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    Freshly formatted 1405 Memory Problems

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jdon, Dec 2, 2006.

  1. jdon

    jdon Newbie

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    Hello All!!
    I want to thak everyone for all of the great info on this forum. I have followed the reformatting guide and optimization guide as well. I think I may have a problem though...When I try to play a game called snowcraf (very simple snowball fight game it will not load it says it requires at least 3 mb of virtual memory to load. I am really confused on this. I have played this on much less capable cpu's before.
    My specs:
    e1405
    Core 2 duo 1.6
    1 GB ram
    120 GB sata HD
    DVD r/w
    Please help

    I think the game not loading may indicate a problem somewhere
    The virtual mem is set to 1521 mb
     
    jdon, Dec 2, 2006
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  2. otakuoverlord

    otakuoverlord Notebook Evangelist

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    That's an exceedingly common problem with games made with macromedia director (hence the projector icon) during the days of windows 95. The program just doesn't understand how to address virtual memory in XP/freaks out because you have more than 128mb of RAM. As far as I know there isn't really an all-purpose workaround if the 'run for 95' setting has no effect.
     
    otakuoverlord, Dec 2, 2006
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