sometimes when i play soldat, it just exits to windows and i see the little harddisk logo next to my clock, when i click it it says ive only got like 5 mb left, but im sure i got 2 gb left on my HD (check it before i play, and after i reboot its back to 2gb) i checked my soldat directory to see if it makes screens or demos or something but no. and yes i turned my kazaa off :p

quote:Originally posted by Tha Doggfather
i see the little harddisk logo next to my clock,when i click it it says ive only got like 5 mb left,

Is that supposed to be part of XP? It is the first time I hear from that. Could it be an adware itself who is eating your mem??

Do a scandisk bruv. I got a problem with my computer that if I jolt it a little, it powers down. And whenever a comp has to 'hard boot', it forgets the amount of hd space you've really got. Incidently I just recovered about 4 gigs yesterday ^_^

do you mean the defragmentation thingy? or just a scan for errors on your HD? because i cant see how the latter could help o_O

Just the basic simple scandisk, not the defrag. At the end of every scandisk is a proceedure to check the actual volume of your HD, just to make sure. If you set it to give you the full whack of error messages should any appear, you should get something illustrating that actual size varies from something or other....just give it a shot dammit!

i did the scandisk thing and there werent any errors, i played soldat after it and i got the same problem: soldat just exits to windows (or sometimes it just doesnt do anything, screen freezes). this only happens when i play soldat, not with other programs :/

check the performance tab (ctrl+alt+del) and see if it goes to the top. if it does, it smells adware/virus

http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/topic.php?topic_id=10986

quote:Originally posted by Drama
http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/topic.php?topic_id=10986


this makes sense. if you're running low on memory, windows uses the hard drive to simulate memory, ie, virtual memory, which creates a swap file which can literally fill up a hard drive.

give me your os and amount of memory, and i can tell you how to set the virtual memory settings so it doesn't change anymore.

i know how to set that, i set it to max. 60 MB, and i have over 2 gb left on my HD. problem still occuring :///

i have 64mb... wonder how soldat runs with 32mb (minimun in manual)

oh yeah i forgot to say: ive got 320 mb RAM, that ought to be enough to run soldat right ¬_¬

quote:Originally posted by besserwisser
Did you say you had XP? You might as well know that the recommended minimum amount of memory for WinXP is 512mb

Stop smoking toads and read the official Microsoft site

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/sysreqs.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.asp

When you are unable to find it by yourself you could hardly be right

i have windows ME, and i dont think you need 512 MB to run XP.

I have windows ME, too, and I have a tip: disable system restore.
Note: ignore this if you have already disabled system restore.

Once, I was trying to free up some space, and I ran across this folder called _restore. I went to its properties and, OMFG WTF 12 GIGS??? (this comp has a 20 gig HD btw) Well, after a little searching on google, I found that system restore was the culprit. I don't know what I could have done to provoke it to grow so large, but it can be disabled. First, you should see if the _restore folder is bloated. If you can't find it, type c:\_restore in the address bar thing (the folder may be hidden). If it is bloated, go to the control panel, and click on System. Click on the performance tab, and click the File System button. Check "disable system restore" and reboot. This should delete most of the files in the restore folder.

winXP will run with 256meg, but the more the merrier :P

if you haven't already, do what bman just said, system restore is TEH DEVIL!!!!

yes, that's right.

Also, get a bigger HDD ;)

lol

20 gig, pfft :P

FWIW, Windows XP will run on 20 gig/ 128MB RAM (slightly slower than 256+, but it works)

i only leave explorer and firewall and irc on when i start play

turns out i already disabled system restore, but i checked properties for the _restroe folder: 4.30 GB (4.619.075.584 bytes)!!!

and when i just open the folder i get this:



Download Attachment: [IMAGE] restore.jpg77.85 .jpg

wtf?

can i safely delete this folder? how can i see whats really in it?

(moved to lounge since we're no longer talked about soldat)

just reformat dude

wow holy poop i use to get the same problem with it but not any more i dunno whats different lol i use to have like 3gbs left and then it would show i had like 20 mbs and it would crash :\ but nto any more :P

quote:Originally posted by Tha Doggfather
turns out i already disabled system restore, but i checked properties for the _restroe folder: 4.30 GB (4.619.075.584 bytes)!!!

and when i just open the folder i get this:



Download Attachment: [IMAGE] restore.jpg77.85 .jpg

wtf?

can i safely delete this folder? how can i see whats really in it?


well? can i?

If it lets you, I'm pretty sure you can delete it safely. If it doesn't let you delete it, I'll have to dig up that thing on how you can... In any case it should be killed.

deleting it now, cant place it in the bin cuz it too large o_O. it takes 10 minutes to delete it !

Congrats, your HD is now 4 gigs more empty ^_^