Not Enough Free Hard Disk Space?!

[splatter]

I started getting this messege after I installed a new game the other day. Nothing would work so for ****s and giggles I did a Hard drive space clean up and a defrag. That worked for a few weeks till I installed a new game again.

Rinsed and repeated the free up space on hard disk and the defrag and Im good again until I intall somthin new.

Im kinda far into the game so the patch isnt a option till I beat it then start a dif character.

So until then the above works.

Rob

[Tyanet]

For all those who have this problem in the future, the website No Mutants Allowed has a troubleshooting FAQ that is really useful.
No Mutants Allowed :: View topic - Troubleshooting FAQ, for technical help

Insufficient Disk Space Error
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When you get that message it's either:
A. You are really running low on diskspace and should free up some, or
B. Your config files misguide you.

The following solution is for the latter and was proven to work for both FO1 and FO2.

In your Fallout directory find the fallout.cfg file and open it with Notepad. Note: Your file may look slightly different from the one listed below.

[system] <-----look under this paragraph
art_cache_size=130
cdlock=C:\Programs\mIRC\download\cdlock.dat
color_cycling=1
critter_dat=C:\Games\BlackIsle\Fallout2eng\critter.dat
critter_patches=C:\Games\BlackIsle\Fallout2eng\data
cycle_speed_factor=1
executable=game
free_space=20480

etc.

Change the last value to 0 (zero) instead of 20480.

Alternative solution: In the Windows start menu, choose "Run". Then enter in "services.msc". Find "Error Reporting Service" in the list and right-click to check the Properties. Change the startup type to Disabled.

And I'm playing Fallout 2 and didn't have the last vaule (free space one), so I just added it and it works fine.

[Yemetha]

Although it may be some years, i'm sure there are still a lot of player of the originals fallout, that's way i will share my method too.

Instead of setting the value in fallout.cfg to "0", i changed it to 2048, this way you won't have the memory problems in the long run. The problem is because the game cannot see too much free space, so if you set it to a lower maximum space, and more than zero, it will work and still find memory if needed.

[Kipi]

Can't understand why I have never put this problem on the technical problems -thread. Mistake fixed, and I added both the "0" version and your suggestion Yemetha, just in case.