TF2 Menu crashing

[thehum]

I have a friend who has a toshiba M105 with Steam/TF2 installed. We can get to the in game menu but whenever we click on any of the buttons the game crashes with an hl2.exe application error:

"The Instruction at 0x00010103 ereferenced memory at '0x0a221564'. The memory could not be written.

system specs:
XPMCE Pro SP3
CPU: Intel T2300 1.66ghz
GPU: Intel GMA 950 128mb Driver ver 6.14.0010.4926
1gb ram
DX9.0c

We've tried completely uninstalling/reinstalling steam+TF2. Reinstalled graphics driver files. Game is completely updated. There is no DMX file to delete. Does anyone else encounter this problem. Any ideas for a fix? Thanks.

 

[tobiath]

it sounds like a problem with your RAM (thats what the error code given is about). Run memtest and see if it finds anything

 

[simon741]

Ive had this too. All I did was log out of steam and then back in again. make sure no program are running in the background

 

[ep3w]

Source games seem to sometimes have issues with random errors that can be hard to track down. I had something similar to that and all I did to fix it was disable the steam community in-game. Its under the settings in steam, its worth a shot to see if it works.

 

[Term-X]

When I had that problem, I just renamed my old playerstats.dmx file to .bak. It was inside the steam.../.../tf2.../tf whatever folder. I guess the fact that it's missing for you and doesn't want to regenerate itself could be the issue.

 

[hophead]

I found a helpful solution here:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=437678&topic=44996713

The first suggestion in the first post.