Army Builder freezing

[b_hall16 at hotmail.com]

Rob,
I'm running AB 2 on a K6 3, a AMD 900 Thunderbird. I have no problem
with either system.
Bill Hall


>From: wes <noelvh@bigfoot.com>
>Reply-To: armybuilder@yahoogroups.com
>To: armybuilder@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [AB] Army Builder freezing
>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 08:43:37 -0400
>
>HI Guys,
>
>I was running a K6 2 350 (IBM crap) back in august I upgraded. I had
>some problems using the ab2 very minor. What I did was uninstall every
>thing data file too. Then I reinstalled every thing and was up and
>running. I need it to play the world wide 40k game.
>
>Wes.
>
>Rob Bowes wrote:
>
> > I'm baffled on this issue. It's conceivable that the problem is tied
> > to the
> > size and complexity of the data files, but I really don't know. You've
> > got
> > plenty of RAM and disk space available, so it's not a matter of
> > running out
> > of resources. The only characteristic of your system that is "odd" is
> > that
> > you have a K6 CPU, although there are a zillion K6 processors out
> > there and
> > I'm sure this problem would be reported by lots of others if it was an
> >
> > issue with the K6. I'm curious if anyone else out there is using a
> > K6-based
> > system. And I'd like to know if the other user with this problem is
> > also
> > using a K6 or something entirely different.
> >
> > How long does it take the 40K files to load when they are successful?
> > On my
> > machine (similar performance specs to yours), it takes about 7-8
> > seconds.
> > Does your system take substantially longer than that? Please let me
> > know,
> > since it could be a clue with this.
> >
> > Could you identify the two versions where the problem first started
> > occurring for you? Let me know the version that first started failing
> > and
> > the version that last worked without any problems. If you give me that
> >
> > information, then I can work with Colen to figure out what new
> > functionality he started using in that release. Perhaps that will shed
> > some
> > light on where the problem might be and enable me to figure out what's
> >
> > going wrong inside the code.
> >
> > Thanks, Rob
> >
> >
> > At 09:15 PM 4/3/01 +0100, you wrote:
> > >What operating system are you using?
> > >
> > >Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows 2000 (Have it dual booting have
> > the
> > >same problem both sides)
> > >
> > >What are the specs on your computer system?
> > >
> > >384 MB of Ram (PC100), K6-2 450MHz Processor. 45 GB of Harddrive
> > Split into
> > >3 Mega partitions.
> > >
> > >How large is your swapfile?
> > >
> > >Um around a 1 Mega, had some spare Drive lefted.
> > >
> > >How much free disk space do you have?
> > >
> > >Um last check 2 GB (At least until I installed Visual Studio which I
> > just
> > >got)
> > >
> > >Which version of AB are you using?
> > >
> > >Version 2.1 (1.4 CD)
> > >
> > >
> > >It doesnt happen everytime, but it always slow loading the 40k Files
> > (I
> > >guess that because of the number of them now), it as only started
> > happening
> > >with the last 4 updates, actually when back to an older one to check,
> > and
> > >didnt have the problem.
> > >
> > >David
> >
> >
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