Why does this keep happening to me???

[NanoSquid]

[IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/aoswv8.png[/IMG]

I've been getting this crash to desktop bug all day, out of the clear blue-- I've never had it happen before, and haven't changed any clientside files between yesterday and today--- that I know of, anyway. Does anyone know why this is happening, and/or how I can fix it? I can't even play--sometimes it cuts off a minute after a map loads, sometimes as soon as the map loads. It's driving me insane :frown:

[editline]25th October 2010[/editline]

Yes, I validated game files

[Corndog Ninja]

I don't know what to do. Have you Google'd it? Usually my first response.

[Sparkwire]

Your ram is fried.

[NanoSquid]

[QUOTE=Sparkwire;25646354]Your ram is fried.[/QUOTE]

:ohdear: Really?

[cs_bunny]

That happens to me too sometimes.

[TentuZero]

Try using the command -high?

Close all other unnecessary programs running?

Or you could switch to dx80 mode.

[NanoSquid]

[QUOTE=TentuZero;25646466]Try using the command -high?

Close all other unnecessary programs running?

Or you could switch to dx80 mode.[/QUOTE]

I have a 4 gigs of RAM, a GTX260 and a quad core processor OC'd at 3.03 GHz.
[i]I will [u]not[/u] stoop to dx80.[/i][/pretentious]

[editline]25th October 2010[/editline]

I'm gonna dust out my case and try again.

[That Deer]

I keep running out of Page Pool memory. I even turned off my security, closed EVERYTHING and it still crashes on me, even with some of the lowest settings. It's unplayable anymore :frown:

[TentuZero]

[QUOTE=NanoSquid;25646577]I have a 4 gigs of RAM, a GTX260 and a quad core processor OC'd at 3.03 GHz.
[i]I will [u]not[/u] stoop to dx80.[/i][/pretentious]

[editline]25th October 2010[/editline]

I'm gonna dust out my case and try again.[/QUOTE]

:trashbear:

@: Eva: could be something running that's hogging up your memory...look at your task manager to see whats taking memory...also do a spyware/viral check just in case.

[That Deer]

[QUOTE=TentuZero;25646629]:trashbear:

@: Eva: could be something running that's hogging up your memory...look at your task manager to see whats taking memory...also do a spyware/viral check just in case.[/QUOTE]

Just sweeped it yesterday. And the other thing hogging up memory is Steam and really important settings that I can't end without fucking something else.

[Vaught]

Usually happens when you have skins lying around that the game doesn't agree with.

[Smashman]

This may seem obvious, but have you tried restarting?

[NanoSquid]

Back. I didn't have one of those gas dusters so I just took a bendy straw and blew into it really hard.

Well, old Compy sure [i]booted[/i] faster. Lets see if it helped any.

[editline]25th October 2010[/editline]

Nope. :sigh:

[Mario583]

[QUOTE=NanoSquid;25646235][img_thumb]http://i56.tinypic.com/aoswv8.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
I KNEW Nucleus was no fucking good! :kratos:

[NanoSquid]

[IMG]http://i53.tinypic.com/21c5dlv.png[/IMG]

:geno:

[Sharkle_Bunwich]

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;25646625]I keep running out of Page Pool memory. I even turned off my security, closed EVERYTHING and it still crashes on me, even with some of the lowest settings. It's unplayable anymore :frown:[/QUOTE]

Do you use Trend Micro.

[Psycommu]

Yeah, that is most likely your RAM causing the problem.

It's having major problems reading/writing memory into it.

Open up your case, Take out every stick of RAM (While off!!) And add one stick back in at a time. Boot it up after you put a stick in, and see if the problem persists. If you put a certain stick of RAM back in and the problem comes back, that particular stick of RAM is going bad.
...
I word things terribly. Sorry.

[Sauronvoldemort]

Try this first [url]https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1274-UOHK-5653[/url] above everything else.

[Hobo on Fire!]

Alternatively, you can run a program called [url=http://www.memtest.org/]Memtest86+[/url] to run a series of hardware tests to determine if any of the memory sticks are faulty.

[Eila]

[QUOTE=Hobo on Fire!;25652394]Alternatively, you can run a program called [url=http://www.memtest.org/]Memtest86+[/url] to run a series of hardware tests to determine if any of the memory sticks are faulty.[/QUOTE]

Offtopic.

Hobo! Hello! I am Yukarimobile on Steam! I didnt know you were on Fp?

[DatWut?]

Isn't this XP related? I think I heard that somewhere that TF2 isn't running very good on XP.

[NuckChorris]

As soon as I got my Windows 7 this stopped happening
It's an XP bug most likely

[Recurracy]

[QUOTE=NuckChorris;25656120]As soon as I got my Windows 7 this stopped happening
It's an XP bug most likely[/QUOTE]
It's not happening to me. I think it's safe to say it's a hardware problem.

[Smashman]

I just started getting this. I'm XP too. :frown:

[Skunky]

OF COURSE! This is Valve's way for saying: Get Windows 7, bitch!

[kuhbwekduhbweco]

I told you about the memory leaks, bro, I told you, dog.

[Blackbird88]

[QUOTE=JurajIsNotPirat;25658697]I told you about the memory leaks, bro, I told you, dog.[/QUOTE]

I was worried why it took so long for this to appear.

[Fat White Lump]

I get that on my XP partition but not my Windows 7 partition.

[CrazyBaconLegs]

I have never had this problem, I use XP. It's even a fairly dated computer.

[Smashman]

I fixed mine by just deleting a few mods that I installed.