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I've been getting this error for a while now, and it is really getting on my nerves. If I have everything on the lowest settings possible, with sound turned off, I am able to play for a few hours. But it will still crash randomly and give me an error message. The error is as follows:


Error: Material "engine/rendermodelshadow" : proxy "ShadowModel" unable to initialize!
SSE code is enabled
SSE2 code is disabled
3DNow code is enabled
MMX code is enabled
Exe version 0.27.0 (protocol 1)
Build: Oct 6 2004 21:56:00 (409)
couldn't exec user.cfg
File "<string>", line 1
vchar_skip_intro "1"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Material "debug/debuglightmap":
No render states in shader "LightmappedGeneric_DX8"
Material "debug/debuglightmapzbuffer":
No render states in shader "LightmappedGeneric_DX8"
Error: Material "engine/rendermodelshadow" : proxy "ShadowModel" unable to initialize!

I would truly apreciate any help I am given. And before anyone asks, I have reinstalled the game three times. I have tried old drivers, and I have well over the minimum REQs for playing the game.