Game crashes at "Save"

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I like to play DA (2.01) on max settings (max opponents, max mninors, abundant everything).

The last three times I have thought I would get a win on Suicidal, the game would crash on Out of Memory error a couple hundred turns into the game.  I go back to the last valid save, and it would crash again in a turn or two, and maybe even on the very next turn if I tried to manually save.  Would hitting quick save several times a turn help?

I have a quad-core system with 2 gig Ram and Vista.  Would more ram solve this problem?  Or, would it simply postpone the crash for perhaps one more turn?  If it some sort of memory leak, then it would not fix it.

I also have the game on my laptop, a core duo also with 2 gig ram and have had the same thing happen there.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I have a quad-core system with 2 gig Ram and Vista. Would more ram solve this problem?
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Unfortunately not. As the game is 32-bit, it can only address a maximum of 2GB no matter what (the balance of whatever it can get from main memory after Windows and other programs take their share comes from virtual memory). You can save a bit of memory by reducing the planet surface variety slider in the options, but there's not a whole lot that can be done in DA beyond that. TA has a number of mechanical/feature changes (eliminating the old planet textures system almost entirely, etc) that reduce it's memory footprint so that big maps are less likely to run into the limit.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Thank you.  I will try that slider thing.

Is this a common problem?  How do other folk avoid this problem?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Most people play TA, which has the aforementioned changes to reduce memory usage (which were enough so that a new map size could be added beyond gigantic, even). There's not really a solution for DA, aside from cutting the planet textures back and playing with fewer planets.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

The planet textures change seems to have done it!  At least, I have been able to continue my game w/o additional crashes.

BTW, I also disabled night lights on back of planets.

Thanks for you help.

I guess I'm just not "most people" - is TA more fun?  I keep seeing posts for TA that some AIs are not expanding, not building improvements, etc.  I have seen no such problems in DA.