Hello.
I seem to be having a lot of Half-Life 2 crashes today that I never had
before. I am currently in Entanglement level right now. I already had
like five HL2 crashes with this exact error within an hour:
HALF-LIFE 2: hl2.exe -- Application Error
The instruction at "0x241f94b7" referenced memory at "0x0107f5c0". The
memory could not be "read"...
What's wrong? It was fine last weekend in Nova Prospekt level. I have no
problems with other games like DOOM 3, World of Warcraft, Battlefield
1942, etc. I also did the validation on HL2 cache files as noted on
http://steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&archive=yes&id=351 and didn't
get any messages. I assume that it was OK.
You can see my detailed gaming box specifications on
http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/computers.txt ... I have the
latest drivers as well. I wonder if the last Steam update caused this
since I updated it a few days ago.
Thank you in advance. :)

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This is interesting. So far, Half-Life 2 hasn't crashed with anisotropic
and FSAA off in ATI Radeon 9800's 3D tab properties. I did leave FSAA 2X
enabled in the game though. So far, so good but it is still early to
conclude this test. My testing continues...
In alt.games.half-life2 ANTant@zimage.com wrote:
> Hello.
> I seem to be having a lot of Half-Life 2 crashes today that I never had
> before. I am currently in Entanglement level right now. I already had
> like five HL2 crashes with this exact error within an hour:
> HALF-LIFE 2: hl2.exe -- Application Error
> The instruction at "0x241f94b7" referenced memory at "0x0107f5c0". The
> memory could not be "read"...
> What's wrong? It was fine last weekend in Nova Prospekt level. I have no
> problems with other games like DOOM 3, World of Warcraft, Battlefield
> 1942, etc. I also did the validation on HL2 cache files as noted on
> http://steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&archive=yes&id=351 and didn't
> get any messages. I assume that it was OK.
> You can see my detailed gaming box specifications on
> http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/computers.txt ... I have the
> latest drivers as well. I wonder if the last Steam update caused this
> since I updated it a few days ago.
> Thank you in advance. :)

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