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dhm1
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when i play my computer keeps giving me a low memory warning. what can i do to fix this. when this comes up if i don't close the game it'll shut down.
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How much system memory (RAM) do you have?
Other processes/services could be using up available system memory. You can try and close unnecessary processes and/or services and makes sure you don't have any other programs running as they all eat up your RAM. You can close running processes by going into task manager.
Fatal error: There is not enough available video memory(D3DERR,OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY) While while creating a render target texture. Please choose lower resolution settings, or close other graphics application.
Techencial Details: D3DERR.OUTOFVIDEMEMORY while creating 2d render target texture size
3072x2048 (RTEX_NVIDIA_INTZ_)
Bit in red changes with each error
Never before in the 2 and so years of playing this game on high spec has this ever happened to me. I even lowered the games graphics and performance to the lowest possible settings. Uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Made sure all my drivers were up to date. Ran a PC health check and still this occurs.
Using a ATi Radeon 4850 HD Card with 2GB memory (1.5GB Shared) and 512MB dedicated to video memory
Funnily enough this issue seems to occur only in social zones like ESD and DS9 ground and space and in sector space. Never does it crash during a STF or Feature episode.
Really annoying me now cause as far as i know i have no additional programs running, i only use windows to play this game, everything else is done on the Mac side.
Whatever graphic or system updates they did to the game for LOR has pretty much started to swallow up video memory. FPS is fine clocked it at 30fps on ground and 55fps in space.
May i also add i may get 30 mins or even several hrs before a crash. Most of the time it occurs shortly after ending a mission and transferring instances.
I'm assuming you saw in Win7's that it showed 512mb dedicated and 1.5GB 'shared'. If so, the 'shared' is determined by Win7... it's quite possible that the game only has 512mb to work with.
Get GPU-Z from a site like filehippo and have it run in the background, it will give a more detailed picture than Task Manager/Resource Monitor. You can see which part of the video card gets maxed out... from the error message it sounds like the GPU ran out of dedicated video ram.
Drop textures to 25% and work up from there. If you are using the 'quality' slider, stick it to 50%, character/world detail to 50% distance and make sure world/character texture is no higher than 100%, that should get it all to fit within 512mb.
supergirl: Obviously yours is video memory problem, but I would ask how much total system memory you are running, as your shared memory is borrowing from that. LoR has increased the video requirements, but depending on your total system memory, you may not have enough system memory left over for the video to use. I currently use a 1GB graphics card with 4GB system memory on Vista and I haven't had any problems. If you could let us know your total system memory and OS, we might be able to give a more detailed suggestion. It is worth noting you are more likely to have issues in social zones, as the sheer number of textures and renders increases, as does the variety (due to the number of individual uniform choices). It might be worth attempting to switch to low pop instances where possible when in social zones.
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Fantastic so cryptic in one update mAy have just retired my ?2000 at the time iMac. Great wondr how much apple charge to replace graphics cards
Gone fom having a beautifully detailed game to if it can do running the game on low end graphics. Sure I'm not the only one in the boat
Not a fantastic solution as I liked to see the game in better detail... guess I will have to replace my ?130 graphics card for a newer version... oh well
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I had a similar problem with the APB Reloaded game, and roughly the same specs as you have. The problem with Vista (32 bit anyway, not 64) is that it essentially "claims" 2GB itself, leaving in fact only 2GB for other applications. I am assuming (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) you are using Vista 32bit and are having the same problem.
There is a workaround for this. It requires some operating system file editing. You can find the information by searching for "Vista 32 bit ram switch" on Google (I assume you will find similar or same results with any other search engine). Be aware this CAN destabilize your operating system and should be used with caution. While I am more than willing to provide this information, I take no responsibility for results if you chose to use it. Be careful to monitor your system when using such tools and be sure to document the procedures on paper in case you need them later and cannot access the internet to find them. As always, be sure to back up data prior to attempting any such activity. Again, you use such tools at your own risk, neither I nor Cryptic/PWE are liable if you do so.
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Before LOR I was running bloom,shadows, lighting, lens flare, ect on high, character detail was set to 200 the world textures were set to default 100%.
and my card was handling the game and it ran smooth.
The only time I have any really slow down was during Klingon scout force against the final group of ships.
I'm currently in the process of upgrading windows 7 to 64 bit as I have 8gb of ram in my machine but 32bit will only grant access to 3gb of it. And boy is it taking a long time 12 hrs and only half way there
I hope you'll let us know how it went, I'm curious to see if 32 bit was the issue at hand for you.
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I will do once this install is complete. I don't see it dong much tbh, I think its the game spiking and over working the card causing it to crash