Heh, well, the one time I left the computer for long enough to have the screen saver kick in, it didn't...I'm not quite sure why. I think it's because I was trying to download very large demos of Devil Whiskey (remake of Bard's Tale) and Warlords IV (turn-based strategy)
. And of course Explorer hasn't crashed the entire time either, so I haven't been able to repeat the text loss yet. Of course, there is always the possibility that it has been fixed in build 41...but I guess it's not likely, eh? Perhaps a good thing would be for DROD to have a backup folder where it is continuously exporting players and holds in case of crashes like this. It should be noted when the text loss happens, the buttons still work, so I was able to just open up build 41, note the button placement, and export my player file from the text-loss build 40.
**Here I found another bug: if you import a player with the same name to your current game, it always brings up the select player dialog when you start DROD, even though there is only one name to choose from.**
Anyway, once I changed my name in "
Settings"
, and exported the player file again, it said that it was corrupted when I tried to import it to build 41. So maybe you can figure something out from that, and it is attached to this post. But to answer your other questions...
ErikH2000 wrote:
* Have you recently seen messages from Windows about being low on virtual memory? (Either with DROD running or without)
Nope, never.
* Did you ever manually configure your virtual memory settings and if so, in what way?
Yes: I have 512 MB of RAM (came with 256 MB, added 256 MB more when I bought it, have often wondered if the memory is bad just because I like to throw blame around), and so I set the paging file minimum and maximum to 512 MB. I read that normally you would set it to 1.5 times the RAM you have, until you have a large amount of RAM (like over 256 MB) and then just set it to the actual amount of RAM. So that's what I did.
* Is your available hard disk space under 100mb?
Definitely not, and I try to defrag once a month.
All hunches and vague notions will be listened to.
Heh heh heh...
Game on,
[Edited by Oneiromancer on 09-10-2003 at 02:02 AM GMT: Forgot to add .player file]
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