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Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:55:19 PST7
From:	Michael Rakijas <mrakijas@oco.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Memory for SimTown/2

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** Reply to message from "Steven Levine" on Mon, 28 Jan
2002 17:26:57 PST7

> Can you pull some memory to test if this is really the problem?

OK. It looks like physical memory was not the problem. I pulled the 128MB
DIMM that's in there now and replaced it with a 64MB DIMM, equivalent to what
was there before and the error message persists. It must be something else.
It took me a little while because I wanted to update with FixPak15/W41026. Not
too surprisingly, the behavior doesn't change.

> >limit changes to one at a time) but the next time SimTown/2 was run, it
> >complained of not having enough memory let alone that it should have
>
> Is it possible that you have too much disk space and the error message is
> confused?

I don't think my reading of the message is confused but it's possible that the
message is confused about what it is reporting. It's repeated below for
reference. It's pretty difficult to read as anything but a system memory issue.

> >OS/2 app, there's really nothing to change. Is disassembly to find where
> >it queries for available memory the only option? I'm afraid I'd be
> >hopelessly out of my league trying this.
>
> If the app is small and there are not too many hack protects, finding a
> patch location should be easy enough and can probably be done with the
> debugger.

I'm all ears, just don't overestimate my knowledge or abilities.

> Steven
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> "Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.30a #10183 Warp4/FP15
> www.scoug.com irc.webbnet.org #scoug (Wed 7pm PST)

-Rocky

P.S. The error message reads in its own popup graphical text message box:

Fatal error. Not enough memory to run SimTown. Try these: 1) Close some
applications and try again. 2) Buy some more memory. (Nothing else is loaded at
the time this message appears so it's not that too many apps are loaded.)

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