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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / October 2006Episode One will not load! "Memory could not be read"
Hi, New to the newsgroup and hoping someone can help me out. I downloaded Half-Life 2: Episode One as soon as it was available, but I've never managed to get it run. As it tries to load the menu, it crashes and gives the message "Error: The Instruction at 0x####### referenced memory at 0x####### The memory could not be read" as detailed at http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php ?p_faqid=278&p_created=1100821608&p_sid=Fq5MH*ii&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnR fYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0yOTImcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZ wX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1 I've exhausted every suggested solution on those pages: Sound, video and system board BIOS updated No overclocking Removed one of my two RAM modules Ran various launch options, such as '-nosound -windowed' I also use two SATA drives in RAID for my games, so I tried moving the Steam directory to a seperate single drive and it still failed. What's frustrating is that I haven't had a single problem with this PC running anything else, including Half-Life 2 and Lost Coast. I built it about 8 months ago and it runs like a dream. Maybe someone knows of a basic incompatibility, so this is my specification: Asus A8N-SLI SE motherboard Athlon 64 3200 2x 3200 512mb Corsair RAM module 160gb SATA primary hard drive 2x 40gb SATA drives in RAID Creative Audigy 4 sound card XFX Nvidia GeForce 6800GS PCI-E graphics card My patience has now expired! Any suggestions? Jon > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Jon I have this occasionally and a retry usually gets it working. Have you tried 'everything' suggested on that page? i.e. have you verified the GCF cache? When you moved the Steam files did you delete the clientregistry.blob file? > I have this occasionally and a retry usually gets it working. Have you > tried 'everything' suggested on that page? i.e. have you verified the > GCF cache? > > When you moved the Steam files did you delete the clientregistry.blob file? I did. One of the suggestions was deleting everything in the Steam folder, apart from the exe and SteamApps folder. I've done the verify a couple of times now. I find it interesting that you've had it occasionally. That tells me that I have a pretty fundamental problem here. Jon >> I have this occasionally and a retry usually gets it working. Have >> you tried 'everything' suggested on that page? i.e. have you verified [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I find it interesting that you've had it occasionally. That tells me > that I have a pretty fundamental problem here. Thinking about it I don't recall seeing it since verifying my Windows files (I'm running XP Pro) through cmd and scannow... > Thinking about it I don't recall seeing it since verifying my Windows > files (I'm running XP Pro) through cmd and scannow... I tried that too! >> Thinking about it I don't recall seeing it since verifying my Windows >> files (I'm running XP Pro) through cmd and scannow... > > I tried that too! Performance test? steam://support/?Issues=Performance* >>> Thinking about it I don't recall seeing it since verifying my Windows >>> files (I'm running XP Pro) through cmd and scannow... [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > steam://support/?Issues=Performance* Plus have you looked at event/application logs etc for clues? For example... HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech >> Performance test? >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&sd=tech Performance test is clean, and there's nothing useful in the event viewer; I'm dealing with a memory error, so XP's response is to just repeat the message. |
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