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Recently I have been getting very frequent crashes. It always crashes on the the “message of the day” screen just as you join the server.

8/10 times it just says “hl2.exe has stopped working”.

Some times its says “failed to lock vertex buffer in cmesh dx8:lock vertex buffer”.

other times it says “Engine Error!- Can’t load lump xxxx ,allocation of xxxxx bytes failed.”

Things I have tried:

Increasing the paged pool memory cache

http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-vista/how-to-increase-the-file-system-memory-cache-in-vista2003/

Turning on/off multicore support. Turning off anti virus. Verifying local content, defrag tf2 folder etc.

I have vista 64, 4 megs ram, q6600, 8800 gtx.

Any help would be great as its really annoying constantly crashing. I have .mdmp files but have no idea how to read them, I found this link though.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Using_mdmp_files

Supposedly the error is some thing to do with the way vista handles memory. I thought I had fixed it with this

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105

…. but its part of the service packs and I already had it patched.

I sometimes crash on the server load screen, usually just before the message changes to ‘sending client info’. My whole PC just freezes up, no idea why.

had the same problem with freight, m0res fps config fixed it for me