Testing your system's memory for SW3DG games.

Ravenfeeder · Post by **Ravenfeeder** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:16 am

From post: 119750, Topic: tid=8149, author=MMaggio wrote:My ancient XP passed every test except 4. When I select 4, it starts, but never finishes, and just returns to the file menu.
Don't know if that means anything.

[Edited on 11-17-2011 by MMaggio]

Same here Mike.

Post by **Vice** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:12 am

Mine too ... 'though I'll hold off patching the game.

Yeah, if your system passes tests 1 and 2, I wouldn't worry about trying to increase anything for the game. Test 3 isn't really necessary, but is available for players who want to test the upper limits of base consecutive memory in case they are using high resource mods. Most systems will (and should) fail test 4, but it's also there for testing purposes.

Post by **Marvin** » Sun Nov 20, 2011 6:00 am

Still, the 4GB patch is impressive. Using it on your little program was what I'd call instantaneous feedback.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 12:10 am

LOL...that patch is all I needed a year ago. When I applied the patch to all the Evochron games I can play them all now on the highest settings both on Windows XP 32 bit Pro and Windows 7 64 bit Pro without much frame rate loss! I'm a happy camper now watching the City lights of the cities I build on Earth!.......

:P

DennyMala · Post by **DennyMala** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:44 am

So that patch works on 32 bits systems too?

Oh well.... I only have 2 GB of RAM...lol

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 2:47 pm

From post: 120082, Topic: tid=8149, author=DennyMala wrote:So that patch works on 32 bits systems too?

Oh well.... I only have 2 GB of RAM...lol

Yep.......and that is very little Memory, but your lucky though, some people have no Memory at all!.....

:P:P:P:P:P:P

Post by **Marvin** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 4:14 pm

It comes and goes.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:47 pm

From post: 120092, Topic: tid=8149, author=Marvin wrote: It comes and goes.

What does it wear when it comes, clogs? and what does it wear when it goes, wooden shoes?.....

:P:P:P:P:P:P

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:52 am

It comes with little fanfare and goes with little warning.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 3:09 am

From post: 120120, Topic: tid=8149, author=Marvin wrote: It comes with little fanfare and goes with little warning.

That does not sound so good, probably need to replace your DMA controller/detector and or sound chips.....

:P:P:P:P:P

Malix · Post by **Malix** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:42 pm

From post: 120082, Topic: tid=8149, author=DennyMala wrote:So that patch works on 32 bits systems too?

It probably "works" but affects next to nothing as the 2GB per app is basically 32bit OS limitation (afaik). On 64bit it's a whole different story. The text on the patche's page is worth a read before doing anything with the patcher