Dear all Can someone help me. I am running Flash 5 on Windows 98. Don't start on about Windows 98 as I hate it as well. It is just that the Sony laptop that was bought for me can with Windows 98 pre-installed and Sony do not provide drivers to upgrade this model to Windows 2000. I have 128mb of memory and that should be fine but it is not. I keep getting an 'Flash is out of Memory' message when I try to add an MC to my movie main timeline, I could try adding it to a new scene as it plays within the main timeline but there are no elements on the main time line that show at the same time. It is an MC that kicks in when a puzzle is completed. I have done similar before with other puzzles the only difference it that they were done on my work station which has two CPU's and 1gb of PC100 SDRAM. God this is out of date already, but anyway it is very fast with Flash and I have done FLA files that have been 50mb on it and it also runs NT4. I do not have access to the that Desktop right now as I have loaned it out to someone who needs that much power. So here I am stuck with good old 98 (NOT) So the message reads like this: Flash is out of Memory'. To increase the available memory, quit Flash and use the Get Info command in the Finder to allocate more memory to Flash'.
I have never seen a memory message like this before in windows. I did not think you could allocate more memory to a specific programme, with the exception of PhotoShop. I do not know Windows 98 well at all and have never come across the Finder or the Get Info command. Is this message referring to a version of Flash that is ported to the MAC where I think you can allocate memory to individual programmes. I am really an NT user and Windows 98 seems slow and unstable as far as I am concerned. This laptop is only 4 months old and it needs reformatting already. So there is the background, thus the questions are as follows.
Can I use the get info command to allocate more memory? What is finder and where is it to be found? Is there a problem with my installation of Flash 5? Is my operating system causing the problem and if so what can I do about it?
Thanks in advance for any and all advice which I know you are all just waiting to send me. I will post in the meantime if I solve the problem without taking back my desktop.
Andrew Le Sage
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