Can't find sufficient memory??

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BrianT1701

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jun 7, 2003

• #1

When I try to run this old game called Rescue!(a star trek game) I get an error stating "Unable to find sufficient memory. Please restart Rescue!" I am trying to run this on a Power Mac 7500/100 with 48 megs of ram installed.

This game runs on my Performa 430 with a 16mhz processor and 10 MB of ram.

What is the deal, and why won't this more powerful machine run this game?

Thanks in advance.

 

maradong

macrumors 65816

• Jun 7, 2003

• #2

hm , is the memory correctly " seen " by the os ?

 

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BrianT1701

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jun 7, 2003

• #3

It does say I have 48 MB. Everything else works but this small game.

 

Nermal

Moderator

Staff member

• Jun 7, 2003

• #4

IIRC you can do a Get Info on the game and allocate more memory. I haven't done this for years so don't remember exactly what to do.

 

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BrianT1701

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jun 7, 2003

• #5

I tried that. Still did the same thing. The error is a error with the game as the box that pops up has the game icon next to it.

 

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andyduncan

macrumors regular

• Jun 9, 2003

• #6

depending on how old the game is it might have trouble running on a machine with that MUCH RAM. I seem to remember "legacy" (IE: pre system-6) apps not wanting to run on system 7+ machines with lots of RAM. Could be pulling this out of somewhere though.