Hello; I know i got this exception when there is no room avaliable...but my app is allocating a few megs, and for sure there is more avaliable memory...im using VS 2003, in debug multithread mode (althoug i use threads only for sounds, not being loaded any in this case), and when i alocate a big chunk at beggining, it does not throw this exception...could it be happening due to fragmentation or bad ompiler configuration, or even its a matter of re-install VS? Thanks!

It may be due to heap corruption. Check to make sure you don't have any buffer overruns in your program or any other non-kosher pointer mixups.

Got it...overrun...but it wasnt my fault, the code was developed by my coworker :-( ...thanks!

For later reference, std::bad_alloc::what() might also give some human readable explanation of what went wrong, depending on implementation.