TMPGEnc. virtual memory problem.

[Poppa_Meth]

I was about done with a 3 hour encode only to find out when I turned the PC on that windows had tried to adjust my virtual memory and cause TMPGEnc to stop midway through. I'm fairly sure there is no way to resume the encoding, if so please let me know. is there any way to ensure windows XP doesn't do this again? I'm not real familiar with how virtual memory works.

[AdamRA4]

VM usually doesnt change on its own. You can adjust the VM to what you want or let Windows do it for you (recommended). Heres how:

Right Click My Computer and go to Properties.
Then go to the Advanced tab.
Go to the Settings Tab in 'Performance'
Go to the Advanced Tab and choose 'Change' at the bottom.
I would do 'System Managed Size' but if you want to do your own, Take the ammount of RAM you have and multiply by 1.5 to get the initial size and by 3 to get the maximum.

Let me know if that helps.

[Poppa_Meth]

thanks, I'll give it a shot. Its set up to let windows do in now. I've never had anything like that happen before myself. just came back after three hours and had a warning in TMPGEnc that it was out of memory and a pop-up from the system tray saying Windows was adjusting the virtual memory and programs needing it would not have access.

[AdamRA4]

Check hard drive space. It you dont enough, delete some stuff, uninstall programs, delete porn , JP. But seriously it kinda sounds like you are running out of HD space.

[Poppa_Meth]

I've got 90 gigs free so I don't think thats the problem. More than likely windows is just being a bitch.

[tatty]

Same thing happened to me. Half a gig of RAM and 120 gig HD, and XP was still bitching about 'virtual memory' and trashing my applications, something I haven't seen since Windows 3.11.

I'm no expert but sounds like Adam's right. For what it's worth I changed the upper value from XP's setting of 794mb to 2gb and it hasn't bothered me since (or should I say, Yet).

[Poppa_Meth]

I've used it since without any more problems. I think it has something to do with me opening task manager and ending most of the user processes. I've generally done this in the past to free up memory and system resources while encoding. however since then I've just unplugged my modem and left everything else running and its worked fine.