Fatal Error Memory Allocation Failure

09/23/2008
Hello knowledgeable folks! I need some help with a problem that has been driving me mad.

I have a high end system with 2GB RAM (Corsair DDR2 with EPP enabled @ 1066MHz) and am running WinXP-SP3. My video and audio drivers are all current. I only play single player games. I am good about keeping the most up to date patches and new versions installed. I have been playing Civ4:BTS v3.17 - FfH 2.033f (with media pack installed) & Fall Further 042L. I am currently playing a game with these settings: Big and Small/Epic speed/Emperor difficulty/Huge map/Flavour Start/Broader Alignments/Living World. I have confirmed that this issue also occurs with all non-essential Windows background applications disabled.

The recurring problem is that I see this screen and am forced to restart Civ4 every time I want to load a game. It occurs... when I load a quickload (from within an active game), when I load from an autosave, and when I load any single player game. I have no problems loading a game the FIRST time, after program startup.

I really do not have any major issues other than an occasional CTD. I have been playing with this for a month now and it has gotten progressively worse. It started once in a while, then about every other time, and now occurs every single time.

NOTE: This may or may not be important but I notice that after I load a game, the interface is in transparent format. I reset it to the default by hitting <ctrl>-I twice.

Any advice? Please help!

1) FF 0.42 L is for patch G of ffh2
2) huge maps are VERY ram intensive, 2 gigs is not enough for them. so you can either get more RAM or play smaller maps, that should solve your memory allocation failure problems

Yes, Jackpot, as Gekko said, the problem is with the Huge maps, I think.

I have 4gb of RAM (I have Vista, though) and get those same errors when I re-load like you do in the later game. It is maddening, but there is nothing I know of that you can do except start all over again and load the game, etc.

I didn't used to Quick Save/Load very much (some may say it is cheating ), but with the CTDs I was getting, especially in FF, I started saving after almost every turn. Nothing is worse when you are in the later stages of a game on a Huge map when it is 3 minutes or more between turns and getting a CTD. You have to go back to the AutoSave and that is not fun.

And, yes, I have to admit I have gone back when I lost that Veteran unit with the 99.9% Combat Odds. In the later game, as you mention, though, that would often get me a Memory Allocation Failure.

It all boils down to those Huge maps we love so much. I never had the MAFs on Large maps, but the Huge maps with a lot of civs are so much more fun!