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Thanks to all for the help and advice!

Hunter


On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:37:07 +0100, Marcin Grzegorczyk
<mgrz...@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:

>The switch has two effects:
>
>1. It prevents you from loading any game saved with a larger vehicle 
>array (in other words, the 'morevehicles' switch must be set the same or 
>higher as it was when the game was saved -- otherwise you get a "Game 
>load failed" message; normally you would probably get a warning).  This 
>is the primary source of memory savings, since normally TTDPatch 
>reserves memory for the largest array possible (more than 4 MB).
>
>2. The cache for the ordinary TTD sprites is set to 800 KB instead of 
>the usual 4 MB.  This may mean more frequent disk accesses, which in 
>turn *may* affect the performance -- but frankly, I doubt you'll notice 
>it much, unless you have a really slow hard disk.
>
>Note, however, that new graphics are loaded separately, and add to the 
>memory usage anyway (but on the positive side, they don't require disk 
>access during the game).  Thus, you may get out of memory again if you 
>add many new graphics sets to newgrf.cfg.
>
>BTW, I've checked the latest sources; the behaviour of the switch hasn't 
>changed since 2.0.