Hey stalker rocks. How do you quicksave though? I've finished the whole game
without it and it would have being quite helpful.
"Dale White" <dale.white@NOinsightbb.NOcom> wrote in message
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>I posted this over in the Stalker fourms, it was actually posted before and
>Anandtech has an article that explains the issues and other games that
>might have this issue
>
> Vista Save and Quicksave (and maybe some others) Crash - Fix
>
> I started playing Stalker under Vista32 again, as I was trying to do some
> benchmarking and test. And I started getting the crash on Quicksaves. I
> thought it was somehting I have changed, since I just played it for 4
> hours under Vista64.
>
> I have 3GB of ram, but the Xray error logs report an "out of memory
> error". But what it really means is out of Virtual memory.
>
> Here is the Error you should see in the xray_username.log.
>
> [error]Expression : fatal error
> [error]Function : _out_of_memory
> [error]File : D:xray-svnxrCorexrDebugNew.cpp
> [error]Line : 358
> [error]Description : <no expression>
> [error]Arguments : Out of memory. Memory request: 8192 K
>
> I was using Process Explorer to see what the program was doing and it was
> only reporting 1.4GB of physical ram in use, but as you'll see in this
> snapshot, the Virtual memory was just over 2GB.
> http://images.filecloud.com/520231/out_of_memory.jpg
>
> The reason the error is so random, is because not all the levels consume
> that much space. In this case, Cordon and Army Warehouse are the two
> places I can exceed 2GB. and fairly fast as you see the game was only
> running for 2 minutes when it maxed out. Which is why I could do 50
> quicksaves, but 51 might crash. If you do the quicksave, while your under
> 2GB of virtual memory, it's fine, do the quicksave after you exceed it and
> BAM ! CTD !
>
> There are two fixes one has. Lower the textures and lighting or for Vista,
> use the increaseuserVA switch. Which funny enough I had on before and took
> it off (which explains why I didn't have this problem before)
> The full command to run from an Elevated Command prompt (means run as
> admin) is
>
> bcdedit /Set IncreaseUserVa 3072
>
> After adding this option back in, I can quicksave all I want when
> exceeding 2GB.
>
> So far, I've not been able to get XP to exceed the 2GB virtual memory
> usage, or at least I didn't quicksave during the times it did.
>
> Here's an article about the 32bit OS 2GB virtual address limit.
> http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3034
>
> You can get process Explorer from Microsoft here
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sExplorer.mspx
>
> Running an "elevated" command prompt (aka run as admin)
> http://images1.filecloud.com/520296/...d_prompted.jpg
>