Problem running out of memory
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blueodessey
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http://lifehacker.com/5915921/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-disk-space-analyzer.htm
https://windirstat.info/
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows.
Note: if you are looking for an alternative for Linux, you are looking for KDirStat (apt-get install kdirstat or apt-get install k4dirstat on Debian-derivatives) or QDirStat and for MacOS X it would be Disk Inventory X or GrandPerspective.
Please visit the WinDirStat blog for more up-to-date information about the program.
On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-disk-space-analyzer.htm
https://windirstat.info/
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows.
Note: if you are looking for an alternative for Linux, you are looking for KDirStat (apt-get install kdirstat or apt-get install k4dirstat on Debian-derivatives) or QDirStat and for MacOS X it would be Disk Inventory X or GrandPerspective.
Please visit the WinDirStat blog for more up-to-date information about the program.
On start up, it reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views:
- The directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size,
- The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away,
- The extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.
cascaderailroad
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My photos, and Trainz take up 95% of my disc, on my laptop, I suppose that I should take my photos and put them on a dedicated external USB hard drive, as I don't think Trainz will run well if installed on an external USB hard drive. I too am getting nervous with the disc showing only 2.78GB of 110GB ... I think I need a new laptop anyway, as my Toshiba Satellite 105 is ancient
blueodessey
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Wins is known to crash on HD space of less than 5%, i had it happen at work once, cost me 1.5 days lost productivity, and red face excuses to my boss on late reports,,, grrrr.
Also yes on external for storage, I've heard folks run Trainz on external too, but your usb bridge even if 3, fastest, not the same as network bridge on board between drive, board and ram memory connections, others may know better, but i was told bandwidth on external never equals same as mother board bandwidth, for what it's worth... MULTI Terra drives r cheap now
Wished i hadbetter news for you Sir Dave!
Also yes on external for storage, I've heard folks run Trainz on external too, but your usb bridge even if 3, fastest, not the same as network bridge on board between drive, board and ram memory connections, others may know better, but i was told bandwidth on external never equals same as mother board bandwidth, for what it's worth... MULTI Terra drives r cheap now
Wished i hadbetter news for you Sir Dave!
You can by using additional hard drives and extending the volume across the additional drive. You need to backup your data first before you do this, however, because the data has to be written to the new sectors.
In the end you are running a software, as opposed to hardware, managed RAID 0, which means it's not as fast as a hardware-controller connected RAID 0, but it is faster than a single drive. The problem though is RAID0 setups are not exactly safe for long term use without a good backup due to lack of fault tolerance. This means if one drive in the pair crashes completely, you will lose everything so having daily backups is more than just a good thing. In this case, they become mandatory!
The way around this issue is to use a RAID 1 or RAID 5. A RAID 1 adds in a third drive, but this is not used and instead works as a parity drive so if one should crash, the other lost bits can be figured out (don't ask me how it's done), and you'll have your data.
A RAID 5 goes one step further with an extra drive or drives setup as a mirror plus the parity of RAID 1. This setup is a bit slower, even a bit slower than RAID1, because data has to be mirrored to one drive while it's being written to the data drive, as well as, to the parity drive. In the end it's quite safe for your data because if a drive should die, the mirror will kick in and fill in the space, and the parity will ensure the data is never lost.
Anyway I don't think you need all that extra info but in the end you can actually extend volumes with Windows NT and up. In Windows 7 this is controlled through the Disk Manager, and in Windows 8 and up it's handled through either Disk Manager, or a new thing which is actually a bit easier to use called Storage Spaces.
John
The obvious first thing to look at is what can easily be got rid of.
Use Disk Clean up - Type Disk Cleanup into the search box and run it. Suggest using the clean up system files especially if you have had the Win10 update. If it's never been done you could reclaim a few gigabytes of space.
If like me you have a large collection of images for textures, move them to an external drive or even burn them to DVD.
Use Disk Clean up - Type Disk Cleanup into the search box and run it. Suggest using the clean up system files especially if you have had the Win10 update. If it's never been done you could reclaim a few gigabytes of space.
If like me you have a large collection of images for textures, move them to an external drive or even burn them to DVD.
cascaderailroad
New member
I use "cleanup disc space" all the time, and copy my slew of downloads to an external HD all the time ... I have come to the conclusion that Trainz needs to be sent to another new PC, that is dedicated to Trainz
I will probably use my HP m8100n Desktop, (that I just purchased 8GB of ram sticks) for Trainz, and possibly another new gaming desktop dedicated to T:ANE in the future for @ $1000
I will probably use my HP m8100n Desktop, (that I just purchased 8GB of ram sticks) for Trainz, and possibly another new gaming desktop dedicated to T:ANE in the future for @ $1000
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Open windows explorer.
Right click on 'C:' (where you are highlighted).
Left click on properties.
Left click on Disk Clean-up.
Choose which boxes to tick on the left & then it will show you how much disk space will be saved.
Then left click Clean up system files.
Decide whether to proceed!
This only applies to System files, not ones that you have chosen to save there.
Right click on 'C:' (where you are highlighted).
Left click on properties.
Left click on Disk Clean-up.
Choose which boxes to tick on the left & then it will show you how much disk space will be saved.
Then left click Clean up system files.
Decide whether to proceed!
This only applies to System files, not ones that you have chosen to save there.
Check that you haven't got the automatic Trainz backup set to 7. This will fill your hard drive faster than any other program with Gb's of un-needed data, particularly if you have more than one version of Trainz installed and all set to this parameter. Not only that could never see the point of Trainz backing up data to another location on the same disc. Set it to 0, or 1 at most.