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Okay, so I'm a poor kid with a crap computer, but does DROD: AE have to remind me of that every time I start? Because I always get the warning message that there should be no problems, but maybe it would be better to free up some memory by closing running apps. Only, there are no other apps running. Maybe if the situation is permanent, you should be able to turn this message off. I realise it may make sense for the check to run at each execution on computers that satisfy the condition otherwise, but in this case it's rather uneffective. On the other hand, maybe the threshhold should be set lower and the message should be changed to "Your computer is about to experience a thermal meltdown...". ;) At any rate, it runs fine alongside Corel Photo Paint 10, which makes me think there may be a bit more room for error with the current threshhold than one would suspect.

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11-17-2003 at 12:02 PM
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Yeah, I agree that the threshold is too high - on my office computer, I always get the message, but DROD runs fine. On my home computer, I get the message if I'm playing a DVD on the background, but DROD still runs fine.

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I think if you play in fullscreen mode DROD doesn't need as many resources and so it's even less to worry about. If you have the time and inclination, a journey through the Bugs board may reveal the reason why this message is included, because I do kind of remember the resource use being discussed and the warning dialog being added.

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Oneiromancer wrote:
I think if you play in fullscreen mode DROD doesn't need as many resources and so it's even less to worry about. If you have the time and inclination, a journey through the Bugs board may reveal the reason why this message is included, because I do kind of remember the resource use being discussed and the warning dialog being added.

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Hmm. I always play in fullscreen mode. Like I said, it's an old computer, but if DROD runs beside multiple apps but I still get the message when running nothing but DROD, I would think the threshhold is a bit high.

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11-17-2003 at 05:32 PM
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Hmm...there's probably a way to check how much total memory there is, and at least change the message if most of it's free. Hmm...but that's not quite what you want...maybe we can add a "Don't show this message again" checkbox along with the warning.

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