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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Red Tail 444 on October 02, 2002, 01:47:19 AM
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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?
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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 ---->:confused:
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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.
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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...
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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
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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!!