Program needs 3mb of virtual memory

[Toastyone]

I have this little macromedia program that I use from time to time. I just reinstalled windows and now it will not work, it keeps saying that I need 3mb of virtual memory to run this application :blink: I have 768mb or ram why is it doing this? Is there a place that I give certain programs virtual ram :huh:

Edited September 17, 2004 by dvds_ect

[x2cube]

what program

[OPaul]

Some programs like Adobe Photoshop require you to have some virtual memory, so if you disabled it reenable it.

[The Burning Rom]

Is this a hydraulics demonstration program by any chance? We used to have one that instructors used at school. It was a flash based, and it would always promt for 3mb of virtual memory. The ONLY way we found to get around it was to set the systems' virtual memory to way more than it actually needed. I seem to remember setting it to 3000. The machines had 40gb drives though so it wasn't that big of a deal.

My suggestion would be to slowly increase your virtual memory till you get to a point where the program actually runs. That's the only way I know around it.

AFAIK, there is no per program setting for it :no:

[J the Monkey]

I have had this hapen with a couple of programs as well. Is it an older program? If so, try going into properties and change compatability mode. Worth a shot! :)

[Toastyone]

  The Burning Rom said:

My suggestion would be to slowly increase your virtual memory till you get to a point where the program actually runs. That's the only way I know around it.

I did what you said and slowly increased it, but like you it did not work until it reached 3000mb which is fine because it is a 80gig hard drive. Thanks for the help :yes:

[Garry]

weird :)

[PseudoRandomDragon]

Windows itself requires some small amount of virtual memory. For me (I have 512MB) I need at least 2MB.