Effectiveness of memsaver?

[Appers]

Okay, so I've always used memsaver in Civ IV. For those who don't know, it's an option in the .ini to lower memory usage but disables "device loss"- minimising civ. Together with a few other memory saving attempts, did the trick of making the game play flawlessly for me. Of course, since I used it along with the other memory saving attempts, I still have no clue how useful it was alone. I suspect it had quite an effect on the game, however, and so I've kept it 'til now.

Call it a few too many accidental windows-key-pushings.

So, a few questions. Firstly, does memsaver still count device loss for minimising in windowed mode? I imagine that kinda defies its point if it does.

But more importantly, how effective to the actual, unmodded, vanilla, 1.61 game is it? Is it a negligible thing, one that can surely be done without, or the unmissable memory saver of the game?

Cheers.

 

[Sisiutil]

I'd like to try this out. Could you post exact instructions on how to make the modification?

 

[Solver]

Memsaver is and will remain unstable, and yes it will crash if you push the Windows key. However, the memory saving is quite noticeable - IIRC, it's at least three quarters of your video memory amount that's saved, from RAM.

 

[Reignking]

Use Memsaver and play the game windowed -- it has never crashed for me that way.

 

[Solver]

It will crash, still, if you alt-tab out of it. Or at best, it will result in total graphic corruption.

 

[Reignking]

It will crash, still, if you alt-tab out of it. Or at best, it will result in total graphic corruption.

Hmm -- not for me, and God knows I have enough performance problems w/ this game...in fact, it even worked fine on my older machine.

 

[Ceritoglu]

This sounds like it could reduce the horrendous waiting times I'm burdened with. Could you perhaps post some exact instructions relating to this "memsaver" (sounds like it could be a miracle cure for my ailing pc)?