Full throttle / The Dig Fixed?

roteero2001 · Post by **roteero2001** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:02 pm

hi , its been a few months since the last time i checked this forum.
i only managed to run full throttle on my 6670 after deleting the video files cause it kept freezing 5 seconds after into video start, but the game would crash when the bike fighting scene start. also managed to run the dig after deleting video files.

are there any new fixes to these problems with latest builds?

Anotherguest · Post by **Anotherguest** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:50 pm

Well.. hmm FT requires around 12-18 memory free to run after ScumMVM has been started so .. well that could be possible on a N70 perhaps.. I have gotten into game on P910, but it crashes into the first bar scene. But video intro is cool

Moddas · Post by **Moddas** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:23 pm

That's quite sad, that the videos don't work. but ok. now I know how to get FT run on my phone. you said 12-18 mb space. is this the only requirement to get the videos (and the biker scenes) runnin?

thx

Anotherguest · Post by **Anotherguest** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:58 am

Yes and I mean at least 18 mb of free working memory.. i.e not available space on C: or D.

Moddas · Post by **Moddas** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:55 am

hmmm.... is there no possibility to expand the memory? because FT always crashes after the bar scene after I got my keys and want to ride my bike.

Anotherguest · Post by **Anotherguest** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:01 pm

Ehh.. no .. only way is to buy a new phone. The N70 has quite alot of memory free.. >25 I think.. and perhaps some of the E series phones.

Another way is to dont use any skins, dont run any other apps etc. But that does n't give you that much. Further optimization in the game engine might help, the video is using quite alot of memory (up to 8 mb just for playing videos.

jtan · Post by **jtan** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:46 pm

There is a way to create a dummy video file (smaller and maybe blank), like some guys do in ripped game versions? This save some memo space?

clem · Post by **clem** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:40 pm

jtan wrote:There is a way to create a dummy video file (smaller and maybe blank), like some guys do in ripped game versions? This save some memo space?

since the problem seems to be about RAM and not storage space, the better approach would probably be to disable video playback in some versions of ScummVM? Mind that I don't know if the video player needs that much ram or if the game/engine itself is that RAM hungry

Moddas · Post by **Moddas** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:10 am

or another good posibility would be to emulate some RAM, like the EMM386 in older DOS versions.

clem · Post by **clem** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:45 am

Moddas wrote:or another good posibility would be to emulate some RAM, like the EMM386 in older DOS versions.

EMM386 does not emulate RAM

Anotherguest · Post by **Anotherguest** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:09 am

The videoplayer is very memoryhungry. It can play up to 16 streams at once, and each stream is allocating 0,5 mb of memory of playback buffer.. And well just the intro is like 3-4 stream at places.. So the further you play the more you can see how the memory required increases.

Maveric · Post by **Maveric** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:17 am

In the good old days you were able to run FT on a Pentium 75mhz with 8mb of RAM... :-/

Anotherguest · Post by **Anotherguest** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:24 am

Well.. see you are not running the original engine are you? And this C++ code has been optimized to run on as many systems as possible, and I don't think that the memory reqs. has been thought off that very much actually.