[1.01] OOM fast with view all map cheat and started NEXT to an AI

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my i7 win7 64bit ati5850 6gb ddr3 2ghz system started a new game on a custom map, found myself NEXT to ai player had to moveseveral tiles away before founding kingdom

pic of start

start at turn 1

 

then used view all map cheat ram in use was about 220mb.

played approx 60 turns OOM error, same computer different map(mega) no map cheat ~290 turns

zip of dbg,err saves & dxdiags

harpo

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Fudge, I'll soon have an almost identical system put together and was hoping that 6GB would delay how soon out of memory occurs.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

suspect it is to do with tha ati 5850, have tested in a xp32 geforce 8800gt system  & oom was at turn 300, but remember this is the 32bit elemental not the to be released 64bit version

harpo

 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

6gb is unlikely to make a difference at the moment elemental.exe is a 32bit executable. So it's limited to 2gig of memory even under 64bit operating systems (unless it was linked with a IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag, in which case there's a 4gig limit, but that's not the default).

I guess this is why Frogboy & Friends are eager to get 64bit support. :)