map editor-out of memory:increase swap file size error

posted on September 4th, 2012, 1:22 am

I've searched all of A2 Forums and FO and haven't found why I'm having this issue. I pulled the space dock fed starbase out of borg incursion 2 and put in my personal build. Edited the weapons to match my game and checked everything else, even all the " marks. Everything is fine. I added the fspaced.odf to my ef_rstat.odf file in the other folder so I could add to the map using the editor. Every time I try to add the new station on the map using the editor it crashes to desktop with the out of memory:increase swap file size error.

Also now, in the editor the ef_comba file (for the combat ships) is the only one that now works for the feds, the ef_ncomb, ef_named, ef_rstat, and ef_stati selections all end in the same crash and I never even edited those files. Every single other selection in the map editor is fine except for the 4 of 5 federations selections. I'm stumped as to what it could be? Corrupt files? Thought maybe I saved them in the wrong format? Any help would be appreciated.

Oh, I do have another build of armada 2 on my machine and just copied over the sod, odf and textures to that build and I can use the editor just fine to place that same staion on the map. So one build it works and one it doesn't?

posted on September 4th, 2012, 2:33 am

Have you tried building the object in question and seeing when (and if) it crashes?

It sounds like a missing or incorrect 'race' label, though the out of memory crash is typical of a quotation mistake.

posted on September 4th, 2012, 2:58 am

Just tried playing in my personal build and after picking the races and map as soon as I click launch the game crashes to desktop with that same error message. It doesn't even get to the load screen? I checked the tech tree entries and they look fine where I added it.

What's strange though in another install of armada 2, the station loads fine in the map editor. I've compared multiple suspect files between the two installs and can find no differences save the additions I made to my personal build. I'm wondering if I accidentally opened a different file by mistake and then saved it. God only knows which one it could be?

posted on October 25th, 2012, 12:36 am

I pulled the space dock fed starbase out of borg incursion 2

This could be the source of the problem. There are many mods where ships could use custom sprite nodes for either damage vents, running lights, or so on. You would have to go into the SOD file with a node editor of some kind and remove any nodes you do not see referenced in the sprite files of the copy of A2 you are running.