Command & Conquer 3 Problems

[blitzkrieg]

Unfortunatly i'm having some strange problems with C&C 3, and it's bloody fustraiting.
Does this mean any thing to any one?


This message comes up while i'm playing, there is also another one as well, but i didn't screenshot it, but it happens randomly. The game as been patched, and it crashes at random moments, not at specific times, which makes it worse.

[Conri]

OUTOFMEMORY?

Try increasing virtual memory?

[blitzkrieg]

Increasing my RAM? I did see the out of memory but didn't know if it ment RAM or what?

Ok how do i increase the virtual memory?


Edit: I did one of those game scan things, and the only thing it failed for C&C 3 was in recommended and that was not having Vista, that's it.

[Parkhead]

Virtual memory is memory that can be used by the harddrive when your ram is overflowed (as I understand it somebody feel free to enlighten me). Go to My computer > View system information > Advanced > Settings in the performance bit > Advanced tab again in the performance settings > Finally change in the Virtual Memory bit. Im not quite sure how much virtual memory to use though, mine is at 1562mb with a max I can have of 3072mb.

[blitzkrieg]

Thanks parkhead, i will crank this bad boy up and try and get some fit gameage going!

[Conri]

mines is at 2026MB

*shrug* might work, might not work.
just an idea given that it appeared to be a memory problem.

[Darkarium]

I read somewhere that its best to have your pagefile set to initial size double your RAM. I have 1gb ram so got pagefile set to 2gb intial and 3gb max.

[Conri]

Nah. thats kinda makes no sense.

pagefile useage is inversely proportional to the amount of RAM you have.

(because it is used to 'conserve' Ram, or when you have no RAM left).

so someone with 512MB of ram is going to need a lot more page file than someone with 2GB of ram doing the exact same thing.

I'd set your page file about 2GB no matter how much ram you have :p

[bjerringholm]

you are no alone
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.jsp ... 7&start=15

**** EDIT ****

found some more

I understood that this error has somthing connected with Graphic and DX, and i noticed that i have this problem since i updated my VGA driver, so... I thought about reducing graphic detail from High to Low....and it worked !!!!!

fromhttp://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=20047&start=45&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=67d2138f31dfc805049ae48c64cec5e5

[blitzkrieg]

Thanks BJ, i did that, and yeah it worked, for some reason my GFX card wasn't holding up against it, i have a ATI Radeon X800 XT.