Team Fortress 2 Forum

A few of the threads here and the Tips & Tricks section mention that GLSL now works with TF2. However when I enable it, all I'm getting is a black screen once TF2 loads. I can tell it's running since I can hear the music and mouse actions, but I can't see jack squat. Disabling GLSL resolves the problem at the obvious cost of image quality.

Is there something I'm doing wrong here? I'd really like to be able to play it with better than the lowest effects if possible.

This is on a Mac Pro '08 with an 8800GT and 4GB of RAM running Mac OS X 10.5.6 & CXGames 7.2, by the way.

Try setting the game's launch options in the Steam Properties dialog to include "-dxlevel 81" (without the quotes). Then, launch the game once. Then, remove "-dxlevel 81" from the launch options. See if that helps.

Doing this will reset the game's video settings to their defaults. So, once you have removed the launch option, you may want to reapply any of your preferred settings.

i have the same system as he does and your fix didn't do anything, its still a black screen

Ken, thanks for the advice. Unfortunately it has no effect. That process, or indeed any amount of messing with resetting the game's settings and/or adjusting the dxlevel is having any impact on the black screen.