Memory Read Error after months of play!!

[just_hamish]

My CS has been playin perfectly for months. Suddenly after a couple of hours play the other day the game crashed. It then persisted to crash every time i loaded up the game. I can never play for more than a few seconds. Heres the error message..

the instruction at 0x2418bfd5 referanced memory at 0x00bc9530 the memory could not be read

I appreciate this error is a common one, but I cant find a good answer and I do not understand why it should suddenly occur now.

I have played for two days since the last small update, so I cant see it being the update...
maybe im wrong...

 

[just_hamish]

iv sorted it now so no worrys..

 

[63]

how did you do that?

 

[DuffBeer]

I had the same issues after the most recent update. Actually it doesn't seem to be directly update-related. It turned out to be too high display settings. I disabled AA, reduced AF to 4x and turned my resolution back to 1024x768 and the 'memory could not be read' error never showed up again.

Of course there are a million solutions to this memory error, so I guess everyone has to find their individual solution.

 

[The Hulk]

I had this error during the beta phase - thought it was a bug - even after many updates, it kept happening. I got a shareware memory tester and found my memory to be bad - OK for normal Windows operations, but problems in CS:S and DOOM3. Changed the memory for soem Corsair XMS and have not had a problem since!