Memory problems with FOT...

[Excalibur Bane]

Fallout Tactics is giving me some serious trouble (again, surprise suprise). It's randomly crashing when I make contact with the enemy. Usually when I reach a certain point over the map when scrolling, or enemy contact with weapons or from weapons fire, etc, etc.

It beeps and I get an error message exactly the same every time, on every map:

C:\dev\bos\main.cpp(578): **fatal error**: Out of memory

Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this?

I have a Pentium 2 at 400 mhz
128 MB of RAM
ATI Rage Pro Turbo with 16 MB of VRAM
Full install, no cd crack, and FT Booster just installed last night. Pagefile is set to 750 MB. I don't understand how it can possibly be out of memory when I have TWICE the minimum requirements.

This is the absolute last straw with this piece of shit game. I was going to try and finish it again, but this is beyond frustration. I've had to skip mission objectives to avoid crashing just to finish the mission.

I would appreciate any help wih this. Thank you.

 

[alec]

Out of memory?

Hm... It's funny how everyone always keeps coming up with all these bugs in FOT, making it difficult for them to finish the game even once, while I've finished it at least 7 or 8 times without any major difficulties. No kidding.

I don't have any idea what you should do, really, but the 'Out of memory' message might be a hint: maybe you don't have enough free disc space to run the game? Or maybe your RAM is a little small: FOT runs best on 256 MB of RAM or more (my experience). The FOT booster is crap, by the way (again: my experience): imo, it doesn't speed the game up. I have exactly the same framerate with or without the FOT booster - and you can quote me on that!

Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[Roshambo]

It's one of the infamous memory leak problems, along with other more dicey things that...well, FOT is an enigma. Brand new fuck-ups that resulted from programming kludging are found, and it happens frequently.

My suggestion: skeet shooting.

 

[Excalibur Bane]

Well, if it was a memory leak, wouldn't it correct itself when I use a program to unload garbage from memory and free up the max amount? I use RamTurbo to do that before I run the game. I also reboot frequently.

Man, they did a piss poor job on this game. If I don't have enough memory, how the hell is someone with 64 MB supposed to play the game?

 

[Roshambo]

Well, if it was a memory leak, wouldn't it correct itself when I use a program to unload garbage from memory and free up the max amount? I use RamTurbo to do that before I run the game. I also reboot frequently.

Well, it wouldn't do much help if the memory leak was of sufficient incompetence to make a runaway loop that eventually fills up all available memory.

Man, they did a piss poor job on this game. If I don't have enough memory, how the hell is someone with 64 MB supposed to play the game?

I would suggest a miracle to them, in that case.

 

[[Roe] Snake]

There are several ways to fix this problem.

1: Hardware, update video card if you think you're running an old one, sometimes downloading new drivers will do alot... So check into this. You're running a P2, 400 MHZ, it's known for FOT to run slow (with problems) on older systems.

2: Software updates, run Windows Up-date. A new bios update works well too, sometimes flashing the bios will solve alot of un-nessusary problems.

3: Clean up the HD and start tweaking the Cache memory, you can open up more Cache memory by editing several REG Lines in the RegEdit of windows... This needs caution !!! writing more Cache memory to the HD will sometimes fasten up your programs.

EDIT: Sometimes with older systems, running '98 or 2000, it's recommanded that you turn off System Restore, which eats a lot of Computer Memory on startup and doesn't clean up while running your system, disable System Restore would solve alot of memory problems.

 

[JJ86]

I assume you are running Windows 98?

Your system is low-end and at the very least increase your memory to 256Mb or even 512Mb. 128Mb is sub-par for a gaming system on modern games. Memory is still reasonably cheap so there is no call for having only that little. Even the vid card memory is sub-par. Upgrade the video card as a second problem area, they aren't too hard on the wallet to get something decent. The MSR as shown on the box are really never something to adequately run a game - have SR that are well above them to run it without problems.