Is more RAM what I need?

Samurai99 · #1 July 3rd, 2003, 06:15 PM

Hi,

In my current single-player game, there are some really huge battles between myself and the United Floral. Around 300 dreads and baseships for me, around 200 dreads and 100 loaded carriers for them.

The battle (strategic mode) goes fine, but when it's over and I click close, an error message comes up and the game freezes.

At least I think it freezes. I never have the patience to just let it sit there and see if the end-turn process goes forward.

I've got 128 MB of RAM now.

Would adding RAM help?

Fyron · #2 July 3rd, 2003, 08:08 PM

Can you upload the savegame file so that we can see if it is not a bug causing it to crash? The game should not be crashing because of RAM at the end of the battle.

Also, are you running the latest patch (1.84 or 1.49, depending on whether you have Gold or not)?

[ July 03, 2003, 19:09: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Samurai99 · #3 July 4th, 2003, 06:29 AM

Thanks very much for your offer of help.

I'm extremely curious.

What would you look for? How does one detect a bug in this game?

[ July 08, 2003, 03:47: Message edited by: Samurai99 ]

Fyron · #4 July 4th, 2003, 09:05 AM

Finding a bug requires observing behavior that is abnormal. It is also good if you can reproduce the behaviour. If we can see the savegame, we can see if it crashes on our comps or not. If not, then the problem is with your computer. But if so, then there could be a bug or a glitch or something.

Q · #5 July 4th, 2003, 10:48 AM

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).

dogscoff · #6 July 4th, 2003, 11:44 AM

Even if it doesn't fix that particular problem, more ram is always good.