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#AA1.1/Win95 cut n paste

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#195596From: Prudential ServiceOct 16, 1995 12:23 PM
I recently received v. 1.1 of Ani Studio, and it loads fine under Win95. However, if I attempt to cut and paste videos I consistently get "not enough memory" errors. I'm running with 16MB RAM, and have plenty of swap space… anyone else seeing this problem. Any resolutions? Thanks. -Dan Kasun
#195618From: dave aguilarOct 16, 1995 3:34 PM
>> I recently received v. 1.1 of Ani Studio, and it loads fine under Win95. However, if I attempt to cut and paste videos I consistently get "not enough memory" errors. I'm running with 16MB RAM, and have plenty of swap space… anyone else seeing this problem. Any resolutions? << there are many probably causes for this. here are a few things to check: memory can be taken up by other applications. close down all sessions, remove or disable screen savers and wallpaper. close out all sessions and reinitialize Windows from scratch so that any previous use of swap file space is scrapped. depending on the work you're doing, 16MB may not be nearly enough. for large movie files, more RAM may be required. work in smaller chunks (segments) if needed. most folks i knpow use 32MB or more for basic work in this application. check you system configuration files. even though you have 16MB, all of it may not be available depending on how it has been managed. make sure your swap file is 50MB minimum for 16MB RAM. 50MB is not "plenty"… rather, adequate, perhaps. i usually recommend 100MB swap for basic tasks with 16MB. keep us up to dtae on your progress, let us know if these suggestions help. -dave
#196148From: Prudential ServiceOct 19, 1995 3:12 PM
Dave- I forgot to mention that this happens when working with videos of ANY size. Even a one-frame bitmap cannot be copied to the clipboard (for example, I go through the sprite tutorial "THEDIVE.BMP" and I can't even copy the selection of the diver). I did go in and bump my swap file up to over 50 meg, and I even tried adding an additional 8MB of memory. Nothing seems to help. Any other ideas? Thanks! -Dan
#196166From: dave aguilarOct 19, 1995 6:42 PM
>> I did go in and bump my swap file up to over 50 meg, and I even tried adding an additional 8MB of memory. Nothing seems to help. << i do. some basic things we might be able to try: do you have another machine with Windows 3.x or Win95 loaded that you can test the program on? this may isolate the problem to a specific configuration. was AAS 1.1 the last application installed? if not, try another install. many applications use similar support library resources and may have overwritten what AAS needs to function. have you tried working with a new session instead of pre-existing files? let's see if the loading process is the problem, or if its related to particular functions. -dave