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DA Random Crashes, Out of Memory, etc... Solution

June 11, 2007 10:14:44 AM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
I am not a computer expert. But I do enjoy tinkering.

I was experiencing a few problems running DA on a laptop. The laptop's Nvidia 7800GTX (256 meg) card, 2 gigs of memory, and 2.26 ghz PentiumM process are not that old (yet).

The first thing I did was update the video driver. I ended up purchasing driver cleaner pro for $10, but Kryo wrote there was a freebie version of software floating around. After reading the driver cleaner pro instructions (which are VERY detailed) and running the software, I loaded up a slightly older version of nvidia drivers for my slightly old video card.

I still experienced crashes every few turns while playing on gigantic map with abundant everything, 9 races, and 8 minor races. So, I turned to CachemanXP from www.download.com (otherwise known as C/NET). I cannot use the auto-optimize button since I am using the shareware version, but I set "File Cache Management" to "CachemanXP controlled." I left everything else alone. I loaded up DA, the alt-tabbed out to CachemanXP and set the "Priority" for DA to "HIGH."

I played for hours last night on gigantic with abundant everything with no problems what so ever. This did the trick for me, so I hope it helps someone else.
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Pyrion
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Reply #1 June 11, 2007 10:22:02 AM
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Priority... you mean CPU priority?

Setting CPU priority to high won't really "fix" anything, it just means galciv2 will get higher priority to the CPU than other applications.

Heck, I dare you to set it to realtime priority.
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Reply #2 June 11, 2007 10:30:59 AM
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I think so, yes. Works for me, an it's a free program. Why not give it a go?

BTW, there is a "Start with Realtime Priority" option (whatever that means).
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Reply #3 June 11, 2007 12:32:51 PM
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I've noticed some of the debug.err getting posted have relatively low Windows pagefile sizes (< 1GB). If you have the hard-drive space, try setting it to 4GB (min and max) and see if that helps. It's a bit of a brute force approach, but might be worth setting up.
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Reply #4 June 12, 2007 2:05:54 AM
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I am not a computer expert. But I do enjoy tinkering.

I was experiencing a few problems running DA on a laptop. The laptop's Nvidia 7800GTX (256 meg) card, 2 gigs of memory, and 2.26 ghz PentiumM process are not that old (yet).

The first thing I did was update the video driver. I ended up purchasing driver cleaner pro for $10, but Kryo wrote there was a freebie version of software floating around. After reading the driver cleaner pro instructions (which are VERY detailed) and running the software, I loaded up a slightly older version of nvidia drivers for my slightly old video card.

I still experienced crashes every few turns while playing on gigantic map with abundant everything, 9 races, and 8 minor races. So, I turned to CachemanXP from www.download.com (otherwise known as C/NET). I cannot use the auto-optimize button since I am using the shareware version, but I set "File Cache Management" to "CachemanXP controlled." I left everything else alone. I loaded up DA, the alt-tabbed out to CachemanXP and set the "Priority" for DA to "HIGH."

I played for hours last night on gigantic with abundant everything with no problems what so ever. This did the trick for me, so I hope it helps someone else.


I have already tried this approach, and even though it seems to alleviate the problem, it is only temporary, the problem will return in a later stage of the game.

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Reply #5 June 12, 2007 9:10:22 AM
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Thanks Crosswire.
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