Tels on 10/3/2002 at 13:31

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Moin anyone,

when you got frequent crashes, make sure you have a swapfile which is large enough. Even though the game/demo never seems to use the memory, it likes, just like Operation Flashpoint, to have a big swapfile:

I had 512MB fixed: crashes everywere, couldn't get trough the trapdoor etc.
With 700 MB fixed it only crashed sometimes.
With 800 MB it didn't crash for 3 hours straight ;)

The actual size may depend on the amount of RAM you have, I have 392 MB and a file cache restricted to 32 MB. Despite this huge amount of RAM, Windows 98 SE swaps out about 120 MB after 3 hours of gameplay.

Anyway, as long as it doesn't crash, it can have all the amount of swap my HD gives ;)

Besides, remember to install the latest Video drivers *AND* if you have a VIA board, the VIA-4-in-1 drivers. This *really* makes a difference ;)

Cheers,

and happy rat-fragging

Tels

Tels on 11/3/2002 at 17:36

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Only borken OSs need so much swap. Unless my normal RAM is exhausted (and having 70MB physical RAM still left is by no means exhausted) the OS should never swap out! It should sacrify the file cache (32 MB more reserve for my system) or use up the remaining RAM.

The most terrifying part is that the OS doesn't even <B>use</B> the swap. It never swaps out more than 120 MB (you can use System monitor to track this), but it crashes if it doesn't have a certain amount as reserve. Crazy! :/

Swapping out is so insane slow, that it will cause stutter etc in the program running. Doesn't probably matter when playing MP3s (just a short pause), but matters when playing online (your game stutters) or burning CDs or other time critical applications.

Win98SE is just so borken ;)

If my OS swaps out more than 200 MB, then something is terrible wrong and the system will get dead slow anyway. With the fast disk, it would take over 8 seconds to write this amount of data out, not to mention that reading it back in (and swapping something else out) would also be very slow.

Anyway, some programs/OS seem to need it, and until I can play these games in Linux, I have to cope :-/

(I have high hopes, there are already ome that run, like CounterStrike, Quake, and Neverwinter Nights will come out with a linux version, yeah! ;-P

Cheers,

Te"We are getting off-topic here"ls

Lonely Candybar on 12/3/2002 at 06:17

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Only in Sweden. :cheeky:

Shadowcat on 12/3/2002 at 09:32

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A few memory leaks to fix, Arkane? :)

Tels on 12/3/2002 at 13:59

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"borken" is to "broken", what in German "flasch" is to "falsch".

As in "You did write that flasch".

Cheers,

Tels