Thread: Help Meh!

Basically, While in TF2, at all times, there is a message in the top right hand corner in red writing saying
"WARNING: OS Paged Pool Memory Low". After a while (10-15 mins) the game starts mis rendering ( players turning black and metallic) and eventually the game will close completely. Without a warning or even the "hl2.exe has encountered a problem" it just quits and i end up on my desktop.

I'm assuming it has to do with my RAM, but not sure...here's what i'm running on:

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.8GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Hard Drive: 300 GB
Video Card: RADEON 9200 SE Family (Microsoft Corporation)
Sound Card: Realtek AC97 Audio
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)

Originally Posted by the Micronaut

PF usage says 365-370 mb in the box on the far left.

Physical memory is giving me numbers in between these:
Total 1047792
Available 541000 - 544000
System Cache 533000 - 534000

Kernel Memory:
Total 111120 - 111140
Paged 92330 - 92350
Nonpaged 18808

^^ That is what shows up in: task manager > performance tab
BEFORE running TF2

hope the info helps

-Micronaut

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_...hp?p_faqid=150

In practice, we have found that certain anti-virus applications allocate a large amount of paged pool memory that cannot be freed until the anti-virus software is fully uninstalled from the system. AVG 7.x, Norton/Symantec and NOD32 have been identified as anti-virus packages that allocate large amounts of paged pool memory and directly interfere with Source engine games. If disabling these applications does not help with the issue, you may want to consider uninstalling the anti-virus application to diagnose the cause of the crash.

and good god man upgrade

Originally Posted by jason_jinx

and good god man upgrade

thinking bout it...

and I've fully uninstalled my anti virus/firewall...still getting the message & problems