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Subject:	Solved Virtual Memory problem! (was: I can't get the RCX 1.5 software to run on WinXP)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.rcx
Date:	Sun, 9 Dec 2007 18:05:48 GMT
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Okay, I got it working. Here's the short version of the problem: I installed the RCX 1.5 software on a WinXP machine with 1GB of memory. The installation went fine. When I tried to run the program, it beeped and hung with a blanked screen. After using End Task to kill "probe.exe", I found an error from "Director Player" that said I needed at least 3MB of virtual memory. 1GB is WAY more than 3MB, so that just doesn't make sense. Solution: It works when my "initial" VM setting is 3000 MB. I'm not sure what issues I'm likely to run into if my VM is forced to be a minimum of ~3X the machine's physical memory, but it does let the Mindstorms software run. -- Tony Hafner

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		Re: Solved Virtual Memory problem! (was: I can't get the RCX 1.5 software to run on WinXP)
(...) Might be a 16bit/32bit problem (or similar 24/32bit), precisely 1GB (coded on 32 bits) could return 0 when truncated to 16 or 24 bits by old software. 3000MB truncated to 16 or 24 bits might be OK. Philo (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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		Re: I can't get the RCX 1.5 software to run on WinXP
(...) I've got some more info, but it doesn't seem to help. Searching on "Director Player" and "Virtual Memory" turns up tons of hits on other software, totally unrelated to the RCX. But in every case, the listed workaround is the same- increase (...) (17 years ago, 4-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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