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

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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.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

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.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks Crosswire.