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I played fine yesterday then today i turn my computer try to start the game and that message comes up. I have plenty of memory on this computer.

UO is a very old game, it doesn't recognize 90% of the memory in your computer. It is very particular!

Once UO is running, your computer fixes any problems automatically!

Likely causes (close these to fix it)
- Web browser open
- email program open
- too many programming running in background

I can't start uo a message pops up telling me about virtual memory and uo never starts up.

This is nearly always because you have something else already using the internet.
Could be a browser, some program that automatically updates, maybe a torrent program.
Once you have UO running, you can restart all of those.

Essentially open up your system processes screen, shut down anything using a lot of memory.
- Web browsers
- Email programs (like outlook)
- voice chat programs
- other video games

Another option, reboot your computer and start UO up right away. We are talking about a game that is closing in on 20 years old!

search forums for large address aware and follow directions fixes 99% of oom errors

Lol come on guys I know how old the game is. Something is wrong here I just tried starting it right after my computer started and nothing it's doing the same thing. I'm officially just mind blown on this problem.

sometimes i have to go into task manager and manually close Explorer.exe, chrome.exe, etc. under Processes.
they tend to take a majority of memory on startup.

Also another problem is I can't uninstall it properly. It doesn't show up in the programs lists from the control panel. Only way to remove was to delete the file location.

if u delete the folder u did uninstall it

Yes I but when I install it again i still get the same issue.

- Game setup as Administratior (VERY IMPORTANT), run in compatability mode for xp service pack 2 or something like that as well.
- Google chrome - click box that disables background processes when chrome is not open (VERY IMPORTANT)

goto your start button type in: msconfig

Go through the list of startup items, odds are that a lot of stuff loads that does not need to load. Laptops need more programs running than PC's. Most of the time I don't let anything boot up with my computer just to keep memory as free as possible. Un-check the box beside the item to disable it from booting when the computer boots. You are not disabling the program, just making it NOT start up when the computer starts up.

Not sure what the items are, do a google search for the command name of the program and the word 'Virus' will narrow it down quickly for you. ie: virus overworlf

Sorry that's not working it keeps doing it no matter what I do. I've done what you told me I've even did some other things I read from other forums with the problem still doesn't work.

Do you have the options set to "Run as Administrator"?

Try this:
http://uoex.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8 ... ilit=large