yesterday something very stranges did happen to my pc. i was testing for the 3th time my second sp-map. this second map was not so different form my first hl2 sp-map, but for some odd reson my pc was frozen. the last sound that was played did keep repeating in a very short sound. i couldn't do anything and only ctlr+alt+del could get me out of there. i controled the map in the editor for errors but there where none. so i tried to play the map again but after just 1 or 2 minutes the same thing did happen and now even ctrl+alt+del could get me out of there. the only thing left to do was to restart my computer but after doing this my windos xp installation was damaged and only by installing windows xp again with all my drivers etc was it possible to use my computer again. i could not even start windows in safe mode, the message i became was that windows was damaged!
i know, this sounds to strange for words but it is the trueth. i have spent the hole day today to do so.
now i'm not the only one, a friedn of mine, baltic.forever had the same problem with a sp-map of him, he did write about it;
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It's strange that you were having problems with your screen freezing, because I was having the same problems with my HL2 test map. It would play for a few seconds and then would freeze. I could hear a short sound coming from the speakers just after the screen froze. The problem was that the game was trying to access memory that it couldn’t read. Windows would sometimes report that the graphics drivers caused the freeze and that I should obtain the latest drivers, but I already had the latest drivers installed. I eventually fixed the problem by changing some of the ai’s into spawners.
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in my first sp-map i have the same amount of npc's as in my second sp map, and i never had any trouble with playing the first sp-map.

are there more people who have this trouble, or does anybody have any suggestion?

leon

Strange of you to say that, because something similar happened to me. I had HL2 minimized while working in hammer, then when tabbing back in, everything froze.
Mouse stoped working and everything.

I also got a wierd repeting sound, but it sounded like it came from inside my computer, and not the speakers.
I think it was my harddrive doing some funky dance or something, it sounded like "Kalycka-lyck-a-lyck-a-lyck-a-lyck-a-lyck"

And it has happened once or twice before... (also during hl2 I _think_).

funny how you did describe that sound, could nearly hear it myself. but to get serious, the problem is happening with more people. can you remember what kind of map you where playing, a custom map or a original one? with us it was a custom sp-map, and with both it happend after placing a few npc's. although i also have to say that i didn't had the problem with my fisrt sp-map, and there where the same amount of npc's in.

are there more people who have this problem?

leon

Yes, it was my own SP map... I also had some grafical errors, wierd water textures and stuff that caused the game to crash allot while tabing in and out.

The reason we are receiving these memory errors could be a bug in the game code, I really don’t think it has anything to do with bad mapping. You can take a look at the following links from Steam.

Link 1

Link2

You will also find a link to a thread made by other people having a similar problem which is 94 pages long. For some reason the thread was CLOSED last year so no one could post to it. They also have the option to “search” for a topic turned off.

I just wonder what they DON’T want us to know.

Do they have a help topic for when my computer suddenly reboots while playing Garry's Mod?
(I have 1024mb ram, so it's not a memory problem, and I aint doing near as complicated stuff as I've seen screenshots of, when my computer decides to reboot)

This is probably offtopic.