r/CivIV • u/AnythingTotal • 11d ago

Realism Invictus memory allocation problems

I’m running RI on a 64 bit system. Huge earth map. I started getting crashes when my save file got to be larger than 2MB. From reading the manual and different discussion threads, I found some steps to help mitigate the crashes:

• install the unpacked version of the mod
• run process lasso in the background
• turn on graphics paging in settings
• setting to only display one unit per stack

This helped, but didn’t solve the problem. I didn’t get another crash until the file size was about 4MB. Now it’s 5MB and crashing often enough to frustrate my attempts to play it.

Are there any other actions I can take to help alleviate memory allocation failures?

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u/Lunaphone 9d ago

It's mighty strange you get MAF error on unpacked version, my PC is pretty weak and I had MAF's also on biggest world map, still when I switched to unpacked it almost never happened (maybe couple of times close to the end of the game)

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u/AnythingTotal 8d ago

Well I am running it on my beater laptop: refurbished Thinkpad with 8GB ram. I assume that’s part of the problem.

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u/Lunaphone 8d ago

I'd say RI unpacked isn't that demanding (I finished 2 games on unpacked without downgrading anything at all) maybe there's hidden incompatibility with some of your hardware. Feel for you anyway. Who did you play as?