Comments on: Team Fortress 2 on Vista crashes on map change, “Can’t load lump x, allocation of x bytes failed! Engine Error”

By: blazer

blazer — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:01:59 +0000

Well ive have vista SP2 for some time and have all the latest patches (well all those provided by Windows update anyway) and I’m still getting this problem. Worked fine before, I’m sure it started happening when Steam did a major update to their interface and perhaps this is now having issues with certain components of Windows. Of course i could be talking a load of *^”£!

By: Gravity Cat

Gravity Cat — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:46:33 +0000

yeh i get it on Garrys Mod as well…and i got windows 7..any ideas? i dont usaly check my emails or anything so if u wanna reply just add me on steam as jechet10…even tho ill show up as gravity cat.

By: bigKb0y

bigKb0y — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:24:57 +0000

I am getting this same error with Team Fortress 2 and I am using Windows XP. It isn’t just a Windows Vista problem. Does anybody know what we can do on Windows XP?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:38:57 +0000

I’m having the same problem accept it is happening with Garry’s Mod and I run on XP.

By: Sprout

Sprout — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:02:44 +0000

This patch is included in Vista Service Pack 1 – which has been out for some time. If you’ve already got Vista up-to-date, you’ll get the message that the update doesn’t apply to your system – because it’s already installed.

I’m in the same boat – crashing frequently between map changes, server changes – ALL related to Vista. MS does a nice spin-job about “some games” having problems with a “modern OS” in their posting on this (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105), but it’s clearly a Vista issue, and their hack, er, “patch”, doesn’t resolve it for everybody unfortunately.

You’ll especially see this if you have a video card with a large amount of VRAM – I never had the issue until moving to a 1GB 4870 – my older card with 256MB had no issues.

By: the masked anon

the masked anon — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:43:55 +0000

I have this problem but i DONT HAVE VISTA! what do i do!?!?!

By: jayL

jayL — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:52:55 +0000

umm, ok i’ve been having this problem for some time now also, i tried installing the update but it just says “The update does not apply to your system”, and yes i downloaded the right version which is 64bit. any help?

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:00:18 +0000

Thank you!!! so helpful, been having this issue for weekds now.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:46:47 +0000

I have the same problem….microsoft support doesn´t reply steam doesn´t know an aswer….if somebody knows what do to….

“This does not apply to your system” OMG IT`S KILLING MEH

By: Beibin

Beibin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:24:41 +0000

I’m also having the ‘does not apply to this system’ problem…

What should I do?