Temporary folder growth causes disk full and hangs game |
| Project: | Space Empires V |
| Version: | 1.17 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug |
| Priority: | critical |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Description
Game was played for a couple of hours, until the end of game turn didn't continue (blue bar full and no progress). Autosave was set to 2 turns, so that was my first suspect. I checked in file manager and found disk free space at 0 Bytes, while before starting the game it was 1,5 GBytes. I checked the savegames, but it turned out they were rather small in size. I then checked the temp folder and saw it filled with ... 1,5GB of temporary files! These apparently only get cleaned whenever the game is terminated. Game requirements state 500MB. Please update box information or better - change temp folder behaviour.
Small or large hard drive,
Small or large hard drive, one and one half gigabytes of temporary files is reaching a level of absurdity I have thus far only seen from Windows itself.
Defragmenting the hard drive does not generally free up any significant amount of hard drive space. All it does is organize the files on the physical hard drive as they are on the operating system's representation of the hard drive, thereby making file access run more smoothly.
Whether or not Shrike has a small hard drive or a small partition of the hard drive is beside the point: Having one and a half gigabytes of temporary files that have not likely been used for ages is not a good thing.
On the other hand, is it temporary files we're talking about, or the Windows swap file? The general convention is to have at least three times the available RAM free in hard drive space for the Windows swap file. It was two times the available RAM with Windows 98, but then Microsoft released the bloated Windows XP that offered nothing in terms of optimization and only presented more bloat, features, and security holes. Talk about progress.
I agree
I agree which is why all my machines have two drives at minimum ion with OS only and one with programs on, more now I have discovered and battered into submission RAID arrays. A lot of people don’t defrag at all and the amount of rubbish one can accumulate over months is very large.
Its a also worth getting rid of games etc you don’t play any more and downloads as drives however full fill up faster than you think. More over they behave oddly when nearly full and always have.
I wouldn't worry about this.
I wouldn't worry about this. Running Windows XP with under 2 GB free is dodgy to start with, so the problem isn't Space Empires.
Work round
try defraging your drive and clearing off any rubish you have on the drive (internet frag etc) as if you are running out of disk space you probably need a biger drive