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    "Out of memory"???

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by MattB85, Aug 12, 2008.

  1. MattB85

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    I'm trying to run the EA game NightFire on my Compaq Evo (P-M 1.6Ghz, 1GB RAM, 40GB free HDD space, 32MB ATI Radeon 7500). This game worked fine until I wiped my HDD and reinstalled everything. Now I get an "out of memory failing request xxxxxxx bytes" error (xxxxxx replaced by a seemingly random number). This program worked fine, all drivers are up to date, and I know I'm definitely not running out of memory. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to look at as far as resolving this?
     
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    Reinstallation maybe?
     
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    Question - did you upgrade your ram to 1GB after installing (before the reformat).
    If so, I think (actually am pretty sure) I might know your problem.


    What's your memory config? Try dropping to 768 or 512MB of memory and report back ;)
     
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    Tried that multiple times. All it seems to do is change the random number after the error.
     
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    Nah, it's not a re-install issue. It's because the game is seeing 024 MB of memory when you have 1024. I see this at least once a month with some old oddball software a client has, and they're baffled and everyone is baffled, and I take OUT memory, and it works. Or you can upgrade to another number, like 1.5GB (1536 MB)


    And I could be wrong but that is what I think the problem is here.
     
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    Is there a workaround that doesn't involve removing RAM?
     
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    Just try it first to see if I am correct. No point in looking for a work-around if I'm not even right.
     
    Hep!, Aug 12, 2008
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    It tells me that it failed a request of "431393504" bytes. Why would it suddenly start doing this after a system reformat and reinstall? I had no problems with the full 1024MB of RAM running this program before the reformat.

    EDIT: removing a RAM chip did nothing...it's still crashing thinking it's out of memory. I've searched a fair amount online and this seems to be a relatively common problem with this game. Noone seems to have a solution though.
     
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    The only other thing I can say is to run a Memtest ( http://www.memtest.org/).
    431393504 bytes is about 411 MB, and you don't have anything using shared memory or the like, so it could be bad RAM.
     
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    Memory tests as good, and other similarly 3D intensive games (Deus Ex, Command and Conquer Generals, Soldier of Fortune 2) run absolutely fine.
     
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