Hakutulokset

Tell us what model number your current video card is and maybe you could play some of the more advanced games at low resolution, etc.

Yu may have answered your question within your question....
RollOffTheTongueGaming
Give it a try.

How does your computer stack up compared to the minimum requirements on the TF2 store page (at the bottom)?
I think either your short of RAM or your video card RAM isn't large enough so it can't load all of the textures (metal, brick, etc). I can't determine if you need a newer video card, but anything recent (past 3 years) should be able to handle it(if thats the issue at all).
If you meet the hardware requrements, then maybe TF2 got corrupted somehow. Try validating the steam cache (Right-click TF2, pick "Properties" from the popup, find the "Local Files" tab) and then run TF2 again.
Good luck fellow pyro. If you need more help or got it working find me on steam and lets melt the enemy together.

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/messagetovalve
We tried, we were awesome in our own way to get valve to speak or say anything about HL2Ep3/HL3(I heard the group itself was on the news...somewhere)... and then we lost our momentum.

Info and/or the game will only happen when Valve considers it ready. It seems nobody can even find out if they're even working on it(point of the group). You'll just have to wait now, like everybody else.

1. Steal underpants
2. ???
3. Trade them on steam
4. Profittt!!!

I heard that the maintenance is scheduled once a day but I've only heard it through other people. I'd appreciate some kind of popup in the client (way ahead of time, each time) about a planned outage due to maintenance, otherwise I figure its just bad network code. This stuff happens possibly several times a minute, or a few hours. Sometimes it doesn't get disconnected at all (for days). It can last for about a minute... or for 20 minutes. No way to tell.

Speakers on? Plugged in? also try completely unpugging and plugging the wire to the computer as sometimes its not all the way in.
You may have also accidently hit the mute key on some of the fancier keyboards... or nudged the volume control from within Windows. There is also a volume setting for each "Application" under WinVisa/7 in the same volume control screen.
If your audio driver crashed, then reboot and see if you have any sound at all.

Same situation in California.

Now here's the funny part, even the admins (guys with starts) get disconnected. I guess they must not have a problem with that.

Nobody mentioned VIDEO GAMES yet!

Also this isn't the beginning of the end, or the end of the end...
this is the middle... of the beginning...

So if they (being computer illiterate) decide to download a virus accidently, you're kind of hosed.
Get a cheap crummy computer that is only for storing the game files and put your game on that. Technically thats also more efficiently purchased as a NAS(Network Attached Storage) box. I don't know how intense the network traffic will be, but steam would normally be loading this off your local hard drive.
Perhaps have a second internal hard drive that is only for steam games, that you only plug in when you're going to play. Otherwise only one drive would show up. (I'm assuming you have a desktop and can put two drives in there).