In search of my Physical Memory

[Red Tail 444]

I am lost...I have been working on alpha_texturing gunsights, and I suddenly CTD when I try to change my sights in the game...offline. I also CTD when I try to fly as well.

I thought maybe I had too much stuff in the AH directory/gunsights folder, so I deleted nearly all of my sights on my drive, but each time I viewed system information, my PM decreased even though I had more free space on my drive than when I started

Here are my specs:
Processor                                          Pentium 4 1.6mhz
System Model                            Dimension 4300
Total Physical Memory            256.00 MB
Available Physical Memory            71.04 MB
Total Virtual Memory            871.93 MB
Available Virtual Memory            534.14 MB
Page File Space                            616.92 MB

Ok...what did I do wrong, and how can I correct it other than run a recovery on the system?

[Red Tail 444]

Size                   37.21 GB (39,958,409,216 bytes)
Free Space   27.98 GB (30,048,296,960 bytes)

As you can see, not much here to account for all that missing memory...


 Very ---->

[blackfalcon4]

YOYO,

 Used harddrive space has nuthing to do w/actual phys memory.

 By your specs, you have 256mb of actual ram(physical memory)

 What appears to be your trouble as memory goes is that you have too many progs running in background.

 Now, the cause of your ctd's is probably caused by the gunsight file being too large. It can only be so many pixels, but I forget the actual limitation of size. I'd check into the sizes.

 Remember awhile back a new squads noseart was too big and caused all kinds of arena probs.

[Red Tail 444]

Ok, Well, I opened up the task manager and noticed a lot of SYNChost programs running, I tried shutting down and removing a number of programs before I posted. Also, I have my gunsights set to 128x128, and 256x256.

Any idea which programs I should be shutting down? It was odd...one it worked fine, then all of a sudden I was getting CTD's and I changed nothing other than the gunsight designs...

still lost...

[blackfalcon4]

YOYO,

 Well just looked up gunsights on htc website.

 And yes your site is too large,, has to be 64x64

 Make your site to size and your ctd's should be ok

[Gypsy Baron]

Originally posted by blackfalcon4
YOYO,

 Well just looked up gunsights on htc website.

 And yes your site is too large,, has to be 64x64

 Make your site to size and your ctd's should be ok

 I believe that is old, outdated information.

 Sometime in the recent past the size was
 increased to 128 x 128.

 The old 64 x 64 sights had a file size of 3K.

 The 128 x 128 sights have file sizes of 17k or 18k.

 But, curiously enough, I also started having severe CTD
 problems recently after I was doing some editing of
 gunsights. I think my problems may have actually been
 caused by my RAM going whcko due to accumulated
 dirt & dust in my system. After a thorough cleaning and
 the restoration of a couple of corrupted files I SEEM to
 be back, stable again ( X <---- crossed fingers! )

 In any case, I'd  "run sfc" , the system file checker and
 replace any corrupted files it finds. As to your programs
 running in the background, try to determine what they are
 and if they are needed. You may need to run "msconfig" and
 see what's being loaded in the "startup" section. There you
 can selectively disable items in that list and see if it makes
 any difference with your AH problems.

 Good luck. Believe me, I KNOW your frustration!!