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D I G I T A L
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Posted: 30th Nov 2003 20:45 Edited at: 30th Nov 2003 20:49
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hello people,
i get a runtime error "Not Enough Memory" when i change between display modes, how can i free up some memory? whats the solution? i delete everything before switching, objects, sprites, images, sounds...etc.
oh, and i also use the "flush video memory" command, it didnt work!
thankx

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Clarks
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Posted: 1st Dec 2003 02:03
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you have more than just video memory on your program.
you also have hard drive memory normally called bytes and ram memory that is short term. You probably need some more ram memory. Get a upgrade or get a memory free up program.
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Posted: 1st Dec 2003 02:46
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hmmm, i have 128BM ram and 40GB Hard disk capacity, isnt that enough?

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Posted: 1st Dec 2003 02:56
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Quote: "i get a runtime error "Not Enough Memory" "


I get that on my Laptop (Win ME)

It's do with your Vid mem and DirectX

I don't have a clue how to solve it, but that is the problem with the out of mem error.

Hope I Helped...


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Posted: 1st Dec 2003 03:23
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well, sometimes it appears and sometimes it dosnt! kinda weird! but thankx anywayz

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I got that on my old comp..

128 RAM
20 Gig HD
1 Ghz
Win 98
GeForce 2 MX 440


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Posted: 1st Dec 2003 03:37
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Quote: "I got that on my old comp.."

so did that error stop from showing up?

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128 MB of RAM is a little bit low these days...

Go to Start:Run
Type "msconfig" and hit run

There should be a tab called "Startup"

Uncheck everything except what you want running. This will free up memory on your computer, and improve system performance. Also, in DB, undim all of your unused arrays to free up memory.

Good luck.

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thankx for the help

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I got a voodoo 2 with 192 mb memory, and what I did was use X-Setup ( a tweak tool) with the Voodoo 2 plugin, I limited the texture mem to 2 mb there and ever since I did that, together with Cacheman running, all my stuff runs fine. Even stuff that went slow before like Carmageddon 2 and Adventure pinball. And trust me, they ran S*L*O*W* before.
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Posted: 4th Dec 2003 00:11
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so from what you people say, i get that the runtime error "NOT ENOUGH MEMORY" is not really an error. either HD memory or Ram or Video memory, but nothing to do with my code. in that case i have nothing to worry about, thankx guyz

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Yeah, it's nothing to do with your code, it's your Vid card.

As i said, i have the same problem on my laptop, where, for some reason, it says that my Vid card ( Built in ) only has... wait for it.... wait.... and here it is... 2.5 Mb lol...

Compton, I'm gonna have a look into those tools you mentioned, thanks.


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