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Harry Potter on a G5/10.4.4
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Miami, FL 33176
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My daughter has played Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone successfully on a G4 iMac with 768 MB of RAM under OSX 10.3 and 10.4. We recently upgraded to a G5 iMac with 1.5 GB of RAM (OS 10.4.4) and now the game keeps crashing with an "out of memory" error, with the suggestion to increase the "preferred memory size". This seems like an odd message, since the G5 has twice the memory of the G4, and besides, the preferred memory size in an old OS 9 issue, right? I don't know of any way to change the memory allocation of applications under OS X.
Is anyone successfully playing this game on a G5?
Thanks.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pasadena, CA, USA
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I've played both this one and Chamber of Secrets on my G5 with no problems. Is it possible you are playing a "Classic" version of Sorcerer's Stone?
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No, I'm not running Classic. I even went so far as to delete the Classic version of the Harry Potter application to avoid confusion.
Good to know that it runs on a G5. Now I need to figure out what is wrong with my setup. Do you turn the resolution and detail settings down low?
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eyadams, what G5 are you using. Is it the new iMac with the iSight built in? Or an older model.
Thanks.
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I should have been clearer: I have a 1st Gen G5 1.8 SP with 1Gig RAM and the Radeon 9600 card. I don't recall having to fiddle with the resolution settings - it just ran. The only real problem I had was in one of the OS X upgrades the mouse control got squirrelly.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Miami, FL 33176
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OK, thanks. Following a suggestion from Aspyr support, I was able to get it working. At its core, it was a permissions issue. When the program is installed, the folder is write protected for other users. When my daughter first tried the program, it crashed. OS 10.4 does some manipulations with preference files when you repeatedly crash a program (I've forgotten exactly what it does), but I think that's when the preference files got corrupted.
I got rid of all preferences, the app, and reinstalled. This time, I made sure to change the folder permissions BEFORE we started using the game.
Incidentally, Aspyr got back to me very quickly. I was impressed.
Thanks again for your replies.
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