It just won't load

[Quena]

Hmm..ok =/, i guess I will have to.
One last question, can RTW and RTW:EB run on a 64 Bit computer (Windows XP)?

[Mediolanicus]

I also only have 512MB.
At first EB wouldn't load on my PC either. Or when it would reach menu it would CDT immediately.
Then was until I found this thread. http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=100384

Now I'm playing EB without problems...

[Tellos Athenaios]

Yes but please do keep in mind that 1GB swap/page files corresponds (to the OP's) RAM in a ratio of 2:1.

If you find your page/swap file is lower than that 'magical' 1GB (or 1024MB) of RAM, it is a good thing to not touch it. In general it's a good thing to be careful with swap/page file because it may seem simple but the OS *has* to maintain a pagefile table *in* your RAM + do the disk I/O operations.

There are two reasons why excess page/swap file is therefore actually a resource hog:
1) The page table will get significantly large (each page corresponds to 1 entry in the page table @4 bytes at a 32bit system, but @8 bytes on a 64bit one)
2) The reason outlined in that thread (the OS will need to do a lot of work for a lot of data which simply can't be used efficiently: keep in mind that your phyiscal memory (RAM) determines how much pages can actually be loaded into it...)

Therefore I am very skeptical about a magical number of '1GB' of page file. It may work out just fine on certain systems, and I am willing to believe most systems designed for XP will indeed benefit from this (the 512MB RAM category) *but* "XP guru say magical number is" is not convincing for me.

[Mediolanicus]

I'm not saying it's something that will magically work. I'm just saying it worked for me. Not just the page file btw...

Anyway, without it I can't play EB. I will get a new pc someday, but in the meantime I can manage with this temporary solution.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I was commenting to what I read in *that* thread (the OP said 'its what XP gurus reccommed', basically) -- not to the thread itself which is overall actually quite helpful and contains lots of valid/valuable tips/observations. Sorry for the misunderstanding.