Strange Steam Stuff

[Maximius]

Ok, Im a Team Fortress Classic veteran, and I recently dl'ed Steam in order to play. So for about a week I was getting this strange error message, actually a warning which said that Steam was attempting to operate a "virtual address" or some such thing out of my registry. I know it was the registry cause it said its doing whatever it is doing at registry address XXXXXXXX. What the fuck is Steam doing to my shit? I wish I had the note I wrote with the complete message but its at home.

[sparhawk]

What have virtual adresses and registry in common? Nothing. Virtual Adresses are a CPU thing while registry is a Windows thing.

[Maximius]

What have virtual adresses and registry in common? Nothing. Virtual Adresses are a CPU thing while registry is a Windows thing.

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Im probably getting the text of the message incorrect. Ill try to find where I wrote it down at home.

[sparhawk]

Form the little you gave I can only speculate that it said something like an error when using a virtual adress X while accessing the registry key Y. That might make sense. Otherwise the errormessage should help.

[Demigod]

does this help?

    steam.exe (main exception): Win32 StructuredException at 0163048B: Attempt to write to virtual address 2439276314 without appropriate access rights.

 

 

    STEAM.EXE - APPLICATION ERROR

    The instruction at "0x1000ecd" referenced memory at "0x016470c0." The memory could not be "read."

 

The solution is simple - simply browse to your Steam folder (usually c:\program files\steam) and delete the file "ClientRegistry.blob". Restart Steam and it should work fine.

[sparhawk]

Did you try what it says there? If this error persist I would say it is either a bug with Steam, or your memory is defect. If this happens with other apps as well it may be the hardware. In that case it sometimes helps when you remove all cards and memory and reinsert it.

[Maximius]

Thats the beast right there, Ill try that when I get home. I havent seen it in a while so maybe it has been corrected with a Steam Update but Ill check anyway. It has not happened for any other apps.

 

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