Team Fortress 2

[Dissolution]

Anyone else here plays TF2?

I have no idea why, but previously, I'd be playing TF2 for a bit, then the game would minimize itself, or defocus. sometimes I'm able to at-tab back into the game after a few minutes, and other times the game just stops responding.

So. Read on the net it might be that I didn't have enough RAM, so I went out and got 2GB more. (Had 2, now 4gb.)

Now, the game crashed out with a 'hl2 needs to close' type of error.

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: hl2.exe

Application Version: 0.0.0.0

Application Timestamp: 470c11ae

Fault Module Name: StackHash_fd00

Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0

Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 00000000

OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: fd00

Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

Additional Information 3: fd00

Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

Anyone knows how I can fix this? The game is unplayable now. Could it be the RAM? I'm on Vista Ultimate, if it helps.

[BigJobs]

First try disabling User Account Control; from memory..

1. Start > Start Search > type in MSCONFIG; press enter > in System Information window click TOOLS tab

2. Select "disable user account control" (or something similar); then click the LAUNCH button

3. close all windows, and reboot and test game

Otherwise disable Data Execution Prevention; do this (again from memory)

1. Start > Programs > accessories > right click COMMAND PROMPT and select "run as administrator"

2. in the black command window type this command and press enter

bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff

3. Close all windows, reboot and test the game now

Edited July 11, 2008 by BigJobs

[Simmo]

Had something similar happening with Portal on Vista.

Try this.

Control Panel > System And Maintenance > System > Advanced System Settings > On the Advanced tab go to setting under Performance then Data Execution Prevention.

Set it to "Turn on DEP for essential windows programs and services only"

[phazey]

What are your Launch Options ?

[Dissolution]

Hi all, thanks for the replies.

I'm somewhat embarrassed to find the solution to my problems. Apparently, while plugging my new RAM in, I dislodged one of my old RAM sticks slightly. Also, from severe OC'ing, the memory on my graphics card is burning out.

Realigned my RAM, underclocked my graphic card's memory a tad, and now everything works fine again.