Annoying Client Crash

[Mr. Satans]

In the past week or two I have been experiencing a very annoying issue/problem in STEAM (No matter what game it is -- even Dedicated Server).

The cause seems to be random, although it occurs VERY VERY RARELY in Counter-Strike (Even thought I have hi-poly model replacements for nearly everything) but it occurs quite frequently in a Half-Life mod called Earth's Special Forces and not too often on my dedicated server (for ESF).

Here are screenshots of the error pop-ups:

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I have never recieved this error in the previous version of STEAM but it has been occuring in this most recent update.

Here are my specs
- Windows XP Home Edition (All Current Updates)
- 512 MB DDR (PC 2700) RAM
- AMD Athlon XP 2800+ Processor (2.083 GHz) with QuantiSpeed architecture
- NVIDIA nForce 2
- 180GB HD (Primary HD = 140 | Slave HD = 40) -> Virtual memory set on Windows Management (Both)
- NVIDIA GeForce4 MX Graphics (1 AGP 8x Slot Available) WITH LATEST DRIVERS (03/15/04)
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I have tried many things like defragging (with virtual memory disabled) & running a full scan disk session, as well as deleting Steam.dll and hl.exe & hlds.exe, & ClientRegistry.blob.

Also, there are no real "extra" background things running besides system things.

I scanned for viruses (Norton Anti-Virus 2004 - Updated), scanned for ad-ware/spy ware (Using both Ad-Aware & Spybot: Search & Destroy).

3-4 days ago I got a tool called WinXP Manager which I used to optomize things, clear out bad reg keys, unessesary files, etc...

My WINDOWS is set for performance, not visual eye candy mode or whatever

PLEASE HELP

 

[Rick]

Do you have my bots installed? if so is it version 3.x?

 

[Mr. Satans]

I edited my main post with more in-depth information.

 

[SailorAlea]

Perhaps you should try Eye-Candy mode.

 

[Mr. Satans]

Perhaps you should try Eye-Candy mode.

Ummmmmm no.

 

[SSJ2Kamehameha]

Hmm... Error on hl.exe? My suggestion... Replace the bad hl.exe with a new one. It might work because you said you deleted your hl.exe. :yes:

 

[Mr. Satans]

If you read my post, you would have known that I did that already.

 

[SSJ2Kamehameha]

Try deleting the half-life.gcf file.

 

[imported_Mystix]

Corruption while updating maybe? My guess, but really I have no clue. I wish I can help, since you've helped me so much in the past.

 

[Mr. Satans]

Try deleting the half-life.gcf file.

Didn't help.

 

[SS2GOKU]

im in ur clan ph34r and i have the same problem as u but i just got that problem today i went to ur server clan [ph34r] :cry: