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[SuHh]

everytime i try to load up css... i get this message it says

"engine error" -- and then proceeds to say
"failed to lock vertex buffer in CMeshDX8::LockVertexBuffer"

somebody help me out please?

thanks

[Mike2077]

Can't you like, google it?

[Raccoon00]

or just PM Shadow?

[SuHh]

im not really at the computer right now... and i hoped that posting this here... i could come back later with a simple response that would help me quickly fix it

my drivers are also updated so im confused at whats goin on

Edited by SuHh, 10 August 2007 - 03:42 PM.

[Link2086]

I don't know if this will help, but every so often, I'll be playing CSS and I'll have it crash on me with that same "vertex buffer" error. I usually just restart steam and the like and it seems to work.

I Googled it, and here's what I got:

Contacting Valve technical support... they bluntly tell me that it is because I have a DVD writer on my laptop... ?"#$%&' (meaning that HL2 could not be played on most of the new laptops available now????)... what a crap....
http://www.halflife2...ead.php?t=60382

Someone else says this, though, which would make a bit of sense:

the error will occur when you Alt+Tab to switch between windows while playing a game and your machine is unable to allocate sufficient memory to render graphics when you switch back to your game window.

But, I fixed my issue. The problem was the card I had did not have enough Vertex Pipelines, therefore, since DX8 is rendered Hardware side, unlike DX9 (which is software) it could not lock the buffers. Only way to fix it for me was to get a new card.

It basically seems like it's a DirectX issue, but I'm not sure what else to say beyond that...