hmm, what you stated about the reloads are only true if there is a variable that carries over after i shut off the game. As soon as i start the game, i can always depend on it to go out of memory on the 4th save.

no prob cari just sent it to you and hope it helps.

I think i may have come across something in that the less anomalies there are on the map the more saves i can make. With the enacting of a UN law that forbade others from exploring the anamolies in ur territory caused the game to have ridiculous amounts of those things. After conquering much of the galaxy im slowly getting rid of it and i can go up to 6 saves without a out of memory error.

I just thought I'd give my 2 cents worth of what is causing this error.
It looks like the game uses all the available physical RAM, once the autosave kicks in there is not enough RAM to do the serialization of the physical objects.

ie: I have 2Gig, task manager showed that GalCiv2 was using 1100Mb when I finally got to the desktop. This cleared up to +-600Mb after watching it for a while, then I continued playing the game.

Maybe if before autosaving a test can run to determine if there is enough physical RAM to perform the serialization could prevent this. Free up enough RAM or whatever else might need doing.

ALthough this is assuming that the OoM error only occurs during an autosave which is the only time I have encountered it.

Hey Cari,

Just wanted to say that I just got the 1.80G and have the weekend off, I'm taking a break from modding and playing another Stock DA game to test things out...

I know some people are saying that aren't using Vista...but I have had a few problems outside of the DA game that I think could potential be related that I never had with XP... I'm no developer so I could be WAY off base, and I think most people think I'm crazy when I mention this but here it goes:

While doing modding for GC2: DA I do a lot of saving over old files, and copying to and fro of files and mod folders to create .zip and upload them.

One thing I've noticed recently with Vista is that it is not recognizing the fact that I'm saving the files if I'm doing it in a file that has the same file name...

IE: I alter the S0_Colony.shipcfg file to read another hull and Save (or Save As...) the file into the same directory path as it was previously. After I close the item, and open it back up, I get the file I had PRIOR to saving. If I save (or Save As..) the file and then copy it somewhere else, when I open the file in the new directory I get the same file PRIOR to saving... Now if I Save As... the file into a brand new directory that never had that file before, close and reopen the file, I get the NEW updated file...

I can't explain it, but it happens all the time.

Also, even after I delete my Pref.ini file and restart GalCiv2/DA games, when it reads the Mods folder it will read all mods I ever had in there, even if they have been deleted and the system completely shut down and restarted. This does not happen only to GalCiv2/DA. If I delete files and then go to Save As... into that directory with the same file name, I have to tell it to Overwrite...but when I go to view it through My Computer... it doesn't show anything there....

So I know there is a problem with Vista...

The way I think its related...Well, it appears that for some reason Vista isn't clearing all parts of its memory files correctly for some people (maybe just me?). So maybe it's not clearing out the memory like you guys planned it do, because of the problem I just explained.

I'm pretty good with computers and have tried everything, including refreshing my RAM, deleting all temp files on the computer, deleting all refresh points(shadow files), and it doesn't help with the problem I have.

It's a stretch, but if you are truely that frustrated I figure anything may help if it leads to the cause.

Hey Cari,

I run Vista and also have the memory bug. It always runs out of memory while saving. Last time I checked the task manager Dark Avatar was using 1,399,999 kb or so of memory. This is an annoying bug but not too bad seeing as I can play for an average of an hour before it chokes. I'm pretty sure I did not have this problem until the most recent update but I could be wrong. Thanks again for looking into this issue.

A Merry Christmas to all.

I have noticed that I get memory errors when I play Gigantic games more than any other. Some times along with the out of memory message I get a second message from my program debugger reporting a "Pure virtual call error".

The larger the number of objects created the more errors I get. The game also slows down so much that a constructor takes 4 seconds to cross one sector on the grid. A turn can take upward to 20 minutes before it returns control to me. I can play 3 or four turns than I get another memory error.

Hope this is helpfull?

I'm using 1.80g and get the error periodically, usually after several hours. It will try to autosave, then freeze and CTD. Lately, I've been playing Gigantic games. While I'm here, its not a bug per se but I've noticed the game runs much smoother and loads quicker, both new and saved games, if I use task manager to increase the priority of the game when it starts, but I only get a few seconds to do so. Does anyone know of a way to modify the game or windows XP to increase the default priority?

I've been getting this problem as well. Using 1.80g, generally a large galaxy with uncommon planets and common habitable worlds. It happens during an auto save or a quicksave fairly often near the late game phase.

I am having the same sort of out of memory issues.  This was not a problem on XP but I recently got a new computer with Windows 7.  I have an AMD A6 APU with 8GB of memory.  I play Dark Avatar with gigantic galaxies auto saving every turn (I was having problems with crashes on XP as well, so I too started auto saving every turn).  I should have plenty of resources with this machine even with everything on high in the game, and the game works fine except for during auto saves.  Has this problem been resolved?