Virtual Memory & Start Up Questions

Your best bet, would be to contact the game vendor & see if any updates or patches are required

DageezerUS

Elmekia,

You could try to change the settings for your Virtual Memory. Right-click on My Computer, choose Properties. Click on the Advanced tab. Click the Settings for Performance. You would have the Performance Options window. Click the Advanced tab.

Look for the area on Virtual Memory. Click on Change.

Change the minimum paging file size to the size of your main memory. Change the maximum size to thrice that of the minimum size.

Hope this helps... 

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.  It isn't a game issue, because I tried other games just in case and the same error came up.  I did try to change the virtual memory size, but that didn't work.  There is also a discrepancy on what my computer is telling me the virtual memory and paging file sizes are.  If I look one place, it says I have plenty.  If I look where you're saying to change the settings, it says the paging file is 0 mb. 

I've sent an email to technical support on the issue and I'm hoping for an answer soon.  I think this computer has set a record for the fastest a computer has ever messed up on me. :)

It's not messed up.  It's perfectly normal for Windows to change your page file size.  Nothing's wrong and nothing will ever become wrong because of that message.

Now the startup issue you're having, I don't know what to tell you but that is definitly not right!

Message Edited by alevasseur14 on 02-01-2004 05:58 PM

It is too bad that you are having the other problems.  I just wanted you to know that the paging file thing is completely normal and I don't think the two are related.  I'm sorry that I don't have the answer to your other problems.  I guess the only thing I can recommend is to reinstall Windows.  I know that you shouldn't have to do it with a new system, but it's kind of nice to get all the stuff you'll never use anyways off the system and start fresh.  It's also relatively easy to do.  If that's something you'd be interested in, there are many people on here with links to sites that walk you through the process.  Good luck!

Messing up seems a perfectly fine word for certain programs, etc working one day and not the next.  I'm not saying it's permanent, or even serious.  But it's definitely an annoyance I didn't think I'd have to deal with three days into a purchase.  Changing page files might be a normal thing to happen, but is it normal for the computer to change it so that the computer works worse than before?   Or that you can't change it to fix the problem?  No settings we change 'stick'.

I've had to do that on my old computer.  ME had corrupted the hard drive so I bought Windows XP, but an error we couldn't fix kept happening.  I didn't want to spend a lot of money to bring it in again, so I would reinstall.  Had to do that five times in a month and a half, one time twice in a day.  Maybe I should have just spend the money to have someone look at it, but after that it stopped happening.

To make a long story short (too late, I know) I try to avoid the annoyance of reinstalling whenever possible.  And I didn't realize you kept your files after a system restore, it seems like an even better idea now than when I did it. :) 

It helps that I have a forum like this and tech support to answer my questions. Thanks.