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Out of Memory errors_multiple texture folders

John Hubbard

John Hubbard

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Sorry to trouble with this old chestnut in FS9. I've had several of these recently in different geographical areas. I am running XP x32 with 3GB RAM, 3.8 GHz, and bags of disk space.

Going through my addon scenery texture folders I found a couple were empty and there was one empty scenery folder. These I deleted.

Examining my FS9/texture folder I found I have a second texture folder i.e. FS9/texture/texture_extra; and a third FS9/texture/texture_extra/texture. All of these texture folders contain texture files. None are empty.

Clearly I must have done some texture transfers a long time ago and these may finally be catching up on me. FS9 may be looking in the wrong place for some of these texture files. Hence the OOM.

Many of the files in the FS9/texture and FS9/texture/texture_extra folders are duplicates but there are between 50 and 80 files of the sort below in the FS9/texture folder which I think belong somewhere else:-

013011011310231an.agn
013011011310231fa.bmp

I assume that .agn files are autogen. I have searched for duplicates of these without success both in my 'flying PC' and in a backup copy of FS9 on a laptop. Either they are in the wrong folder, or they are not needed.

I'd be grateful for advice 1) on what to do about the clumsy texture folder structure and 2) if anyone can advise me what to do about the .bmp and .agn files.

Apologies for the long winded post! Thanks.

John
 
The files you mention are photo-scenery/autogen near LROP, Bucharest.

Check your addons for this region.
 
Thanks very much, George. At one time I had a freeware 'photoreal' scenery for LROP - called LROP 2007. I uninstalled this because it was a memory hog.

I checked back with the original .zip and....the errant .agn and .bmp files are in there alright. The installation guide said to put them into the FS9/texure folder which is what I did. I guess I will just have to delete these manually now.

What about my texture folders? Should I copy the two texture subfolders into the FS9/texture folder? And overwrite or not depending....

Thanks, again.

John
 
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