Installing from ISO problems

[RuneScaper]

I have a problem when installing a game from a ISO of a DVD. During isntallation it seems to start taking RAM and it's not clearing it out to the point that i have no more ram left and it freezes my machine. I have been able to last longer into the installation using CacheMan to recover some ram along the way but it still freezes. Is there any fix for this?

 

[jlr69t]

Can you copy the ISO to your hard drive and then install from there?

 

[RuneScaper]

that's what i'm doing, i get the ISO image and use a virtual drive. But it starts the installation and doesnt clear the ram.

 

[Matthias99]

What are you using to mount the image?

And how are you running out of RAM? Did you do something silly like disabling your swapfile, or locking it at a fixed size? Or are you really low on hard drive space?

And what's wrong with using the damn disk?

Also, memory management programs are generally just a bad idea in WinXP/NT/2K. If you're using Win98, get WinXP/2K.

 

[RuneScaper]

I see the number in chacheman and it just keeps going down, the swapfile is there and managed by windows. I just got a 200gb HD and i'm making back ups of my games to keep in a partition, i was testing the files when i noticed the problem wich it seems to happen only with DVDs.

 

[RuneScaper]

so i'm guessing i won't be able to back up my dvd games as iso images then?

 

[vietofmars]

What are you using to create the iso? Might be copy protection messing up your installs.

 

[RuneScaper]

i use Clone DVD

 

[phonemonkey]

Wasn't there some sort of protection that would make your machine believe that a CD contained over 4 gigs of data (this was several years ago)? I'd give alcohol 120% a try and see if that works.