Congrats

Yippie ?

This is what’s puzzling, I have a 6 gig page file (permanent), 2 gigs of memory (tested) and a ultra clean unfragged drive, but had game crash's only with Gal Civ 2 no other game. Anyway all day play and no crash yet, so one of the things I done, fixed it.

Cacheman is a splendid little utility that has been going since the ark right up to the present day with CachemanXP.
Basically it manages your memory, releasing unused or forgotten memory when you are running low, in my case I have it set at 200meg where as the default was only 30 meg and didn’t cure my crashing. I raised the recovery limit to 200 meg after reading somewhere on this forum that saving a game can eat up 100 meg of memory.
Cacheman reads your memory every 3 seconds hopefully catching and preventing the inevitable crash though lack of memory.

This is only my interpretation and my be totally wrong. All I can tell you for sure is that it works for Gal Civ 2.


Find it here.

http://www.outertech.com/?_charisma_page=index&PHPSESSID=30cdb31934185988265ec424efd4832e

Thanks Mistoffeles, Ill knock it down to 4096.
Hope this helps others with similar problems to get playing again. I know how it feels not to be able to play, it feels like getting caught in a pig poo downpour with your wellys stuck in the mud (not nice).

Where did you get cachemanXP?

Google.

Link

Since the link got a little jacked up in post #7, I thought I would repost it.

I also want to say thank you for the link.

When I dropped the auto recover lower than 100 meg it starts crashing again.
Keeping it at 200 meg I have had 2 solid days of game play on gigantic map with all races and tons of jewellery covered ships and no crash.

There is one way to find out which of the two solved the problem.
Get rid of Cacheman.

The background star density problem has been known about since version 1.0.
If it is too high, you will have problems.

Mine is set to 61, by the way. It has been so since version 1.0, when I first learned that very high star numbers was an invitation to a crash.

anything like this for Vista?

"Vista uses superfetch takes your free memory and puts it in cache."

Yup, and because of how differently Vista's memory management works, memory managers for XP probably won't work as well in Vista.

If you're on Vista, the best thing you can do is to simply add more memory.

BTW, ReadyBoost is a part of SuperFetch - ReadyBoost essentially places some of the hard drive cache on a flash drive.

So, yeah, Vista's caching works completely different from XP's.

"A 6GB page file is a waste, WindowsXP cannot use more than 4GB for a swap file"

XP uses 32 bit addressing for both virtual and physical memory? I thought the virtual addressing would use a larger addressing scheme. I guess not .

I have Vista 64bit 4 gigs RAM and 8gb - 12gb of VM...still getting it because it doesn't matter how much you have, it happens from running into the GalCiv2 1.5gb limit...(Note not just GalCiv2, I believe its all 32 bit games that have this)

Nope, don't know why it happens on this game, but not other games like Civ4 and things like that.

Can't we mod them in? Oh wait "new planet texture SYSTEM" which means the textures themselves won't help much without the system using them...darn...worth a thought.