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Crawdaddy79
Village Leader
Joined: 24 Apr 2002
Posts: 84
Location: USA |
Everytime I start playing, Wizardry 8 runs smoother than diarrhea out of a baby's butt.
But after about an hour, it cuts down to about 10 frames per second, which is crappy. Also, it does it after I call up the map.
Now, to me this seems a symptom of low RAM. I have 384 Megs, though.
I've been ALT-Tabbing (and it goes to desktop flawlessly, whatever windows were open are still there-they don't have to load back up), and back again and it's smooth again...
I'm thinking the programming only specifies 128 megs (or maybe 64), and wont use more than that.
So my question....
Is there a config setting that I can change to specify the hunkmegs to be greater than whatever the heck it's trying to use???? |
Sat Jun 01, 2002 3:27 pm |
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dteowner
Shoegazer
Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
There have been rumors of a memory leak in the game. The automap may not be the source, but it is certainly tied in some how. Unless you're in Arnika, save exit and reload to clear the problem. Arnika can play a little slow regardless, so S/E/R may not completely clear that one up.
This game, as most all games, will use whatever memory it can find. The 128M spec is a minimum only.
One thing I did that helped a good bit was to adjust the virtual memory. Windows seeks to pick a minimum size for the swap file to save hard drive space. Since that isn't much of an issue for most gamers these days, feel free to specify the swap file size. I'm told the correct value is twice your system RAM. Set that as the min and max both. Control Panel..system..performance..virtual memory.. can't remember more, but that should get you close enough.
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Sat Jun 01, 2002 3:41 pm |
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Bilbo
High Emperor
Joined: 12 Mar 2002
Posts: 1620
Location: New York |
I had a different problem, which I had a thread here on. Here's a link to that thread:
http://www.rpgdot.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5032
Perhaps something in there may help you.
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