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Crash while datpacking

Started by CasperVg, March 15, 2008, 10:49:58 PM

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CasperVg

While I was datpacking my plugin files, Datpacker suddenly crashed and gave me "Close" or "Ignore". I tried ignore and now my RAM-usage is tru the roof and datpacker doesn't respond at all. I have tried closing usingthe taskmanager, but it wont start up.

SC4 Datpacker v8c
Vista Home 86x - dependencies installed
Asus Notebook F3S
2047mb RAM
Core2Duo T7250 @ 2.00 Gz

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jplumbley

How big is your plugins you are trying to pack?
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CasperVg

3.11 GB. I've tried datpacking again, and it worked now. I assume that I was using to much additional RAM while the datpacker was doing its job.
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BarbyW

You should try to keep the dat packed dats at no more than 1 GB. You were packing too much with 3GB.
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wouanagaine

I hope that 3 Gb is your plugins size, not the size of one subfolder of plugins ?

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CasperVg

That's the plugin folder. The folder itself weighs about 1.1 GB
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dragonshardz

The best way to solve this problem is to split your plugins folder into chunks of about 1 GB and pack them seperately.

IE, Make folders A, B, and C. for example: (documents/simcity4/plugins/folderA). Remove folders B and C from your plugins folder (temporarily). I usually put them in a plugins_protected folder that you will have to create yourself. Pack folder A, then remove folder A to your protected_plugins folder. Then move one of the unpacked folders into your plugins folder, pack it, remove it, and so on.

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