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Attn: RICK GENTER... Help!!

3 posts by 3 people · 24 Nov 1995 - 03 Dec 1995

Sandma 24 Nov 1995#307991
Hi Rick, When my friend tries to load the icr2 demo it loads fine until he attempts to load the Laguna track. Then he gets a message that says, "insufficient memory to load track", but he can continue and load Michigan no problem. What gives?? His system is a Dell XPS P90 with 8 meg ram. He has 591 conventional and 7 meg extended. My system is the exact same except I have 24 meg ram and am running under Win95. I can run the complete demo from win95 (no ms-dos mode) or boot into a dos mode with 576k conventional and still run Laguna with no problem. Maybe I'm wrong but this leads me to believe the problem is not with his conventional mem, but I can't believe the laguna data needs over 8 megs total to run. Can you help me out on this? We both want to get the full version so we can compete via modem and I have high hopes of smokin' his nascar ass at Laguna with my Indycar. Thank for any info Rick. BTW, killer program!! Later... Sandman -------------------------------- Erik Sanders Hickory, N.C.
SA> When my friend tries to load the icr2 demo it loads fine
Quoted text (16 lines) >until he attempts to load the Laguna track. Then he gets a >message that says, "insufficient memory to load track", but he >can continue and load Michigan no problem. What gives?? > His system is a Dell XPS P90 with 8 meg ram. He has 591 >conventional and 7 meg extended. > My system is the exact same except I have 24 meg ram and am >running under Win95. I can run the complete demo from win95 (no >ms-dos mode) or boot into a dos mode with 576k conventional and >still run Laguna with no problem. > Maybe I'm wrong but this leads me to believe the problem is >not with his conventional mem, but I can't believe the laguna >data needs over 8 megs total to run. > Can you help me out on this? We both want to get the full >version so we can compete via modem and I have high hopes of >smokin' his nascar ass at Laguna with my Indycar. Thank for any >info Rick.
Make sure your friend uses a cold boot, ie do not load any memory managers. Thats probably whats going on. You don't get the error because you have 24 megs, but your friend has 8, the minimum for SVGA. --- * TLX v4.10 * "Call waiting", great if you have two friends --- * OLX 2.2 TD *
RickGent 03 Dec 1995#308563
When my friend tries to load the icr2 demo it loads fine until he attempts to load the Laguna track. Then he gets a message that says, "insufficient memory to load track", but he can continue and load Michigan no problem. What gives?? <<< Laguna is tight on an 8MB system. Try running with the UniVBE driver; it will use the video card's memory for offscreen storage and will actually free up more main memory for the game. Rick Genter Technical Lead, IndyCar Racing II Papyrus Design Group, Inc.

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