out of memory? - Page 2

wilhil · #11 March 1st, 2004, 06:28 PM

it is 1gb of dual channel ram, 2x 512mb sticks

all ram is fine, i do weekly checks

and I do not run direct anti virus software, I just have a automated daily scan by the server (it is complicated! i wont explain!)

wilhil · #12 March 2nd, 2004, 02:47 AM

No answer?

:'( looks like il be going back to a old Version!

Slick · #13 March 2nd, 2004, 02:52 AM

That amount of memory should be fine; way more than fine to be honest. When I first got SE4, I was running it on a 256K machine and I don't remember getting any out of memory errors. Based on what you have said, I can't see why you are getting the errors.

If it isn't an excessively high numbers of units or ships, I don't know what would cause it. I think that would cause a range check error instead of an out of memory error, though.

Slick.

narf poit chez BOOM · #14 March 2nd, 2004, 02:57 AM

256K? se4 must use very little memory.

why yes, i am also testing my sig.

Slick · #15 March 2nd, 2004, 02:59 AM

I'm sure that Windohs was using the swap file a lot on my old machine.

Slick.

narf poit chez BOOM · #16 March 2nd, 2004, 03:00 AM

you were serious?

Slick · #17 March 2nd, 2004, 03:08 AM

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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
you were serious?

Ouch. Yes, I was serious - and seriously wrong on my units

. Should have been 256M instead of 256K. However that is 1/4 of the memory he's using so I really don't think it is a computer memory problem.

*trots off to learn his units*

Slick.

narf poit chez BOOM · #18 March 2nd, 2004, 03:18 AM

oh, ok. i think i first played se4 with 256M, too.

Fyron · #19 March 2nd, 2004, 03:19 AM

Yeah, I was wondering what you meany by 256K of RAM... Hard to draw a few bitmaps with that little RAM!

Slick · #20 March 2nd, 2004, 08:50 AM

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.

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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.

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