Gothic 2 - out of memory error

[David Lucas]

I sort of fixed the constant crashing I was experiencing just by
switching from 32bit colour to 16bit colour. But, now whenever
I attempt to leave the Mines area I get an "Out of Memory"
error, which requests that I free up more memory by closing
other applications (I have no other applications running).

Has anyone else seen this? If so, did you come up with a
solution? Oh.. and I don't have EAX turned on - I'm using Miles
software emulation, or whatever its called...

My PC specs for what its worth:

Athlon 1800XP
512MB RAM
64MB GeForce 3


Any help would be appreciated,


Dave

[Arcana Dragon]

Post by David Lucas
solution? Oh.. and I don't have EAX turned on - I'm using Miles
software emulation, or whatever its called...

...which you have tried disabling, of course? ;-)

[Michael Cecil]

On 30 Jun 2003 14:41:18 GMT, Arcana Dragon

Post by Arcana Dragon

Post by David Lucas
solution? Oh.. and I don't have EAX turned on - I'm using Miles
software emulation, or whatever its called...

...which you have tried disabling, of course? ;-)

I used the Miles sound drivers myself with no problems.

(512 MB RAM, 2GHz P4 though instead of AMD, 128 MB GF3 with 32bit
color. 300% view distance. No crashes.)

[Arcana Dragon]

Post by Michael Cecil
I used the Miles sound drivers myself with no problems.

I had a lot of CTD-woes with e.g. Morrowind until I disabled music. Most
problems with games on modern systems seem to be connected to sound
drivers. It seems so to me, anyway.

I'm very satisfied with my own Hercules 7.1 - great card, no problems (as
long as I turn off music in MW...) :-)

[Michael Cecil]

On 30 Jun 2003 15:22:22 GMT, Arcana Dragon

Post by Arcana Dragon

Post by Michael Cecil
I used the Miles sound drivers myself with no problems.

I had a lot of CTD-woes with e.g. Morrowind until I disabled music. Most
problems with games on modern systems seem to be connected to sound
drivers. It seems so to me, anyway.
I'm very satisfied with my own Hercules 7.1 - great card, no problems (as
long as I turn off music in MW...) :-)

I'm still using an old SB Live! Value card. It's about 3 or 4 years
old now but has been very trouble free. I guess unless they invent a
new kind of sound or this card breaks, I won't need to upgrade.

[Sam Jones]

Post by Michael Cecil
I'm still using an old SB Live! Value card. It's about 3 or 4 years
old now but has been very trouble free.

I;ve had the same card for the same length of time and it's been
nothing but a pain in the arse. I *hate* it, and have just convinced
a friend to sell me his Turtle Beach card. Creatives drivers are teh
suck in no uncertain terms. The card is a source of constant misery,
and it's troubling that the first thing that all game tech support
tells you to do to resolve CTD errors is turn down your sound
accelleration if you have an SB Live card.

Next time, I'm just going for a motherboard with onboard sound.


--

"Don't shoot! I'm with the science team!"

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:09:50 +0100, GSV Three Minds in a Can

Post by Sam Jones

Post by Michael Cecil
I'm still using an old SB Live! Value card. It's about 3 or 4 years
old now but has been very trouble free.

I;ve had the same card for the same length of time and it's been
nothing but a pain in the arse. I *hate* it, and have just convinced
a friend to sell me his Turtle Beach card. Creatives drivers are teh
suck in no uncertain terms. The card is a source of constant misery,
and it's troubling that the first thing that all game tech support
tells you to do to resolve CTD errors is turn down your sound
accelleration if you have an SB Live card.
Next time, I'm just going for a motherboard with onboard sound.

Yep, my nForce2 motherboard sounds much better that the SBLive it
replaced, doesn't crash all over the place, and uses less CPU cycles.
I think 'Creative' must relate directly to their interpretation of PCI
specs and timings. 8>.

Well, it does help to install the correct drivers and not to expect to
fill every PCI slot in your motherboard especially when the mobo
manual has a huge red sticker "warning this motherboard uses shared
IRQs please check pp 23-26 to avoid IRQ collisions".

There was nothing you could do with an SBLive on a KT133a-based
motherboard that would make the sucker stable. Trust me, I spent >2
years trying. 8>.

[Werner Purrer]

Post by GSV Three Minds in a Can
There was nothing you could do with an SBLive on a KT133a-based
motherboard that would make the sucker stable. Trust me, I spent >2
years trying. 8>.

There was nothing on earth you could do to make a KT133a board stable at
all...

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Post by Werner Purrer

Post by GSV Three Minds in a Can
There was nothing you could do with an SBLive on a KT133a-based
motherboard that would make the sucker stable. Trust me, I spent >2
years trying. 8>.

There was nothing on earth you could do to make a KT133a board stable at
all...

Hmm, I must have got orbital then, since mine was OK if you restricted
yourself to one HDD, no SBLive card (or turned the sound off), and ran
Win2k with as few VIA drivers as you could get away with .. but you're
right, in general it was cr&p.