[softwarelist] Re: OPW -- "not enough memory"

In message <4583D81F.3050304@xxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> writes
I was smiling about the thing with the dictionaries, I recently reinstalled XP (on a new hard disc, you'll be relieved to hear) and I forgot to install the dictionary.
Having moved all my OPW files and software to another computer, I have a problem ... so far with one document. This is a 318Mb file created in OPW 2.90 (20 Nov 2006). I can open the file and print it (to PDF), but if I attempt any editing I get "not enough memory". There was no such problem on the old Win XP computer: Athlon 2600+ with 2GB RAM and GeForce4 graphics card with 128Mb RAM. The "new" computer is a Pentium 4 3GHz with 2GB RAM but only onboard graphics (Intel Extreme Graphics 2). I have set virtual memory to the recommended value (3058 MB) and done Misc>clear undo buffer. But to no avail.
No smiles about this though. One idea, Windows can be set up to allocate 3GB or 2GB to user programs. We have talked of this before, it may be a red herring because ISTR that applications have to be built so that Windows knows they are capable of handling addresses over 2GB (negative or high bit addresses, just like mess things up on RISC OS). So I don't know if you configured your old Windows system to use 3GB?
I suppose it might be that something is making OPW allocate memory in a different way on the new machine - however things like applets, etc. etc. should only use tiny amounts of memory. Loading/closing documents before you load the problem one might have an effect. 



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