

Right and how do you exactly get the output from stdout without a debugger? I tried launching TF2 from the regular command line and I got nothing. How exactly do you think I got the segmentation fault error? They doesn't show up at all in source console logs; only debuggers can show those fatal errors.

Turns out it was just a steam beta glitch clientside. I can play TF2 properly now.

P.S Can we get an RSS feed for stable releases from mastercomfig.com? Oh and btw @turbochad69 cl_threaded_bone_setup doesn't exist in TF2 with the -dev launch op, so it's been removed.

This isn't a TROLL!

Why are we like this…

Well hey I was panicking and couldn't think that well, and my wisdown level is pretty low (relative of course; there's no reliable way to measure intelligence or wisdom).

Well hey it's not easy to search up the solution. Sometimes it's obscured in very specific permutations of letters out of thousands of possibilities, and I either give a detailed explanation, or a shitty boomer one. Anyway I forgot about Steam Betas and opted out. Now I don't get this issue.

Likewise I think there's some corruption glitch in the beta steam client.

TL;DR Everytime I load up a server the game crashes, and the player column in the server browser only shows 1⁄1, which is not normal behavior.

Then try running cl_threaded_bone_setup in TF2 with the -dev launch option. I can't trust your claim and I can't launch up TF2 so I can't prove this for my self currently.

Anyway as for the main issue at hand

I moved this issue to another post in the more relevant Q/A Help forum.

Context

I was just updating mastercomfig from the github repo yesterday, so I tried to load up TF2 to test it out. However when I got to the main menu, every time I tried to load up a map/server TF2 would crash, and every row in the player column was always "1⁄1" in the server browser. I haven't fully tried hardcore searching it up, but this is not a typical error I have heard of/seen before. I posted this issue in the mastercomfig thread initially because I thought this was an issue with mastercomfig, but stock TF2 still crashed even when I cleaned it up, so that ruled out mastercomfig, thus is why I made this thread to solve this issue in a more relevant forum. Today I come back after exams and now TF2 can't even get to the main menu.

Debugging

I logged TF2 both through -condebug -dev and the GDB debugger. Looking through the logs, I noticed this strange error that shows just before I run into the segmentation fault error (shown by GDB) that's crashing the game:

Unknown command ""

or with the unicode converted to C-style escapes:

Unknown command "\xEF"

That unicode character converts to an 'ï' character. I have never used this character in any of my script (or CFG) files and while I do use this character in my captions, that has never caused any particular issue before.

Regular console log
The GDB log

It's important to note that this crash occurs when running the game through hl2.exe itself (meaning the crash occurs regardless if I launch TF2 through steam or Playnite). However the crash occurs during launch when using Playnite, while Steam manages to get to the main menu, but TF2 still crashes when entering a server/map.

Hypothesis

I have a feeling there's some sort of internal corruption going on that I'm not seeing. I checked the stock VPKs TF2 comes with and none of them are corrupted (confirmed by open files through GCFScape and they are intact). I am also running stock TF2, so this might be an issue with the game itself.

I haven't checked the video config yet, but that might give me clues.

Why are you posting this here?

So that future players who have this issue can get this issue solved much faster, without going through this painful process.

EDIT: TF2 running in -insecure mode means nothing in this situation, so I removed unneccessary information relating to it.

I haven't used net_graph in a while, so I forgot frame rate was even displayed. It's just easier to use that cvar instead since it allows for more frame rate/time info.