Gettings errors, this mean its the ram?

[mpegripper]

Counter strike source has been crashing for me with this message:


Faulting application hl2.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module datacache.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00008a27

i thought this meant that the ram is bad, but i ram memtest and it was fine.


could it be my install of counter strike, should i uninstall steam and reinstall it?


any ideas?

TIA

 

[D3v1an7]

Could be a bug in the game or a bad install. I would first check to see if there are any updates, if not, wipe it out and start over clean.

Also, are you running other apps at the same time as HL2? One of those other apps could be hard coded to use a specific memory address that just so happens to be what HL2 is trying to use also.

Maybe it's just coincidence, but I don't think that version number is correct. 0.0.0.0 doesn't look legit to me. The file could be corrupt.

 

[Xahok]

Same type of error happend to me when I tryed to run HL2 games... Never found the solution mainly because I could run them well anyway.

 

[mpegripper]

are you on a dual core?

i read somewhere about the possibility of a dual core, where i would just need to apply the microsoft fix...

don't see how but its worth a try

 

[BBA]

If it is memory, and the mem buss is OC'd, I would back off the OC a little to see if the problems go away.