johnj opened this issue on Oct 08, 2001 ยท 7 posts
johnj posted Mon, 08 October 2001 at 12:40 PM
I have recently purchased an iMac and I upgraded the memory to 128 MB. When I try to run Carrara, it still needs more memory. Any suggestions? I have gone through the extensions mananger to turn off things I am not using. Help.
memaci posted Mon, 08 October 2001 at 12:59 PM
Hi johnj First which OS are you using? If your using 9 or ealier I can suggest the following. Go under the "Get Info" file in the operating system and up the ram allocation for the Carrara application. To do this first quit Carrara. Second find the Carrara App. file and click once on it and leave it highlited. Then go to the "Get Info" command you can find it under the "File" command when you are in the Finder (desktop). You will see three options, click on memory and make your adjustments. Give it as much ram as possible while not choking off the OS. I used to run Carrara with 128 megs of ram just fine on a 300mhz G3, but it is always great if you can get more ram. I hope this helps, good luck. memaci
johnj posted Mon, 08 October 2001 at 3:00 PM
That is what I do not understand. I have 128 MB Ram, on OS 9.1. The problems is that with no other applications running, Carrara will not start because there is not enough memory. It says that it needs another 5MB free. I even went to the exentsion manager and shut down a few unneeded things, but the program will not run. When I lower the minimum memory requirements for the program, it says that the program will crash. (and it does) I have been running it on a G3 with OS 8.6 without any real problems. Any input is appreciated
johnj posted Mon, 08 October 2001 at 3:11 PM
I was able to reduce the memory taken up by the OS from 39.2 MB to 32.7 MB (more than the 5MB it requests) but it still will not start C. There is a 98.5 MB block of memory still available, which is more than the minimum but less that the recommended.
willf posted Mon, 08 October 2001 at 4:38 PM
Ram is "dirt cheap" nowdays & you should get the maximum ammount for your machine if you plan on doing much 3D work. You may be able to use virtual memory in the meantime but I'm not sure about that.
Miss Nancy posted Mon, 08 October 2001 at 5:44 PM
my experience with Mac OS 9.x is that Carrara needs at least 200 MB physical RAM. use minimal extension set (quicktime, ati, opengl)
ewinemiller posted Mon, 08 October 2001 at 7:28 PM
I'm running Carrara on an iMac OS9.x and have Minimum size set to 51200 and Preferred to 102400. To see if was a memory issue, I set preferred to 72000 and it still launched fine. You may have a different problem besides memory. Eric Winemiller Digital Carvers Guild Freeware and commercial 3D extensions http://digitalcarversguild.com
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