Thanks for the reply. I am short of the 2.5G on my XP having only 2047MB (tried adding a gig but computer wouldn't accept it but that's another story). My (or my wife's) Vista has a 3000MB but it is a dog (also another story).,
actually wether you can unzip or not has nothing todo with your memory. Windows 32bit is limited to 4Gigs of memory. That's ALL memory! You have 1024MB video mem? then there's 3Gigs left. you have a default windows install? then windows can eat up up to 2Gis for it's own system and background processes. CAN! windows might also suit itself with just 1Gig+1Gig for video memory. Regardless if you have 4 or 8Gigs RAM, the 32bit system itself leaves only 2 gigs in above mentioned scenario left for your applications.
If you have only 2 gigs of ram, on 32bit system, windows will fill the other 2gigs to it's max of 4ggs by using the pagefile. So wether or not unzipping has enough memory left, has nothing to do with it, windows will always go max as possible for it's apps(which is normally 2gigs, and 2gigs left for the system, or by using some minor tweaks to the registry can be set to 3/1 gigs..)
so to add to mamba's comment. He's right about the 2Gigs restriction. partly..
because it's the default restriction! There is a registry tweak for windows
to make up to 3gigs free for apps on windows 32bit. But, be sure what you
are doing by changing this setting. Like I said, you DO NOT want to try this if your video card already uses up to 1Gig!
or simply use 64bit windows, it's limited as well, but depending on your windows version to 8, 16, 32, 128gigs a MAF or inzip-memory limit will NOT occur THAT EASILY on Windows 7, enterprise or ultimate... BUT, it is still limited!!!! the OS can only use the max of the windows version.. the application itself, Civilization in this case, is however still limited to 4Gigs!!!!!!!!! even if windows 7 ultimate can adress 120Gigs to any application, this only goes for 64bit applications! Civilization is compiled 32bit! it will dfinatly not be able to use more then 4gigs. Although, on ViSa, on mega huga maps with 40 AI's, I never ever widnessed even after 2500turns to use more then 2,5gigs... And I did run some 100 tests in total that went autoAI this far into the game..
So, if you use a small 256MB graphic card, use 4Gigs of RAM, disable page file, and switch windows system to use only 1Gig, you'll have 3Gigs for applications, unload all from your services etc, and you'll be able to play civ without MAF on a 32bit system.
The problem has not been not being able to run this animal, it is I can't get it to unzip completely on either computer.).,
If you want to extract zipped files, tried 7zip? can extract even the wierdest and largest zipped files..
I may have to wait on enjoying it until the mod is ready for prime time.
Lol, this mod is finished actually. WoC itself is nothing more then an empty mod allowing other modders to ADD stuff ... the WoC itself shouldn't be more then a few MB.. the other hundreds of MB are default added mods... so woc is ready for prime time, but of course, any added stuff should be converted properly.. hence, this process will never be done..
Again thanks for the reply, it is good to know that the zip download in fact has another zip inside (which I found to be very unusual,
noe, actually not. Why unusual? in the old days with bad internet connection and package loss this was a very common method to avoid loosing to much data using the zip repair libraries inside a zip file to refix any missing data.
also, for the illegal community, this used to be a method to make it more difficult for spy-forces of the government to see what's in a file... you zip in several different methods, and Feds and other criminal organizations have a hard time to see what you're transfering..
today maybe it's not needed anymore because today for transfering illegal data, you use secured connections, encrypted, binary, par, etc.. surely woc has nothing illegal in it(I hope) but putting a zip in a zip, has it's history! maybe outdated, but definatly not unusual..at least not untill recently
As for LandR.
This is not ready!!!!!! only 5% has been implemented.. unfortunatly the guy working on it, has his wife on his back. not allowing him to continue modding untill university is finished
So my advise, don't use LandR or other unfinished stuff....