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Draffind posted 04-18-99 10:37 PM ET
I was getting an occasional error as noted above. I upgraded to version 3 today to try to help the problem. It did help, now I can't even get into the gameplay - I get the error trying to start or load a game. I did a clean boot before trying to play - so all the machine resources were available.
HELP!
Dave Draffin
[email protected]
drunkenkatori posted 04-19-99 02:29 AM ET
I had this problem too for a bit.
There wasn't enough room for the swap file, so I set the swap file allocation to automatic and cleared space on the C drive to about equal to RAM size.
This didn't pop up until late in the game when there were lots of cities and units.
Draffind posted 04-19-99 02:49 AM ET
I figured it out.. for the moment. Based on another post, I checked my free hard disk space. It was about 320MB. I thought that would be plenty. I cleared it out to about 425MB and the error has gone away.
Seems weird to me that you need so much hard disk space for running. I have a 64MB RAM system, so 320MB hard disk space (which didn't work) was 5 times the main memory space.
Dave Draffin
[email protected]
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Author	Topic: HELP! Unable to allocate draw buffer crash...
Draffind	posted 04-18-99 10:37 PM ET I was getting an occasional error as noted above. I upgraded to version 3 today to try to help the problem. It did help, now I can't even get into the gameplay - I get the error trying to start or load a game. I did a clean boot before trying to play - so all the machine resources were available. HELP! Dave Draffin [email protected]
drunkenkatori	posted 04-19-99 02:29 AM ET I had this problem too for a bit. There wasn't enough room for the swap file, so I set the swap file allocation to automatic and cleared space on the C drive to about equal to RAM size. This didn't pop up until late in the game when there were lots of cities and units.
Draffind	posted 04-19-99 02:49 AM ET I figured it out.. for the moment. Based on another post, I checked my free hard disk space. It was about 320MB. I thought that would be plenty. I cleared it out to about 425MB and the error has gone away. Seems weird to me that you need so much hard disk space for running. I have a 64MB RAM system, so 320MB hard disk space (which didn't work) was 5 times the main memory space. Dave Draffin [email protected]