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Title: Low Video Memory
Post by: Nathan561 on July 13, 2003, 06:44:00 AM

QUOTE (timber @ Jul 13 2003, 03:10 PM)

Sometimes when i start xbmp and look at the settings it only shows 27Mb out of 64 free. If it is this low i cant see the video in my avi files. While the avi is running it shows 0Mb free when i have this problem, but if it does work i see 1Mb free. What causes this and how could i rectify the prob ?

Sometimes my XBMP does this after playing audio or certain video files.. then playing another video file.. some kind of memory leak i think.
Restart XBMP and load the file again, it should work fine after that.

Title: Low Video Memory
Post by: timber on July 13, 2003, 07:30:00 AM

Sometimes restarting will work and other times it wont.

Title: Low Video Memory
Post by: RealNeo on July 13, 2003, 09:23:00 AM

To fix this problem go into your config.xml and change your video cache hdd from 8024 to 256. That will free up a ton of memory. It worked for me. I have never run low on memory since. 8meg is way to much video to cache in mem for the finite amount the xbox has. Hope this helps

Title: Low Video Memory
Post by: timber on July 14, 2003, 03:38:00 AM

Title: Low Video Memory
Post by: timber on July 15, 2003, 02:25:00 AM

Thanks RealNeo it works fine now with 5Mb to spare.

Title: Low Video Memory
Post by: RealNeo on July 15, 2003, 06:39:00 AM

No problem. I think they need to change that setting for the next release so other people will no have that problem. I changed mine to 256 and it works great. Before I changed it when the mem got to 0 the image would start blending and pixilate. I started troubleshooting and thats when I discovered that the mem was at 0 when this occured. I went into the config.xml and simply changed it. Now I have no problems. I only hope others will reliaze this little trick so they can prevent future difficultys.