Anyone have any ideas why the following could give me an error (162) insufficient memory error starting with menu?:

BMAP Test_frame,<tpanel.bmp>;
BMAP health_bar,<health.pcx>;

BMAP menu,<menu.pcx>;
BMAP background,<bkgrd.pcx>;
BMAP healthb,<healthb.bmp>;
BMAP increasb,<increasb.bmp>;
BMAP decreasb,<decreasb.bmp>;
BMAP 1b,<1b.bmp>;
BMAP 2b,<2b.bmp>;
BMAP 5b,<5b.bmp>;
BMAP 10b,<10b.bmp>;

VAR bparticles,<bpartic.pcx>;
VAR gparticles,<gpartic.pcx>;
VAR PART_SPOT;
VAR PLAYER_HEALTH = 100;

The total size of all bmps and PCx's combined is less then 200k.

I have 512 meg of ram and a 32 meg video card. 3DGS is the only thing open after a reboot.

I'm just trying to set up for a couple of panels! This is very frustrating, please help.

- WildCat

What card do you have?
You could have a Viper for all I know. (32 megs memory, but has a tex memory default size of 256*256)

For what it's worth, I have a
ASUS GeForce AGP-V6800 DDR SGRAM v3.75

(With the most recent drivers)

- WC

[This message has been edited by WildCat (edited 28 January 2001).]

I got nearly the exact same system as you, only I've only got 128 megs of ram, parhaps one of your memory sticks has gone bad.

My start up diagnostics don't show any problems... is there a utility that will check?

Error 162 appears when there's definitely no space anymore in RAM or on the hard disk. Maybe your Win98 virtual memory is set to a fixed size or is allocated to the wrong drive.

Is it possible you have a lot of textures in the texture manager loaded with the level?

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Introspection seems illogical
www.definc.com

Zidentia: I didn't even load a WAD with the level. The only texture in use is "Default"

JCL: I am running windows 98, and have the "Let windows manage my Virtual memory" option checked. I have 4 10 Gig partitions on my haed disk and 3 or more gig free on each partition.

The partition tha 3DGS is installed has over 8 gig left.

Any other ideas where I should look?

- WildCat

Hate to say this, but check for a virus.
They just LOVE to wreak havoc with Ram!

For instance, if you're running Win9X and are unfortunate enough to have "Stealth-C" all you'll get for typing in "win" is a bounce back to the DOS prompt - without even so much as a GPF Error message!

-Neut.

Hmmm... thats a long shot, since I just updated my files and ran last Wednesday, but I have nothing to loose so I'll try it. I would think that a virus would impact more than just one specific application. I have no problems with any other programs.

- WildCat