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Quoted from octochris

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18:52 – [FB] Chris the Medical Marvel: oh btw
18:52 – [FB] Chris the Medical Marvel: if you get beeps (i haven’t recently, think valve fixed it)
18:53 – [FB] Chris the Medical Marvel: type in run
18:53 – [FB] Chris the Medical Marvel: “net stop beep”
18:53 – [FB] Chris the Medical Marvel: without quotes

Quoted from octochris

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I’m guessing you’re using the beta UI? This is a complete guess, but maybe the beta UI now depreciates entirely the use of -applaunch.

Try doing it manually then, just create a shortcut with the following target, and what I said above as “start in”:

"C:SLASHProgram FilesSLASHSteamSLASHSteam.exe" -applaunch 440 -textmode -noshaderapi -nosound -nopreload -novid -noipx -nojoy

gonna try that now sec

Quoted from chodz

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u got same screen when pressing on “General” ?

its fixed now, i did what chris said

Quoted from Destrutor

I set this up, but my client disconnects from servers after 5 mins or so

n0va was getting this, it seems to be that some idle servers don’t like it (no idea why).

Just use 85.236.102.3:27015.

Quoted from octochris

[…]
18:52 – [FB] Chris the Medical Marvel: oh btw
18:52 – [FB] Chris the Medical Marvel: if you get beeps (i haven’t recently, think valve fixed it)
18:53 – [FB] Chris the Medical Marvel: type in run
18:53 – [FB] Chris the Medical Marvel: “net stop beep”
18:53 – [FB] Chris the Medical Marvel: without quotes

whats the cause of these beeps? cause if i were to get them i would probably say that it was the bios sending out a temp warning.

Quoted from toogyboogy

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whats the cause of these beeps? cause if i were to get them i would probably say that it was the bios sending out a temp warning.

it is caused by characters which are outside the primary ascii set — i’d imagine this is because textmode is used by devs and they flag errors with special characters or something

EDIT: also don’t worry you will still get BIOS beeps after you do “net stop beep” because this only stops the beep driver (although for some reason windows recognises it as a service, which it really isn’t)

if you want to start the beep driver again just do “net start beep” afterward, it will automatically start up when you restart your computer anyway, this just disables it for the session.

Quoted from lagi

I love you Chris

i think you might be the only person that does on the entirety of these forums