Virtual Memoray considerations ("Director Player 6.0 ... requires at least 3 MB of free virtual memo

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Trying to install Cool Edit Pro 1.1 on my new XP HE SP2 machine, as soon as
setup starts/tries to run, I get the error:
"Director Player 6.0
This program requires at least 3 MB of free virtual memory to run"

Googling, I get advice (under different scenarios) for dealing with this
error by changing the virtual memory settings in various ways --
1. set to SYSTEM MANAGED SIZE
2. set custom size, minimum and maximum both to 200 MB (I think they mean
initial and maximum?)
(noting "this value can vary from configuration to configuration"
without saying to to figger out how it varies :-)
3. set custom size, initial = 192 MB, leave maximum alone; try 128 MB if
192 doesn't work.

Question 1: Are the above good advice for this situation (running setup)?
any other/better suggestions?

Question 2: What are general considerations for setting virtual memory?
Should I reset to current (manufacturer set) values once Cool Edit is
installed?

Current settings:

total paging file size for all drives: 1524 MB
Drive C: Paging file size 1524-3048
custom: initial 1524 max 3048
Minimum allowed 2 MB
Recommended 1521
Currently allocated 1524

Oh yes -- 1GB RAM, 160 GB HD.
 
Hi, ggull.

Have you read MVP Alex Nichol's page on virtual memory in WinXP? That might
answer some of your questions.

Virtual Memory in Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

But it might not help with the specific problem of installing Cool Edit Pro.
By the way, how old is your copy of Cool Edit? See this web page telling
about Adobe's purchase of the program in May 2003:
Cool Edit Pro is now Adobe Audition
http://www.adobe.com/special/products/audition/syntrillium.html

RC
 
R. C. White said:
Have you read MVP Alex Nichol's page on virtual memory in WinXP? That might
answer some of your questions.

Virtual Memory in Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php
Click to expand...

Thanks for this reference, RC. I just took a gander at it, and it looks
like it has the general kind of info I'm looking for.
But it might not help with the specific problem of installing Cool Edit Pro.
By the way, how old is your copy of Cool Edit? See this web page telling
about Adobe's purchase of the program in May 2003:
Cool Edit Pro is now Adobe Audition
http://www.adobe.com/special/products/audition/syntrillium.html
Click to expand...

I had noticed that (going to the syntrillium site boots you over to adobe).
My CEP 1.1 is definitely old, but adequate for my purposes. Syntrillium had
supported it until last time I upgraded my system, and I had downloaded
upgrades to 1.2a. (I vaguely recall there may have been some problem with
running under XP without an upgrade to 2.x.)

Unfortunately, Adobe doesn't seem to be maintaining the Syntrillium website
or otherwise supporting CEP per se. Their only interest is in getting me to
"upgrade" to Audition at, I think, several times the price I paid for the
original CEP. 'Taint gonna happen, Adobe. There are other options.
 
Just in case somebody is google/dejanewsing for this particular problem of
installing an old version of Cool Edit Pro, this is what worked for me:
Fix 1, using "system managed size", did not help.
Fix 2 -- didn't try it
Fix 3 worked and CEP installed transparently. I used initial size = 192 MB,
left maximum size at 3048, the value set by manufacturer. (manufacturer set
initial size was 1524).
It takes numerous clicks of the mouse to get to where you set these values.
See the reference kindly provided by RC White in this thread --
Virtual Memory in Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

I haven't set the initial size back to 1524, and no problems so far. From
the discussion at the above link, it seems that 1524 wasn't necessarily a
good choice anyway.
 
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