real player says im out of memory

[steppenwolf]

i think its wrong. its only 64 megs but it worked before , its ver 8 i think on win 95

maybe its too old

[Mike3d]

realplayer is a memory eater(poor coding i think) even on my computer windows me,512mb ram duron 1.3mhz if i open it up more than once i.e send it back to taskbar then open it up again i get messages i.e your system is dangerously low on resourses do you want to end task (what ever realplayer is)

i have heard the new realplayer holds a lot of spyware with it.

also on startup it eats resourses maybe try disabling it.

run regedit

hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\run\

it will be in there somewhere cant remember what it is as i have already deleted it out of my registry something with SYSTEMHIDEPLAYER (so you cant see that it is loaded.

hope this helps mike




hope this helps mike

[fink]

It's realplayer one that has the hard to remove spyware in it. Steppenwolf is using 8 (he thinks ) in which the call home feature and the load with window's startup can both be turned off in it's pref's.

It is a resource hog though, no doubt about that, but I suspect it's got as much to do with it being Win95 than anything else. Does it do that when all other progs are closed?

[AlaricD]

It may also be that the HD is low on space and the swap file is growing too large--- but not big enough to accomodate the needs of RealPlayer. Mapping the swap file on another drive or just freeing HD space may help.

[steppenwolf]

ok thanks all

its a whopping 2 gig drive partioned and c has 1 gig free , its not that, i thinks its yahoo someone was idle on list

[steppenwolf]

so i plugged in my pentium 100 mhz which is slower than the 266 one and it has 32 megs ram half of the other one and i can get bbc newshour on the real player 5 that came with the free i internet disc .. so why is that? i think i clicked on bbc and npr with 266 and i couldnt get anything -- it says out of memory

[fink]

Try changing the buffering options.

In view/prefs/connection. Lower the time buffer and see what that does.

[steppenwolf]

i had it at 6 seconds and 30 and it wont play

[fink]

I'm pretty much out of suggestions except one last ditch attempt. Try reinstalling realplayer.

[steppenwolf]

i got real player off silly dog netscape ver 4.8 and it didnt work and off real site too . both dont work

thanks fink

[steppenwolf]

maybe its the modem or sound card ?

[AlaricD]

Windows is a complicated thing-- it could be some problem with Windows and memory management. You could disable Virtual Memory (first, after noting whether it is set for Windows to manage it, or if it was set to a specific drive, reboot, and on the way back in to Windows use F8 to bring the startup menu and choose "Command Prompt Only."

At the command prompt, we must delete WIN386.SWP.

If the swap file was set for Windows to manage it, then it should be in C:\WINDOWS. Issue these commands in sequence in that case:

cd windows
attrib -s -h -r win386.swp
del win386.swp

and then reboot the computer, and turn virtual memory back on, and reboot once more and check Realplayer.

If virtual memory was set to a specific drive, it will be in the root of that drive (therefore moving it to the root of C:, if C: were the drive specified in the manual settings.) In this case, we will need to change to that drive letter containing the swap file, and then issue the commands:

attrib -s -h -r win386.swp
del win386.swp

and then reboot the computer, and turn virtual memory back on, and reboot once more and check Realplayer.


If this fails, the next step would be to reinstall Windows in a different directory (perform a Custom install), and install Realplayer to this new Windows installation, specifying new directories for it, as well. (Your original Windows installation should remain intact, a simple edit of MSDOS.SYS should restore it.)

[steppenwolf]

thanks alaric . that seems complicated . in all the computers ive had running which has been many ,ive never had this problem with real player, and im mainly curios as to why it happens,... i keep getting disconected , i think it may be modem is weird . is that possible?

[steppenwolf]

the computer worked ok before , the only thing i changed was i put in a different harddrive some thing called fujiistsa or something. maybe the drive is weird and too slow to get real player ?

[AlaricD]

If the drive works, then, no, it's not "too wierd", and it would have to be excruciatingly slow for RealPlayer to have trouble with it-- you'd already notice other Windows problems were that the case.


Sometimes the "complicated" solution is the only thing that has a chance of working. When your coronary arteries are 90% clogged, that simple solution of "good diet and exercise" is too late-- the quadruple bypass is the only way. Sorry if it all sounds complicated-- it's presented pretty much step-by-step. Perhaps you can round up a more advanced user to help you out at your machine. Print those instructions for reference, too-- that way it's all right in front of you should you attempt to do it.