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- From: ecsjols@klecsd.ericsson.se (Joakim Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: How can I make WB use less CHIP mem?
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 08:52:49 GMT
- Organization: Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
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- On Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:48:42 GMT, benjamin@ritz.mordor.com (Joseph Thomas)
- wrote:
-
- >
- >I recently upgraded my '030 A1200 with 16 megs FAST. I made a
- >Toolmanager button for Pinball Illusions on my hard drive. When I run
- >PBI, the game runs all the way up until I want to play a particular
- >table, and then the game stops, saying there's not enough free
- >memory. I'm almost sure this is because despite the gobs of fast mem
- >I have available, PBI wants a lot of chip mem, which seems half
- >depleted (down to 1 meg), by the time my OpusWB comes up.
- >
- >Does anyone know if there's a way to force all my applications to use
- >fast mem on my WB? I would assume that some things need to steal chip
- >mem, but I'm not sure what they'd be. If it makes a difference, I'm
- >running a 256 color Super72 Hi-res desktop.
- >
- >Can anyone give advice here?
-
- Your problem is that your WB screen takes somewhere around 700Kb chipmem
- (depending on what resolution you use).. Lowering the amount of colors down
- to 128 or 64 would probably free enough chipmem to be able to run PBI.
-
- /Joakim Olsen
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