Anyone else had this problem with memory??

[LakeTahoeGuy]

When i first installed Civ IV it ran great on medium graphics setting, but about a week ago i started it up & got a message saying the setting had been automaticly changed to low because of not having enough memory?!?! I also found that the map has large sections that stay black even if one of my units are there! I have not installed any new programs or hardware in the weeks since this problem began. I am complete at a loss as to why this is happening.

I've ran my spyware program, lowered my system restore memory allocation setting, gone through msconfig to make sure nothing i didn't need was starting up that i didn't need, but none of it made a difference!

Does anyone have any possible solutions for this very frustrating problem???

My system info.......
-Pentium 4 2.99 GHz
-1.0 GB Ram
-not sure what video card i have, but if it worked fine before why would it suddenly not?

Someone told me that it's possible to go into the windows task manager & close most of the processes prior to playing a game. Is that true & if so, which processes should i not stop?

I appologize if this spacific problem has already been addressed. I looked at alot of the older threads but didn't see this particular problem addressed.

 

[crunch]

Hmm, perhaps you could try to modify the graphics settings back to medium.

Perhaps something is wrong with your memory (?) then - try the memtest utility (I don't have experience with that though).

As for closing processes, this can be tricky. If you really want to try that, use google to get information about each process (just search for, e.g., "explorer.exe"), the first link quite often describes the process and tells you if you can close it or not.