"Not enough virtual memory..."

[Jurgen]

I've been working on a flash file for quite a while now, and it's gotten quite large. Just last night, I inserted a frame and suddenly it gave me the loading sign for a solid minute until finally giving me a message saying something along the lines of "Flash does not have enough virtual memory to process this request"

I went on the control panel and increased my virtual memory significantly, still, it lags for about 30 seconds every time i create a new frame.

So it must be just because this file is too big (atm it's 503,501 KB. I don't really know if that's an unusual size for a fla. file or not) because i made a new flash just to test and i could easily insert as many frames as i wanted on said new fla.

Are there any ways to fix this problem? I looked around on Google for a while and didn't really find much other than it telling me to increase my virtual memory. Can you turn down the settings on flash to make it run without using as much memory or something? Or do i have to split this file into two different fla files...?

I'm so close to being done this project too, if i could just get another week of smooth animating without lag this could be finished!

[Yannickl88]

increasing the virtual memory isn't going to be you all that good I'm afraid. Virtual memory is being swapped to disk from the RAM (main, or physical, memory) which is quite slow. Problem is you do not have enough physical memory hence it overflows to virtual and becomes slow.

Only solution is to either buy more RAM (which isn't all that expensive) and add it or kill some programs which use up memory when using flash.