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Yeah, I remember when I was working on the old Macintosh 512E, there was no hard drive, and we had low-density floppy disks (800K) which contained the operating system, and Microsoft Works, and had space left over for documents.

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runs fine on my laptop with 128mb

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I get this error regularly also. Have gotten it on all three of my systems (laptop, two workstations). Seems to be no ryhme or reason either. Only thing I noticed is it seems to always happen after 50+ turns or after I have left the game open for 3 or 4 days (even if not playing it). Have emailed Malfador a couple times about it but nothing. Sadly its not reproducible either. You can reload from a previous save and works just fine. Only suggestion I have for people getting this error is set your game to auto-save EVERY TURN!! This way you can always reload to your current turn after getting the error.

Question for Wilhil, do you manage your own swap file (e.g. hard set the swap or disable it) or let windows do it for you?

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Windows does it automatically, and you said it perfectly, It just happens whenever! no way to guess, it just happens!

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I get it too. Can't figure it out, and its cost me two games already. Autosave is now on every turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Slick would have to mention age and punchcards.

half-hours waits for a kepunch machine...
overnight waits to see if there were any errors...
mumble, mumble...

Er...no out of memory errors here...mumble...

[ March 28, 2004, 13:20: Message edited by: Cipher7071 ]

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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
oh, ok. i think i first played se4 with 256M, too.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I have run on 192M of memory w/o trouble I now have 256 installed.

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Originally posted by Slick:
Off topic blurb...

The funny thing is that I actually have had and worked on machines at or lower than 256K RAM. There were some pretty good games with pretty good graphics in the 1980's on my old Commodore 64 (64K ram). I'm not even going to mention a 20K computer I used to have. I'm sure showing my age. If there is one thing I have noticed with computers is that software is now bloatware. The size of software grows with the size of storage, but the software does not get proportionally that much better. There is no regard for software size and consumers don't make it an issue either; they just buy bigger and faster harddrives. I can remember using word processing software that was literally MILLIONS of times smaller in file size (KB vs GB; after adding up all those dll's and such, it's easy to be over a GB of execuatables) than current software and I somehow managed to pump out paper with it; but it was not MILLIONS of times less capable. I remember optimizing programs to save BYTES here and there in order to squeeze more lines of program into the machine. We'll save the punch-card stories for another time. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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So as to not hijack this thread, is there anyone else who is experiencing out of memory errors? And what was the cause/fix? I sure don't know what is causing this problem.

Slick.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I have a small palm top with 256K to run with I run a smaller ver of Word and Excel on it.
(punch cards) in the mil we had a computer that you programed with firing data off a paper tape. you could do the numbers faster by hand (one site at a time)