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Re: Quake 4 crash - malloc failure for 1398256

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From: EvilBill
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:50
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Major Ursa wrote:
> On Thursday 02 February 2006 21:11 OscartheGrouch wrote:
>
>>
>> "EvilBill" <quake2lives@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:44f2clF1tce0U1@individual.net...
>>> Major Ursa wrote:
>
>>>> So no overclocking?
>
>>> Nope, no overclocking of either my CPU or graphics card. I don't
>>> have enough
>>> cooling for that.
>
>> You might go into setup right after a crash and see what temp the
>> cpu is running.
>
> If there is no OCing then that should be OK. But I have to agree
> that it certainly looks like a memory/bus timing problem.
> You might try reset the BIOS to its defaults/failsafe settings.
>
> Another possibility is that you'r running a lot of background
> processes and that your virtual memory settings are wrong. Just a
> suggestion, probably ok.
>

Looks like it was the virtual memory. For some reason it was only reading
the swap file off the C drive, and not off another hard disk which was where
I'd actually *put* the bugger, LOL
I re-allocated it to C: and hopefully that'll fix it.

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From: "EvilBill" <quake2lives@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.games.quake3
Subject: Re: Quake 4 crash - malloc failure for 1398256
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:50:29 -0000
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