I am having a couple problems with Team Fortress 2. First, I can be playing from any amount of time, from 5 to 30 minutes or more, and I get an error message in red in the top right corner: "Warning: OS Memory Page File Low" or something similar to that (the wording might not be right). I got this same error on my old computer, so the first thing I did on my new PC was to up the paging file to the max (3072mb). Doesn't help.

Secondly, the game freezes almost every time I play. I notice it that it happens a lot when I'm in water, so I tried turning down the reflections options in the video settings. The game froze again about five minutes ago when I used my uber charge, so I really have no idea what's going on. When it freezes, it loops about half a second of whatever sound was going at the time. The only way I can get out of it is to restart my computer.

I had these exact same problems on my old computer, but there are no shared parts between them. I've got a gig of RAM and an ATI x1300 pro video card, so the only thing I can think of is maybe there's a problem with the installation of the files. Halp!

12/16/2007 5:01:42 PM

After I dropped my hard drive, I got that exact same message, replaced the hard drive and it was fine.

12/16/2007 6:56:31 PM

the error is Paged Pool Memory Low

I've read that some antivirus scanners eat up memory, that may be your problem, there is a lot of info on the steam forums about it

12/16/2007 8:52:07 PM

^^It's a brand new hard drive.

^Thanks, I'll check it out.

12/16/2007 8:54:48 PM

do you have problems with any of the other orange box games? (i assume you have the orange box)
have you reinstalled it at all?

12/17/2007 12:20:34 AM

I have no problems with any of the OB games. I can run HL2 and Portal both at the highest settings; it's only with TF2 that I have issues. I could try re-installing, but I just loaded it on last week so I don't know if that would do anything.

I'm going to order two more gigs of RAM tomorrow, hopefully that will fix it.

12/17/2007 1:53:48 AM

running XP or Vista?

12/17/2007 2:11:54 AM

hmm odd that your crapping out on TF2 I'm ona x800 witha gig of ram and 1.5 giig page file (page file supposedly works best if its (ram amount * 1.5)

12/17/2007 10:15:03 AM

^^XP.

12/17/2007 11:03:35 AM

it's your anti-virus

I had the paged pool memory issue...removed AVG...problem solved

[Edited on December 17, 2007 at 1:27 PM. Reason : .]

12/17/2007 1:26:53 PM

I already disabled the auto-protect (that's what the Steam help FAQ said), but it didn't solve the problem. Do you know if TF2 will conflict with all anti-virus programs, or just Norton?

12/17/2007 3:31:44 PM

Quote :

"removed AVG...problem solved"

judging by that response I'd say AVG was a problem too

12/17/2007 3:34:48 PM

^^I use the NCSU Symantec and it doesn't seem to cause a problem. Check and see if any programs are using a ridiculous amount of your memory in the task manager before you start playing maybe.

12/17/2007 5:31:15 PM

There's 2 versions that the school offers. Sav9 and Sav10. I put Sav10 on your computer. You might try using sav9 on there until you get more ram.

12/17/2007 5:52:38 PM