more than 99% of TF2 are pubbers. Pub streamers are part of the community. If anything they're more part of it than streamers who only stream competitive gametypes. Competitive (sadly) is only a tiny part of the TF2 community

And the stream list only attracts pubbers to streams anyway. They will watch what they're interested in (spoilers: not competitive). People who are interested in competitive streams figured out where to find competitive streams long ago

Also twitch chat has become a lot more toxic since random pubbers have started joining twitch chats through the stream list. It's for the best that most of them stick to the pub streams you don't care about so you don't have to deal with them

I also still have 3 cheaters pending. Apparently one of their AC mods who still had to review stuff left the staff not long ago. Reports that he had to review still need to be looked at by other people and they are down a man now that he's gone so it's taking a while.

Your report and some of my reports probably were part of his to review

You should remove the -dxlevel after launching the game with it once. tf2 stays the same dxlevel after removing it. Always having it in launch options can cause issues with tabbing in and out.
Don't know if that might have something to do with your issue but it's worth a try and should always be done regardless of MM issues or not

Also like Biscuits said, try 95. It's considered the most stable version of dx9 for tf2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQudWbEBwKM
I am bad at videogames

Enough with the personal insults. We get it. Let's not derail the thread please :)
She's a hacker. She's been posted in here. Time to move on

If she is an attention whore then giving her more attention (postitive or negative) probably is what she wants. That's why a lot of people hack in the first place

can we all report this guy's steam profile for harassment? Valve pretty much does nothing when you report someone for cheating but with a profile like that they're more likely to ban him for harassment than anything else

edit: also use steamid.io
here's a permanent link to the profile http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198024732929

got banned on twitch by Star_ twice. Not even one of his mods, actually star timing me out manually

First time was because I was tired and my sentence structure made no more sense. He had no clue what I was saying so he thought it was for the best to just time me out for 10 minutes in case I was talking shit. he apologized when doing it though. He just wanted to make sure

Second time was when Star was hosting truktruk and I said to Steven, one of truktruk's mods:
"good luck moderating with Star's viewers in chat, Steven". Turns out Star's name is Steven as well and he was lurking in truktruk's chat. He thought it was aimed at him

also got permabanned on some orange server once by a mod who'd known me for weeks and suddenly decided to spec me even though he never said anything about my aim before that

Sorry man. That's all I've got. You can still try reinstalling Lawena if you haven't tried that yet but I'm out of ideas

http://puu.sh/nQQ38/b289d4d7ca.png
take a look in your "tf" folder. Delete the backup Lawena zip files like you see at the bottom in the screenshot. They contain backups of all files that can be found in "tf > cfg" and "tf > custom". Those cause the "files not replaced due to backup folders still present" error.

http://puu.sh/nQQ0m/19304282e0.png
move all the files in your "custom" folder to a new folder on your desktop so your custom folder is empty, then start Lawena and see if it can start tf2 without the 120 seconds error. If it has to back up less files it should take less long. Afterwards you can simply put the files you put on your desktop back in custom where they belong

If this doesn't fix the issue then the issue might be Lawena itself just not working on your PC for some reason I don't know

Doubt I'll be able to help you with anything if the advice I've already given doesn't work. I never really encountered any of the issues you've had and I'm not that familiar with Lawena

You can try redownloading Lawena in case you have an outdated version. I doubt redownloading TF2 is necessary

every time Lawena loads its own config it backs up your own config in a zip file in your tf folder. My backup zip files never delete properly, but I haven't had any issues with them still being there and I just delete them when 10 or so pile up. Take a look in your tf folder and remove the zip files if they're still there

Also I'd recommend backing up your own config somewhere else as well before you start TF2. Friend of mine lost his entire config because of Lawena having trouble replacing the configs with the original ones again

Never encountered the 120 seconds issue, but maybe this'll fix that as well.
If not: Maybe it just takes too long to back up your config because it's too big of a file? It usually says so when your cfg files are too big to back up but maybe you don't get the error message for some reason. Try placing your cfg files in Custom elsewhere before starting Lawena. Maybe that helps

https://www.twitch.tv/truktruk/v/55295235

the HUD still needs some updating for MM and Valve changes the HUD elements every other day.
I suggest using Improved Default HUD for playing MM until rayshud is updated properly

Ask in his stream. A lot of his viewers use it and there's a pastebin for it which I lost long ago. Maybe his bot even has a command for it. Not sure

You could even just make it yourself:
Google sites that turn images into text
convert raysFox to text
put "echo" in front of every line of text
then put it in your autoexec

Probably to avoid people from falling for the OP post. He posted the comment first, then edited because he realized it was for the best to edit the OP post and you can't remove comments yourself. he doesn't want anyone to fall for what's looking like something shady if they just so happen to not read the rest of the thread

@ConsoleWarsGamer could you post the steam profile of the owner in the thread again? Just to avoid them doing shit like this again in the future (without making new alts at least) and maybe someone will recognize the profiles and will be able to clear some stuff up. Maybe they've done shady stuff before