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Re: Solved Virtual Memory problem! (was: I can't get the RCX 1.5 software to run on WinXP)
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:42:49 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Tony Hafner wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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
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