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[Nagash]

Finaly worked by added virtuel memory. Seem to work fine now!

[JimTheDM]

Birko I think you are on to something there. I was having the same out of memory errors and tried what you suggested and not copy the anim5 files and it works. I will try to play the game and see if I experience and problems.

+Nyx what does that file control and is it going to be a hinderance if we do not have that loaded as it seems to be the root of the memory errors?

Jamkul

[kaighn]

Thought about that also. Tried to bump it up from the original values by almost three times its current values. Maybe i might need to just uninstall and reinstall.

[JimTheDM]

Finaly worked by added virtuel memory. Seem to work fine now!

When I added additional Virtual Memory it did not do a thing and my virtual memory was set at 9216. I even let windows control it and it still errored. I hope there is an easy fix as I would like to use the whole patch not just pieces.

Jam

[Nagash]

my virtuel memory is at 3096mb... try to restart your comptuter with the new change? was at 2096mb when it didnt work for me. After restarting with the changed memory, even without closing anything, worked fine.

[JimTheDM]

my virtuel memory is at 3096mb... try to restart your comptuter with the new change? was at 2096mb when it didnt work for me. After restarting with the changed memory, even without closing anything, worked fine.

Mine was at 3072 prior to patch and then I increased it when I got the out of memory to 9612 and rebooted and still got the out of memory error. I am wondering if there is a way to increase just UO virtual files size to accomodate the new file size.

Jam

[mully]

memory issue in art.mul and artidx.mul files only. patch with all others there are no memory issues due to size etc etc.

tested one by one until i found the files causing the issue. possibly a bad item causing the entire issue. your virtual or physical memory will not make a difference as I tested on a 16gb of physical memory which is overkill for any UO 2d process ive seen to date.

noticed someone noticed anim5 also... but i am running that file with no issues. i was actually expecting sounds to be the issue as they load on client start while other muls shouldnt be suspect until they are used...

[Cornbread]

Does anybody have a copy of anim5.mul and anim5.idx they can share, the old versions? For the people, including me, who didn't backup anything prior to replacing the files.

[JimTheDM]

Does anybody have a copy of anim5.mul and anim5.idx they can share, the old versions? For the people, including me, who didn't backup anything prior to replacing the files.

Cornbread PM me in game and i can get you those files.

Jamkul

[+Nyx]

If you do not patch all of the files you are extremely likely to experience game crashes, as well as graphical glitches and invisible items/monsters. The game will not be functional for you once the patch content is implemented in-world.

The files are not corrupt, however some computers seem to balk at the size of the entire patch, so if you added anim5.mul and then installed the files in a different order you'd end up having a problem at, say, sound.mul. Believe me, I tested this about 500 times.

In most cases, reinstalling your client and/or increasing your virtual memory will resolve the problem. If you are still having issues after that, then none of us really know what to tell you, unfortunately. Your system probably needs some sort of upgrade. This patch has run successfully on systems from an ancient netbook on windows xp with 1gb ram, to beastly systems running 7 with 12gb ram. All of those systems occasionally had the memory error but were able to play by closing other programs, opening uo, and then opening the other programs normally.

Some third party programs for UO may not be compatible with the patch - it would be a similar issue. The version of the UO client that Excelsior uses was never meant to load files quite as large as the patch has made them, and occasionally those programs freak out when trying to load or access the files. And unfortunately there just aren't any magic answers out there, so few free shards have ever added this much new content and the version we run on is so old that we never found anything beyond 'increase your virtual memory' or 'upgrade your computer' in our extensive searches.

The staff will fiddle with things some more to attempt to figure out solutions for those of you who can't run the patch at all, but do not install only some of the files. Be patched entirely or completely unpatched, or you're likely to experience worse problems down the line. The best I can do right now is re-spread the patch mobs over the files further, but this is difficult and lengthy and will not necessarily help all of you anyway. I'll give it a try and get in touch with a couple of you who aren't able to load it at all.

[kaighn]

Simple reinstall and patch worked. Thanks again for all the great new content. It looks awesome!!!!

[Dramoor]

memory issue in art.mul and artidx.mul files only. patch with all others there are no memory issues due to size etc etc.

tested one by one until i found the files causing the issue. possibly a bad item causing the entire issue. your virtual or physical memory will not make a difference as I tested on a 16gb of physical memory which is overkill for any UO 2d process ive seen to date.

noticed someone noticed anim5 also... but i am running that file with no issues. i was actually expecting sounds to be the issue as they load on client start while other muls shouldnt be suspect until they are used...

I am pretty sure it is a Razor and AssistUO issue. If you open without Razor or AssistUO you will not get the issue at all. Or just close out some programs that are using up virtual memory before opening with razor and assistuo.

[kaighn]

It wasn't for me. I tried just opening the UO client and it still failed due to memory issues. But a simple reinstall fixed it right away.

[+Nyx]

I am currently playing on an updated patch version that has significantly smaller file sizes. I'm sending this to a couple players to test. If this works for them, I will release it shardwide.

[Nass Karr]

How can I tell if the patch went through properly? I'm not sure I directed it to the right location.