Woe is me!! At last level in Secrets and when I try to start the game now, I am getting this Error: Memory Access Violation!! I have played the level before (and even bet it a couple years ago). I get the same error trying to start any of the Wonderland games. I click on the desktop icon, click on play then... error! The MAV error started just recently. I tried to get into Secrets and got the error so then I tried the other games to test the issue and got it on all of them. Fire Island demo works, Intensity works, Frazzled does NOT work. I recently installed McAfee and it obviously thinks I lead a way too dangerous online life - could it be impacting this? Copy of error attached...
(reposted from WA Editor General Discussion)
MAV at start-up
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MAV at start-up
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It looks to me like you have too much going on at once. All those programs open at the same time impacts on the memory until there isn't enough left to open the game.
You can up the virtual memory yourself to see if that sorts the problem. Here's how ...
Control panel - Performance and Maintenance - System - Advanced - in the performance box click 'settings' - then the advanced tab and in the Virtual Memory box click 'change'. The virtual memory should be 1.5 times your RAM but you can change it. Check the 'custom size' button and change the amount in the 'maximum size' box. Try making it twice your RAM and see if that works. You can make it more than that if you want to. If you have a partitioned hard drive like I do then you can do it for each one.
I hope that works for you.
You can up the virtual memory yourself to see if that sorts the problem. Here's how ...
Control panel - Performance and Maintenance - System - Advanced - in the performance box click 'settings' - then the advanced tab and in the Virtual Memory box click 'change'. The virtual memory should be 1.5 times your RAM but you can change it. Check the 'custom size' button and change the amount in the 'maximum size' box. Try making it twice your RAM and see if that works. You can make it more than that if you want to. If you have a partitioned hard drive like I do then you can do it for each one.
I hope that works for you.
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Since it used to work, there must have been some change to your computer recently that causes this error.
McAffee is likely not the cause (my guess). Possibly you installed game that installed an older DirectX version, or your video card drivers were somehow reverted to an older version?
Run a complete virus and spyware check, and see if you video card drivers are up to date - those are usually the culprits.
McAffee is likely not the cause (my guess). Possibly you installed game that installed an older DirectX version, or your video card drivers were somehow reverted to an older version?
Run a complete virus and spyware check, and see if you video card drivers are up to date - those are usually the culprits.