Pico Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 A friend of mine plays SC but whenever he starts it his memory usage goes through the roof and his computer crashes. He always closes down as much processes as possible tho. anyone know how to fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade Trapp Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 Pico Never heard of that, SC doesn't take up a lot of memory for me. This would be something to post in the "Strategic Command - Tech Support" forum. Comrade Trapp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les the Sarge 9-1 Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 Very strange indeed, I have been of the opinion that SC is perhaps the current smallest footprint wargame (of note) I have encountered in a long time. It sounds like he has a problem with his system more than a problem with his game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaMonkey Posted November 21, 2003 Share Posted November 21, 2003 Is your friend using Win ME? If so has he got Norton AV also? Does his PC eventually slow down to a crawl? The fix is Win 2000 or perhaps XP with at least 128 MB RAM, but 256 MB for better operation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaka of Carthage Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 Pico There are too many files in the SC folder that he is trying to open. Move the files into a different folder, then have him start again. That should solve the problem. I suspect its a memory management problem with SC. Cold reboot (ie starting the computer from a power off condtion) may help, as it clears out the memory registers. (a few hours after I wrote the above) Let me expand on the "too many files" comment. In the SC PBEM folder, if it has a file it doesn't like, SC will sit there. I figure its in a endless loop. You have to go into the Task Manager to kill SC. I have not be able to definetively determine what the causes are, so I can only warn you about what I suspect. When you download a PBEM file, don't do anything else. Something is happening to a downloaded file, either during the download process or once it hits the PBEM folder, if too many files are there. Whatever is happening to the file, SC can't read it, so it just sits there. By getting rid of all of the files in the PBEM folder, then downloading (or copy from from another folder) the file you want, then try to start SC. If it won't start with that one file in the folder, than there is a problem with the file and you need to download it again. If you still can't load with one file in the folder and a fresh download, I don't know what to tell you. [ November 22, 2003, 04:51 AM: Message edited by: Shaka of Carthage ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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