Saint,
You might try manually forcing WINAMP onto one specific core / affinity
and perhaps try setting the priority to below normal and see if that helps.
You might be seeing some sort of codec conflict too, if you have a custom
codec pack installed, try temporarily uninstalling it and see if that helps.
AVG has been flagged in the past as a problem, you might try one of the
other free AVG programs - antivir from Avira has been getting some good
reports.
You get links / downloads to most of the free A/V programs in my toolkit:
http://qsextreme.com/qs_toolkit
I have an XP64 test system here, if I get a chance I'll see if I can
recreate the crash.
qUiCkSiLvEr
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Saint K."
To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'"
<hlds@list.valvesoftware.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [hlds] Client crash question
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I've already ran memtests, and all report being O.K.
>
> I also tried to increase my virtual memory, but that hasn't helped either.
>
> Besides Winamp, pretty much nothing is running at the moment I start TF2.
> The only things which are turned on are AVG (which is low on resources),
> mIRC and winamp.
>
> I could imagine something like this occurs on a heavy loaded machine, but
> this one is pretty much idle when the game is started.
>
> Cheers,
> ==================
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthal
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:08 PM
> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> Subject: Re: [hlds] Client crash question
>
> XP x64 is notoriously buggy. Most things just don't work well in it.
>
> The Paged Pool Memory error is a common bug. If it happens less with
> LESS RAM, I'd run error checks on your memory. It could be that some of
> the sticks are bad, or are going bad.
>
> You may also want to increase the size of your virtual memory, and close
> any programs that may be memory hogs (Firefox, IE, virus scanners, etc).
>
>>====================
>> On 9/30/08, Saint K. wrote:
>>> Anyone ells here experiencing the most utterly annoying bug that when
>>> you
>>> have winamp playing, and you try to join a TF2 game, you get 75% of the
>> time
>>
>>> a crash to desktop with some message 'running out of pool page memory'
>> with
>>
>>> some dodgy link to a steam website with a fix (which doesn't work).
>>> This only seems to happen on windows XP x64, on my 32bit install these
>>> problems are not present. Also when running on 2GB instead of 4GB the
>>>
>> error happens a lot less.
>>>
>>> I've mailed VALVe about it a couple of times, but I get no response, so
>>> I
>>> thought I'd drop the question in here to see if anyone knows a fix other
>>> then the 'fix' on the steam page (some reg edit).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
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