This really isn't the thread to do it dude, there's plenty of people sitting here waiting days to play the game AT ALL and all sitting here complaining about Valve (especially if you're not even affected by this issue at the moment) does is clog up the thread with dumb shit that makes finding anything actually useful (like dump files) more of a chore for any employee that does get directed to it. Please don't. There's so many other threads on this site you can go rage at Valve on. Let a thread actually be useful for once. Do you know how shitty it is to have someone (because I'm planning on just bugging b4nny to direct them to this one tomorrow) direct a Valve employee to a thread and they just find shit tons of comments shitting on them making the helpful ones harder to find? It's pretty shitty.

Can we not turn this thread into a Valve hate thread, I want it to be actually useful so that if an employee reads it they can kind of find useful information (hoping to get the other people afflicted to post their dumps too) without having to read a lot of dumb shit. :/ There's people who have been waiting almost a whole week and have been unable to launch the game, and it'd be more productive to keep this thread on the cleaner side.

Oh okay, yeah no idea aabout Project 2017, I'm miffed about it too. If it's Generations 2 it could be amazing.

For the record if this isn't fixed tomorrow night I'm hoping we can start getting a lot more attention to this with people spreading noise where it matters, because that will be a whole week for some people where TF2 is just broken on their account and you have to think about not just the more clued in person who checks these sites out and figures it out, there are probably some random people who aren't clued in and their TF2 is just broke too and they have no idea what the fuck is going on. Like, hopefully b4nny bugging Valve will help, but this is a problem that if it isn't figured out relatively quickly will just spread and get worse. mr slin got afflicted today and had to use an alt to do his ESEA match. It's dumb.

It's a team of about 8 indie guys who worked in the 2D Sonic romhack scene for ages now, Sega has nothing to do with this game except for putting their name and blessing on it pretty much.

As far as knowing what works in 2D Sonic and the physics of it there is not many people on this planet that know more than they do when it comes to the subject.

To put this into perspective, the Sonic CD remaster made in 2011 by Taxman who is one of the guys working on Sonic Mania, was a one man effort where he made an engine, faithfully recreated the physics in the original Sonic CD perfectly, and rebuilt the entire game in his engine after taking all the art/sounds/etc. He didn't port it or emulate it, just remade the entire game, and you really can't tell as there's very few differences (outside of the inclusion of a Sonic 3 moveset Tails) that give it away, like a platform that falls down when it wasn't supposed to, or changed bubble positioning to force you to jump.

Since the original thread this is based on is confusing people and the title of the original means people don't click on it much, I want to kind of build awareness to this issue because it has been on-going for what is soon to be 6 days with no Valve response through every channel on offer and if it doesn't get fixed soon it is better more people are at least aware of the problem, because the longer this goes on the higher of a chance you can fuck yourself on playing matches.

Simply put, there is a problem in competitive matchmaking. The only steps any of the afflicted have in common is they close the game either during the loading process of a competitive matchmaking game at some point or they just got done playing a competitive MM game (rank up or no rank up apparently) and close the game and it causes TF2 to refuse to load with the error "CUtlLinkedList overflow (memory allocation error)". This error isn't actually important, more on that later.

Things that have been done by various people to attempt to fix this problem:
* Verifying game cache. (includes deleting shared files like Item Schema)
* Reinstalling/updating drivers.
* Deleting Steam & TF2 and reinstalling.
* Wiping their entire computer and reinstalling.
* Using different OS's.
* Using an entirely different computer and reinstalling.

None of these help as the error seems to be (by my best guess) a corrupt file on Valve's end, at the account level. If you use any other account your game will run fine. If you use the afflicted account on any computer (even a brand new computer that has never run Team Fortress 2 before, with Steam Cloud off), it will crash. The only way to launch TF2 successfully is to force Steam into actual offline mode which means you can only play on VAC Insecure servers with no item server support, as forcing Steam into actual offline mode will make Team Fortress 2 not make a network connection to Valve.

There is no known fix. One or two people have had it fix for them after a period of days with them doing nothing special, but other people have been afflicted for longer with no cure.

The reason the error doesn't matter is because it makes no sense and thanks to the original threads problem, it's obvious something is messed up with TF2's error handling, as Barycenter's problem had nothing to do with memory allocation errors or a memory leak or anything, just a corrupt Item Schema which normally has its own special VERY SPECIFIC error message. Obviously there wouldn't be a persistent memory leak or memory allocation error on PCs that have never even had TF2 installed, but then magically just be okay on another Steam account.

The only way to avoid this foolproof until Valve fixes it is to not play competitive matchmaking at all, or else you risk breaking your account, or if you really want to do it on an alt like I did because this bug is bad.

If a Valve employee happens to stumble on this one instead of the other thread, here's a list of dumps:
http://www.filedropper.com/dumps
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oru29o24qrye4g7/crash_hl2.exe_20160722185710_1.dmp?dl=0
https://puu.sh/qaQh1/8f8326c7e6.dmp
http://www.filedropper.com/crashhl2exe201607250601391
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/egj4vvhpb2yzugc/AAA-v87el2uJxJnQDmeCWAuva?dl=0
http://puu.sh/qdJeQ/3dfdef5e57.dmp
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ngnfndjzf0ly8d3/AABdRdEYq_8emPikz1DvQ63na?dl=0
http://puu.sh/qevI8/be6a2f6e07.rar
http://www.file-upload.net/gal-185439/fxvacq/1.html
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cyk481pki6e03fw/crash_hl2.exe_20160726161725_1.dmp?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hzidnvxb7qn9qh1/crash_hl2.exe_20160726094227_1.dmp?dl=0

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If you are afflicted by this issue please post dumps of it and I'll add it to the OP. You can find dumps in your steam/dumps folder, they'll be called hl2.

If you aren't afflicted but want to actually be useful, email Valve employees about this issue, talk to them on Steam and direct them to this thread, anything to get visibility on it.

Everyone working on it is a romhack figure head.

The other two teams are Headcannon aka Stealth who worked on Megamix 1 and the iOS/Android ports of Taxman's stuff, and Pagoda West is better known as the team that attempted to do Sonic 2 HD, including their musician who is doing all the music in this - Tee Lopes. You can hear his remixed Sonic 2 music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GGQPKwKeww

There is no fix, you wait until Valve fixes it. It has seem to randomly fix itself for people after days, but it's seemingly random and could be something on Valve's end.

Thankfully if you have UGC or something you can just make a new alt and roster it and just be missing some weapons, but eh.

It was alright. The only thing that bugged me was how Barry's speedforce looked, coz it was blue.

The Wonder Woman trailer was super hype tho.

Yeah my alt is, I made an alt just to play after this bug came to light, I just stopped playing comp MM on my main coz I need to not break my main account.

I got desperate enough to bug b4nny on twitch chat and he said he'll send it to Valve and hopefully get us a response.

Hype.

Talking to Steam support is pretty pointless about this as it isn't a Steam client or Steam account issue.

Like this isn't what they are supposed to deal with at all really, this needs to just get noticed by a Valve dev asap.

You'll get there eventually but it'll take you awhile of automated/bad responses yeah. Probably the only way tho since none of my emails have got to them.

Hope you gave them your dump too!

I haven't received a reply in any channel I pursued. rip.

The only time people ever try anything new is if the current thing everyone is using dies. TF2Center only became a thing because TF2Lobby was literally dead. TF2Stadium is completely ignored basically (I've tried to play on it SOOOO many times) even though mass amounts of people complain about TF2Center. Everyone stuck with IRC pugs for the longest time, etc.

It's been like this since I joined the scene back in late 2009/early 2010, so yeah, I don't think he's wrong. I think b4nny is just talking about an underlying problem though in general, which is that competitive TF2 enjoys its bubbles for everything. You can even just look at the resources for it, there's a billion resources spread out everywhere, rather than people working together to collate it all into one place. It's a complete struggle for people to tap knowledge because that knowledge almost seems intentionally spread every random place you could imagine. There is no one easy spot to read high quality guides, or watch gammes, or learn rollouts, or find demos, or anything. If you wanna learn rollouts there's rollout.tf but if you want to learn how to get into comp theres playcomp.tf but if you want to learn how to play a class you gotta find a youtube video or a steam guide and if you want to watch a demo you gotta go fishing for it because there's no real easy way to find demos. People like to complain about whatever format they don't play rather than unify and just play. The list goes on and on, really.

If it's on their end it could fix itself after an indeterminate amount of time maybe, but uh, yeah my alt and my friends account are still broke.