Give this a shot.
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=131328
It's been quite helpful to a lot of people.
By the way, with Vista, you would never have this problem. ;)
-Richard Eid
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Ook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've used XP64 for a long time, and it is rock solid. Very few things don't
> work with XP64.
>
> TF2 uses a ton of paged pool. It and Steam both use a lot of GDI objects.
> Tsk tsk tsk, Valve.
>
> Mirc and winamp and AVG don't use squat for resources. As much as resource
> pigs Steam and hl2.exe might be, they still don't use enough to cause
> problems. I can start TF2 with mirc, avg, and winamp running. And a slew of
> other things as well.
>
> Something else is wrong. I would suggest the OP open up task manager, add
> Paged Pool and non-paged pool to the sensor list, and see what is using
> resources.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list"
> <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:07 AM
> 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).
> >
> > Saint K. wrote:
> >> Your so god damn funny... I wish we had more people like you on this
> >> list.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:09 PM
> >> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> >> Subject: Re: [hlds] Client crash question
> >>
> >> dont run winamp!
> >>
> >> On 9/30/08, Saint K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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