Sound Issues with MTW and XP

[drone]

You don't really want to do it, it's just a pain, but having a fresh install usually cleans up a lot of residuals. Sounds like you are just borderline on memory, and after a while you reach the threshold. So I guess it's save early, save often, and reboot every so often, but at least it works.

Other things to try: Go into the Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs, and check for extraneous programs you don't need or are OBE. Older Acrobat versions and stuff like that. Check the notification area of the taskbar, a lot of times little useless updater programs get installed and eat up a little memory. Maybe try CCleaner to cleanse the registry.

[Dyabedes of Aphrodisias]

You don't really want to do it, it's just a pain, but having a fresh install usually cleans up a lot of residuals. Sounds like you are just borderline on memory, and after a while you reach the threshold. So I guess it's save early, save often, and reboot every so often, but at least it works.

Other things to try: Go into the Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs, and check for extraneous programs you don't need or are OBE. Older Acrobat versions and stuff like that. Check the notification area of the taskbar, a lot of times little useless updater programs get installed and eat up a little memory. Maybe try CCleaner to cleanse the registry.

I went through Add/Remove Programs and couldn't find anything in particular to clean up. I dusted around as much as I knew how, deleting old documents and programs and such by myself in the hard disc. I'll try the CCleaner idea. Thanks for the ideas.

As an update, I played for hours last night to the completion of my Vikings campaign, and that one battle error remains the only one I had. So far so good. If the error stays around, that's fine, as long as it only shows its head once in a campaign ;-)

[drone]

Sounds like you've got it sorted then, I guess MTW just doesn't like paging. Learn something new every day.

If you have the extra cash and can actually find compatible sticks, getting an extra gig of RAM would probably fix this for good, but if you are happy with the current situation there is no need. Enjoy!

[Dyabedes of Aphrodisias]

Sounds like you've got it sorted then, I guess MTW just doesn't like paging. Learn something new every day.

If you have the extra cash and can actually find compatible sticks, getting an extra gig of RAM would probably fix this for good, but if you are happy with the current situation there is no need. Enjoy!

Really? Hm, I might have to go with that idea just for the benefit of more RAM. I know I have expansion space, and I know I have a slot for an extra hard drive, too. Both of those would make this computer last quite a while longer, and add many hundreds of hours more wear to my MTW disc.

Thanks for all the help, drone! I really appreciate it.