soo starting yesterday everytime i open up my CSS it crashes and says memory cannot be read with a bunch of random numbers, i have been looking up a solution for this problem sence yesterday and cannot find one, i did find out it has something to do with my ram and maybe the timing on it or something, does anyone know how to fix this problem/ has anyone ever had this happen to them and what did you do to fix it??????? (please help me out im dying with out cs)

Hmm, never seen that problem before.

If you're overclocked I'd run everything back to stock settings. If that doesn't work, try reinstalling the game. If that doesn't work, reformat. If THAT doesn't work, it's definitely your power supply. luls

Any way you could get a screenshot of the error message?

everythings back to stock i reinstalled already found about 10 fixes online none of them worked im bout to format tonight i think :(...also why would a memory read error be my power supply??

Before going with reinstall run some memory testing. The basic one is disabling in BIOS (UEFI) quick memory test. Then try running http://www.memtest.org/ or http://www.memtest86.com/ or something-else.

I have actually had this problem before. Granted it was probably 4 years ago, but still...

First off, other than CSS saying you have a memory error, does anything else on your computer i.e. other games; videos; ect give you any memory errors?
I ask because when I use to get that message it ended up being a video card problem, not a memory stick problem.

try running windows updates incase your missing something, then go the the manufacturer's website for the video card you have and update your drivers.

then, I dont remember what their called exactly, but there are codes that look like '-s' that you can put in somewhere on steam and it wont load certain things when you launch CS. try looking into those

if all that doesnt work its defiantly your power supply

If the memory is underpowered, sometime bits can flip from a 1 to a 0 and that'll cause errors. Just run memtest for a few hours to see if they errors show up.

thank you everyone for helping me out , i ended up formatting and giving open heart surgery to my computer taking out the processor and everything else and moving it to another computer and it works..after trying EVERYTHING u said above and like 100 more things it was my only choice but it works now so thank you everyone for the help!

Glad you got it working dude.

It was likely either memory, the memory slots, or the memory controller (if your cpu doesn't have an on-die controller).

yeah i think it was either my motherboard or memory slots cuz i took the memory out of my computer and moved it to this one or possibly powersupply