Is more RAM what I need?

[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by Q:
What error message do you get?

I had similar problems and got "access violation at ....". The error was in my case not reproducible and if I repeated the turn from the Last savegame it usually didn't occur again. Therefore I did not report it to MM.
I am pretty sure that RAM has nothing to do with it (I have 288MB on my computer, which seems quite enough for Win98).

I had a similar (probably the same) problem but testing the Lastest Aquilaeian Version.
Really I don't know what happened... but playing Aquilaeian vs Narn, I got this kind of message around the turn 350.
The frist time believed that was a Win**** problem... then restarted and runned the turn manually, but the program crashed again.
Then, I restarted a new game between the same races, and got the problem around the turn 300.
I changed the Aquilaeian to human control, with all the AI ministers on. Runned the turn, but the game doesn't crashed!
Then, I sent the savegame and an image with the error to Aaron. I know he had the time to see the report, because he asked me what MOD I was using.
Finally, must say that running the Aquilaeian with the Pyrochette, sometimes I had the problem but sometimes not...
Hope Aaraon will have time to fix it.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by dumbluck:
I thought that more RAM was the cure for every computer problem! Isn't it?

If only it were that simple.

[Q]

Originally posted by dumbluck:
I thought that more RAM was the cure for every computer problem! Isn't it?

It is like money in your life: it solves a lot of problems but not some of the most important ones!
(Just had my philosophical 5 minutes of the day )

[Thermodyne]

In the days of Win95 and systems that came with 8 or 16 megs of ram, more ram fixed a lot of things. But it is not the cure-all that some would have you think. Adding ram will speed up a system that is paging a lot, but it will hardly ever fix a machine that is generating error Messages. With Win98, a clean install followed by an install of the new 9x Version of the installer program followed by installing the remaining drivers and software will fix most problems.

[Samurai99]

Dear Thermodyne,

I don't suppose you would want to post a complete step-by-step walkthrough of this process. Or send one to me by email. Or tell me where on the Net I could find one.

[Thermodyne]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&Fam ilyID=F1B7A5B0-611B-45A7-A06D-CADFF33E64DA

The installer can be found at the addy above.

Do a clean install with a format. Only install the devices that windows installs on its own. Install chip set drivers. Install windows installer. Install remaining drivers. Install apps.

If your drive is bigger than 6 gigs (I would hope so) Whack out a c: partition that is about 4 gigs and put windows there. Use the rest of the drive for files and apps.

[ July 07, 2003, 23:00: Message edited by: Thermodyne ]

[Samurai99]

Thank you Thermodyne for your post. I'm afraid this might be too daunting for me, which is unfortunate because I think my computer could use it.

I hate to trouble you with this request, but is there a Web site that would contain a precise and simple-to-follow guide?

TIA