Currently there is a bug that quite a number of people have been experiencing, which one of them is myself. This bug relates to not being able to hear voice lines or menu music in TF2. This bug logs an error to the console that looks like this:

Attempting to play MP3 with no vaudio [*path to file*.mp3 ]
Failed to create decoder for MP3 [*path to file*.mp3 ]

Which concurrently occurs for every voice line or menu sound/music it tries to play. Only these are affected and any other sound such as guns or fall damage are unaffected. The perhaps most intriguing part is that this bug seems to only occur in Windows 10. I assume its the new april's update that causes this bug somehow as before the update I didn't experience this problem.

It is safe to assume its a windows 10 problem since I have installed a fresh copy of windows 7 onto a partition and ran steam from windows 10, therefore having access to all of my games on my windows 10 partition and loading the game from those files, resulting in the exact same files in which the bug was no longer there.

Different things have been tried, all of which are listed in a reddit thread you can find here.

EDIT: After experimentation and help from users HfTFranz and Nickbro101 over on reddit, a conclusion has been reached.

Windows 10 update that rolled in on the 8th of May is the culprit for the bug that caused TF2 not to play voice lines and menu music.

Windows update - KB4103721 should be unninstalled among those who currently have this bug. Although It is suspected that a wider player base may have not have this bug since it may target SSDs only where the game is installed and maybe even more specific to some type of SSDs too. This update is known to cause issues with some SSDs already.

Thanks to those users aforementioned that widely helped in the solution to a problem that has affected those who experienced it.

EDIT#2: NEWEST GRAPHICS DRIVER, GEFORCE EXPERIENCE APP UPDATE AND WINDOWS 10 UPDATE FIXES ALL OF THESE ISSUES STATED ABOVE!

If your TF2 crashes on launch, disable experimental features in geforce experience app and that should fix it.

unnecessary aggression towards other gamers thread, thats what i've just witnessed

i know im late but my gag is double gag so its better than your gag, o-gagmeister.

Mine's the same as last year's: 1280 x 768. Yours?

Even though I'm not within the TFTV community as much as i'd like to be, just by seeing the comments and appreciation the man above receives from our fellow gamers, not only speaks for itself, as do his wholesome comments within this thread. I may not know you, but if I did, I wouldn't have regretted it at any point. I think it's this type of exposure we all sort of thrive for when we come to think about what kind of person we'd like to portray ourselves to be to other people.

TL;DR: I expect no less than poundage from this gamer.

Thanks my friend that seems to have fixed it for viaduct at the least!

Hi everyone, since I've used comanglia's cfg for high quality computers I have been having a few (reflection?) problems with my game, these are caused in different maps but predominantly in koth_viaduct.

I tried messing with the settings in-game but with no good result, I wonder if you have ever come across this problem before and if not I'll have my config below if you want to have a look.

http://i.imgur.com/mu7FN3X.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/COlxpRZ.jpg

My CFG

Yes, it is indeed very sad, but I'd like to keep the setup as it is and replace only the GPU, since it would be considered rude to sell a gift or a part of a gift from someone else, by the way I was raised.

Although I was thinking that if I had to sell anything to obtain money it would be one of the RAM sticks which would be the least needed on this build. and thanks for your opinion! I shall be upgrading my psu whenever i can therefore being able to buy a better gpu later on or maybe crossfire two cards if it ever deems necessary

Hey guys, I've recently been surprised by a birthday present which I was not expecting since it hasn't happened for 3 years.
My mother bought me a new computer which she knows very little about. She spend a little over 1k British pounds on it and it is not the best well rounded computer.

It is bundled although built on the spot and bought from meshcomputers.com

The specs are:

CPU:I7 6700
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA Z170 Gaming k3
Memory: 16GB RAM Corsair vengeance 2400mhz DDR4
Storage: 2tb Barracuda Harddrive 3.5" and 250 Gb SSD 850 EVO SATA @ Raid 1
Video Card: Nvidia Quadro NVS 310 510Mb RAM
Case: Corsair CC-9011084-WW-SPEC-ALPHA-Windowed-Mid-Tower
Power Supply: FSP HEXA 500W PSU 80 plus

I can already tell that you are cringing to how badly balanced this computer is, due to having everything at a very high quality and then cutting off at the gpu therefore bottlenecking the whole build. For the amount of money she spent, she could have bought a build way more well versed, but regardless. I can't change the build as it is shipping right now, nor would my mother let me do that - so the only way I can make the best of this is to buy a better graphics card.

I currently have 60 pounds and though will have around 20 - 30 pounds more next week as I am unemployed for the moment.
After some research on affordable GPU's I have turned my focus towards AMD as predicted, and came out with a pleasant result.XFX Radeon R7 360 2GB GDDR5 only at £82.99.
It fits nicely within my budget and outperforms my similar priced graphics card almost 800x as benchmarks do tell. I would like to run everything at the least on low and potentially at 1920 x 1080p since I never had that luxury before on my really terrible laptop.
I came here not to tell a story but to receive your insightful opinion on my current situation and whether you think this is the best move or if you think there's something I could do better.

Thanks for taking your time!

it doesn't mess with steam, the only problem windows 10 has is the forced vsync it has and if you use an old integrated graphics card, it doesn't let you remove the black bars from a non-native ratio. The forced vsync only exists if the game is run in windowed mode and there's no known way to disable it on windows 10 (assuming that ending dwm,exe doesn't disable vsync).

Ez

It's only natural Portugal is going to win the nations cup :^) we done it in euros, and we shall do it again

Where is this going to be casted?

bro dont u get it, he's had 140 steam accounts since tf2 came out, he obviously didn't want to stick with one account knowing people might recognize him...
bro come on, dude, bro, friend

I'd love if this update was towards making dx90 viable, as i can't even run tf2 at 60 fps at dx80 and toaster fps config

As said before by Robin walker, Tf2 has a small team which works on updates which they feel like, its all up to their discretion to add or change something about the game if they feel like, even if the team size has increased now do to the upcoming updates and growth of the tf2 comp scene, im not convinced they have changed just yet on their decision making until esports tf2 starts making banging money.