Addon limit

[Airwolf 50]

After so many addons will the game not start anymore? i have a large number of addons and i have to keep deleting addons to keep the game from loading, other wise i just get a black screen, anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it? thanks.

[Guest]

Moving to Troubleshooting

[Placebo 29]

Don't spam your question over multiple forums please, it only serves to irk me, one post in the correct forum will suffice

[Airwolf 50]

i simply posted in troubleshooting because its a problem, and i posted in general because the majority of people go there, instead of critisizing me why dont you help me.

[Lt_Damage 0]

He was doing both, using the forums correctly is the best way to get your problem solved. Trying to take advantage of the traffic flow of the GENERAL forum isn't going to help. The people don't go there to solve your problems.

[Airwolf 50]

fine fine! then stop responding to my thread unless you can help me with my problem.

[ralphwiggum 6]

if you have too many addons, how about moving them to different location? make another folder calles 'CustomAddons' or so and copy all yout addons there. then restart OFP.

i think i heard from somewhere that too many addons might cause OFP not to launch.

[theavonlady 2]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ June 17 2002,07:36)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">i think i heard from somewhere that too many addons might cause OFP not to launch.<span id='postcolor'>

Search The FAQ for "memory map".

[Jester983 0]

Well you could save the addons you like into a temporary folder then reinstal flashpoint then put them back in.

BTW how many addons do you have? I never thought that could happend with OFP.

[Mister Frag 0]

OFP has an upper limit of how much memory it will use (256MB), so it is entirely possible to exhaust that with an excessive number of addons and keep OFP from loading a mission or running it correctly.

[Airwolf 50]

would buying more ram help? i have 256 right now, i also preordered resistance and the avon ladys faqs says that resistance might fix the issue due to memory management.

[Mister Frag 0]

More memory can't hurt, but I'm not sure if it will actually fix your problem, due to the fact that OFP currently has an upper limit of 256MB of memory that it will use for dynamic memory allocation.

The overall memory footprint of OFP can exceed 256MB because Windows will use additional memory to load the code, but OFP uses an internal heap size of 256MB for loading addons, missions etc.

I'm not sure about Resistance (and possibly upcoming patches to the basic OFP) and any changes that BIS is planning for it, but it would seem that allowing the game to use more of the available resources would be a smart thing to do, especially with the proliferation of addons that is coming out. Until Resistance and the OFP patch ship, we are all just guessing.

[theavonlady 2]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ June 17 2002,22:24)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Until Resistance and the OFP patch ship, we are all just guessing.<span id='postcolor'>

Well, yes and no. Suma did confirm that in OFPR, the retained info on addons kept in memory has been reduced. How that translates into the quantity of addons that can be retained in the ADDONS folder versus OFP's base version indeed remains to be seen.