Help getting a HUGE map to compile.

[whitewolf]

Hi all, I'm an old timer recently getting back into it.

 

So I'm making this huge tatooine map at 28000 units long. No matter what I cannot get the safe_malloc failed in allocation of xxxxxxxxxx bytes error to dissapear. I've tried the usual blocksize, chopsize, lightmapscale etc. to no avail. I'm running 32 bit XP with 8gb ram.

 

Any advice?

 

[Asgarath83]

What kind of building do you do?

[Xycaleth]

You've run out of memory. You can try adding -lomem but this would drastically increase compilation time. Failing that I don't think there's a lot you can do.

 

On a related note, Windows XP won't be able to use all 8GB of your memory. It will only use about 3GB because it's a 32 bit operating system.

[Boothand]

I don't know if you can use this, since it says 64 bit required, but if you haven't tried, it could be worth a shot.

 

http://jkhub.org/files/file/1335-q3map2-2gb-memory-usage/

[Szico VII]

Use -lomem on your light compile.

 

Or, even better, try compiling using the q3map2 above but you will need a 64bit OS. WinXP cannot use more than 4GB of RAM, so its absolutely pointless having 8 in your system.

[whitewolf]

Wow Szico your still around. Yeah the lowmem switch did the trick thanks.

[Szico VII]

No worries! Its -lomem though (not lowmem). If youre using an old Q3map GUI that might be why, it gives it the wrong name ;D