Limiting Warcraft 3 memory usage?

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I used to be plaged by this fatal error
http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=7231&cat=500
everytime i played dota, and it turned out that Warcraft just didn't know what to do with 4 gigs of RAM, so it was solved by removing 2 gigs every time i played, but this is a pain in the butt. Someone told me that in vista you can set limits as to how much memory an app can use, but i don't know how and i can contact that person atm. If anyone know, please help.
 
I'm surprised that removing 2GB of RAM worked for you, as I've seen this error on my PC (2GB of RAM), my main file server (1GB of RAM) and my friend's computer (1.5GB of RAM). :confused:

I've not heard about limiting the amount of RAM that a process can use in Windows Vista though. I'll see if I can find some info on it.
 
I haven't heard about being able to limit memory usage, but I have heard about being able to edit .exe headers so they can use more memory. The only down side is I'm not sure if that will effect any piracy checks blizzard may have
 
sinj said:
I used to be plaged by this fatal error
http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=7231&cat=500
everytime i played dota, and it turned out that Warcraft just didn't know what to do with 4 gigs of RAM, so it was solved by removing 2 gigs every time i played, but this is a pain in the butt. Someone told me that in vista you can set limits as to how much memory an app can use, but i don't know how and i can contact that person atm. If anyone know, please help.
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Have you tried just running the game in compatibility mode? Might get rid of the problem.
 
Qwikslver said:
Have you tried just running the game in compatibility mode? Might get rid of the problem.
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I haven't yet, i'll try when i get home, but i changed to Vista 64bit because i was having the problem in xp 32bit though
 
I tried win2000 and 98 this weekend and still the same thing.
 
ha ha ha... funny thing is, I had this exact same problem... after watching a few seconds in the credits it would crash... so, the way I solved it, it i butchered about 7 copies of warcraft 3, yes, 7... and I finally got it going. now my warcraft 3(the one i play with) runs like crazy :D, never seen it crash :D

I got 1 gig of ram though
 
sinj said:
I used to be plaged by this fatal error
http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=7231&cat=500
everytime i played dota, and it turned out that Warcraft just didn't know what to do with 4 gigs of RAM, so it was solved by removing 2 gigs every time i played, but this is a pain in the butt. Someone told me that in vista you can set limits as to how much memory an app can use, but i don't know how and i can contact that person atm. If anyone know, please help.
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I had the same issue - Faulty ram - removed one module - and it now never crashes.

I had bought 4gb of ram and 2gb turned out to be faulty. Transcend ftl.

J
 
I get this a lot as well, so does a friend. I have read up on this and it seems to be a problem with the map and not hardware related. I play tankies a lot and I've seen that when there is bots and the Hunter tank (if you know tankies) it almost always crashes. Otherwise, I never get a crash. The friend of mine runs 2gigs of ram with XP and his crashes a lot more than mine... He submitted it to blizzard and they said it could be heat or if it is a custom map, a problem with the map. :confused:
 
jsheed_sa said:
I had the same issue - Faulty ram - removed one module - and it now never crashes.

I had bought 4gb of ram and 2gb turned out to be faulty. Transcend ftl.

J
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I will try remove the other 2gigs and see, but i've run mem test and that stuff and played the massive fps titles and all has been ok, just warcraft. I think it might be like sharkbait says and the map, but it's done this on a few of the dota maps.
 
I know ppl get a lot of fatal errors online because of ppl using hax programs to show the map etc...
But i don't think it's the same error i mean y would you get memory can't be read error if someone else is using a hax program.
 
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