Hi All

I'm finishing up my second rat map and when i compile with extra in the light options radiant give me an error "out of memory". I had the same problem with my fart house map and I had to release it with a fast compile. Is there a huge difference in quality between fast and extra?

Thanks
Old Fart

edited on Jul. 27, 2009 11:51 am by OldFart

there is a huge difference between fast and extra, but if you uncheck fast and extra it will compile lights at "normal", which is close to extra.

OK i will try normal then... but how come extra gives me the "out of memory" error? And I have tried both maps on 2 computers both running XP with 4gb of ram. As soon as cod4map.exe reaches 1.6 gb of ram used BOOM error message. Is my light grid contributing to the huge memory need? or what can I do to compile with extra?

Thanks
Old Fart

You have only Windows XP 32b, 32bit systems can use only 4Gb for all system memory (RAM, Cache, GPU,...) total and 2Gb(plus minus) for one aplication => system can't adress more memory and it write 'Out of memory error'
You must compile it on normal, fast ligting, or install 64b system...

it has nothing to do with the physical memory, the compiler reaches the internal software limit and aborts.

see here: Out of memory error

Thx Sevenz I'm trying to make sense of it. My map is tall since its rat style. I will test and try to fix it.

im working on grid files too right now

http://wiki.infinityward.com/index.php/Creating_a_grid_file

perhaps use a small pink grid and lots of the blue grid

i cant compile lights with "extra" on my game pc with xp but my media centre does fine with xp64 same amount of ram in each (4gig) and the game pc has way higher spec but xp has a memory limit so is poo....pity my media centre takes 4 hours longer to compile lights :P