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Title: Help with Decidia (I'm having trouble running it) Post by: Rubilacxe on 2004-07-31, 21:49 O_o I'm having trouble running the map Decidia. Everytime I try to run it, it gives me a message reading:
"Hunk_AllocateTempMemory: failed on 484064" Can anyone help me figure out how to get the map running? It looks like an awsome map from the screen shots I've seen. If it helps, I'm using Windows XP, a Pentium 4 with 2.54 Ghz, 512 MB of Ram, and my video card is a NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600. Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: Tabun on 2004-07-31, 21:53 Oh dear, a memalloc error?
I hardly dare ask.. but is your com_hunkmegs set properly? With the right setting, and those 512 megs 'o ram, it should be working just fine, methinks. Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: Rubilacxe on 2004-07-31, 21:56 I'm unsure whether or not they are set properly, but Decidia seems to be the only map which doesn't work. Everything else runs wonderfully ^_^ .
How do I adjust them and what should I adjust them to? Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: Tabun on 2004-07-31, 22:41 Quote Unusual behavior ************************ If the game behaves in unusual ways check your installation above. If you have missing models or begin showing the wrong models for a certain class be sure to check your com_hunkmegs setting from the console. Com_hunkmegs should be a minimum of 96. We recommend 128 or higher. Rule of the thumb: set it no higher than 3/4 of your available ram, and I've been told bad things happen if it goes above 256, in any case. Although I cannot confirm the latter, I'm running com_hunkmegs 192 on my machine, and I have 512 Mb ram, like yourself. Thus, if I were you, I'd go for 192. This is how you set it: Quote com_hunkmegs - The most important command in Generations. Due to the increased memory requirements of Generations, your Quake3 "com_hunkmegs" setting MUST be increased from the Quake3 default of 56. With 128 megs of system memory, players should set their com_hunkmegs to 92. Players with more memory should set com_hunkmegs to 128 or higher, but no more than 3/4ths of your total system RAM. This command has only become more important in newer releases. As more and more media is created for the game, more and more memory must be allocated to it. Generations Arena loads, on average, over four times the data of vanilla Quake3. To set com_hunkmegs either set the variable in your q3config.cfg file -or- Create a shortcut to Generations Arena with the following arguments: quake3.exe +set fs_game generations +set com_hunkmegs 128 NOTE: DO NOT run Generations Arena by selecting it through the "MODS" menu of Quake3. This will reset your settings (including com_hunkmegs) to the default values of Quake3. If at any time models begin to defer (like seeing a Doom Chainsaw when you have a Machinegun), your com_hunkmegs are too low. If that doesn't fix it, let us know. Quotes taken from the Gen Arena manual, which you should have been reading, instead ;] Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: Rubilacxe on 2004-07-31, 22:48 Ack sorry! I'm usually good at reading FAQs or Manuals before asking tech questions.
Sucess! Decidia works! Beautiful. Props to whomever made it. Thanks Tab for your help :thumb: Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: Tabun on 2004-07-31, 22:52 Glad to read it worked, np mate.
Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: games keeper on 2004-07-31, 22:59 just for a note , the same problem occurs when you play gen on the team arena terrain maps .
mpterra1 mpterra2 mpterra3 ( just so you guys would know ) Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: Phoenix on 2004-07-31, 23:22 Um, no. MpTerra 1 and 3 work fine, I've tested them myself. MpTerra2 causes a z_malloc failure, not a hunk_alloc failure. This is uncorrectable since com_zonemegs never unlatches no matter what you try to set it to. The map is just too big and Q3 can't handle Gen's code file and the map at the same time. Unless Id puts out another Q3 version that fixes this it appears MpTerra2 will remain unplayable.
Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: ReBoOt on 2004-07-31, 23:52 ...And if im not wrong we are doing this mod for quake 3 not team arena?
Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: dna on 2004-07-31, 23:58 Quote from: Tabun I've been told bad things happen if it goes above 256, in any case. Although I cannot confirm the latter, ... FYI, I run com_hunkmegs 512 and I've never had anything bad happen. I know, I don't NEED 512 but... Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: games keeper on 2004-08-01, 00:36 reboot , ever tried to aim the earth sniper on mpterra1 ? or firing doom rockets at an opponent , its on those maps that the classes have major handicaps and skills .
Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: Phoenix on 2004-08-01, 08:49 Reboot: True, but I want map compatibility with Team Arena for 1.0. Playing Gen on those big terrain maps is freaking insane!
Title: Re: Help with Decidia Post by: scalliano on 2004-08-05, 17:11 I have my com_ hunkmegs set at 400 (I have 640MB RAM) and haven't had any problems.
Apart from MPTerra2 (I have enough trouble with that map in standard TA, never mind Gen). |