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#1 2009-06-13 00:58:20
- FantasyTales
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- Registered: 2008-06-02
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memory
whenever i try to go more in depth and make better projects it comes up with something saying squeak etc... runing out of memory and stuff like that. why does this happen, because after like 2 hours of work losing everything is really irritating and honestly i dont plan on redoing it for a couple of weeks because i just don't have the time. why does this happen and is there a chance that you could make this happen less often for future versions? i have to admit i don't know much about it 
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#2 2009-06-13 01:03:57
Re: memory
It is saying that you ran out of ram I think. No real way around that I think.
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#3 2009-06-13 08:55:08
Re: memory
Well, I've gotten this message before, and I think that it means that Squeak, what Scratch is built with, is running out of memory for running that project. When I got the error message, it had a TON of graphics.
There is no real way around this, as archmage said. The only way you can partially prevent losing all your data is to save the program periodically.
As for future versions, maybe Squeak or Scratch will increase its memory. Who knows?
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#5 2009-06-13 15:50:06
- daydreamgirl
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Re: memory
That happened to me. My project was small, and it had practically NO graphics whatsoever. The problem seemed to be that a friend sent it to me over e-mail, but he's been able to send me other projects. The project itself crashed the program, not anything else. It had nothing to do with the memory.
FantasyTales, try saving all your sprites to the desktop, and creating a new program. Kind of annoying, but it worked for me.
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#7 2009-06-16 09:38:56
Re: memory
fanofcena wrote:
Increase Your Ram and it will be gone never came on my 2gb Ram old computer.
Just increase Your Ram
2GB RAM? That's insane (for me, anyways. I'm used to my 256MB RAM).
All you really need to do is that, but it can be expensive. My computer always complains about running outta RAM.
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#8 2009-06-16 10:33:26
- demosthenes
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Re: memory
You can buy ram plugins real cheap nowadays
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#9 2009-06-16 14:00:09
Re: memory
Before I bought more RAM, Scratch often did the Text Glitch. After increasing RAM, Text Glitch appears rarely. S-1.4 also has optimized code and it has better RAM management (I think so).
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#10 2009-06-17 13:30:42
- FantasyTales
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Re: memory
my rams actually ok, i just checked and i have 2 gigs, yet still with a 7.6mb project it messed up.
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#11 2009-06-17 13:31:48
- FantasyTales
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Re: memory
if anyone wants to know how to check their ram (which im sure will now pop up in this forum post) go to start then control panel, then system, and it should be under general (this is for my computer (windows xp)
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#13 2009-06-28 11:05:55
Re: memory
coolstuff wrote:
fanofcena wrote:
Increase Your Ram and it will be gone never came on my 2gb Ram old computer.
Just increase Your Ram2GB RAM? That's insane (for me, anyways. I'm used to my 256MB RAM).
All you really need to do is that, but it can be expensive. My computer always complains about running outta RAM.
Ram is really very cheap now a days based on your pcs ram type
ddr1 2 gb is available for 4000 rs in india
DDR 2 is abailable the same for 1700 rs in india
DDR 3 is somewhat very pricy but i dont think ur pc might need DDR3
Make sure u check the prices in your country
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#14 2009-06-28 11:07:15
Re: memory
coolstuff wrote:
FantasyTales wrote:
my rams actually ok, i just checked and i have 2 gigs, yet still with a 7.6mb project it messed up.
I don't htink that really has anything to do with RAM.
Its with graphic memory and RAM together with background processes
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