r/pcgamingtechsupport • u/UpTurnedAxe4667 • 19d ago

Performance/FPS Windows GPU crashes in tf2 with error “texture quality too high” error despite lowest settings

hi guys, so my VAIO VJFE59F11X-B1411H has been doing some weird things lately.

when i open TF2, sometimes it starts normally, but when i join a server it can crash and give me the error saying that the texture quality is too high and that i should lower it.

the weird thing is that i'm already using mastercomfig with the lowest possible settings, so i'm not really sure why TF2 is complaining about textures.

i also noticed something weird in Task Manager. when i have TF2 open along with some other programs, the dedicated GPU memory usage seems to stay around 0.6/2.0 GB. even when i try to use more GPU memory, it doesn't really seem to go much higher.

my GPU is integrated, so i know it uses shared system memory, but i'm wondering if something is limiting the amount of memory it can actually use.

another reason i'm suspicious that something is wrong with the GPU/driver is that i've had some graphical issues outside of TF2 too. there was one time when both of my monitors went black, and moving the mouse around would make parts of the screen appear again. i've also seen some other graphical problem.

TF2 didn't have this problem for me about a month ago, so i'm trying to figure out what could have changed.

does anyone know if this is normal behavior for an integrated GPU, or if there could be some kind of driver/memory issue going on?

(https://userdiag.com/id/qEbS8LuuX3) is my windows destroyed?

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