How do I fix my fucked up character models?

[Aerox]

All of a sudden a couple days ago my character models turned a weird shiny whitish color.  Every other model/texture in the game is fine.

[Dave]

if i had to guess, did you update your graph driver?

[Aerox]

Nope.  Nothing about my system changed at all.  It just fucked up.

[CaffeinePowered]

if i had to guess, did you update your graph driver?

Step 1: Update Graphics Driver

Step 2: Update all other drivers

Step 3: Try a custom skin, see if that shows up as normal

Step 4: Reinstall TF2

[REDjackeT]

[quote author=Dave link=topic=1113.msg29093#msg29093 date=1218299218]
if i had to guess, did you update your graph driver?

Step 1: Update Graphics Driver

Step 2: Update all other drivers

Step 3: Try a custom skin, see if that shows up as normal

Step 4: Reinstall TF2
[/quote]

Warning: Obvious content ahead...

completely remove the old vid driver before installing a new one or the same one...

There was a setting for the nvidia drivers that used to say "may increase performance but may make models shiny" and I can't remember which it was and the wording has changed in the latest ones.  I saw it happen once on a sentry on 2fort, but not since.  If you remove the driver entirely it should reinstall with default settings.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D---Dri...-1655.html <-- that should work if you don't have one

P.S.
Yay for a kill!

[Chaosye]

That looks so cool.

[Aerox]

Oddly enough reinstalling didn't fix it.

I finally got it to go away by sticking -autoconfig in the launch properties to reset everything.

[copulatingduck]

Do you run in directx8 or something? I see this happen to everyone who does. Good job getting it working though.

[Luinbariel]

This exact issue temporarily happened to me the other night on #2... My game locked up for about 30 seconds, and when I came back my models were all in the same state, and all text was weird and matrix-like.

Restarting steam fixed it for me.

[[fr31ns]Karrde]

First step should always be to verify the GCFs, defrag, reinstall from GCFs.  Failing that, reupdate steam by vaping everything but steamapps.  Failing that vape TF2 and the GCFs.  Failing that, go after drivers and whatnot.

[Neonie]

and all text was weird and matrix-like.

Why would you want to fix that 

[Luinbariel]

Here are some screens I took before I restarted steam... I thought I got some of the models, but I guess not.

[Squishy3]

lol @ you being killed by the cart location icon

[Ceceil Felias]

CART LOCATION ICON IS LOOKING GOOD!

[ktj]

CART LOCATION ICON IS LOOKING GOOD!

+1  ;D

To Aerox, try removing our cfg's, that looks like lightbugs.

[hawtpawkithero]

reformat.



lol.