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[lemonpieman]

After about 3700 years into world generation, DF crashes. I know this is probably only for me because i've heard crazy tales of people generating worlds to 10000 years. Help?

[Sir Pseudonymous]

I did that once, it took around an hour and a half to get through worldgen, another ten minutes to get back to the title screen after accepting, and came to something like 150 MB. From what I can tell, the only use for such a world is legends, as it takes so long to load/save any game. And for all that, there were only a few wars, and then peace for over 9000 years, aside from a few human raids on kobold villages, with no casualties on either side.

I don't know why it crashes, try reducing the size of the world, see if that helps.

[Puck]

I dont know how all this works, since I dont know jack about how OSes treat memory and their respective swapfiles, also we dont have any info on the OS in question, so more or less out of my own interest:

Could this be related to how much free memory is available?

[lemonpieman]

I have 300/500 gigs available, memory shouldn't be a problem.

[Puck]

Depending on the code of DF and the OS you're using that might just be a question of free memory available in the terms of RAM of course >.< in case you got 300-500gig ram ... well, congratz, you must be friggin skynet.

[SimRobert2001]

I think he's talking about Harddrive space.  How much ram do you have, and what is your OS?

[lemonpieman]

Windows vista, and ram is 3 gbs

[SimRobert2001]

hrmm... ram COULD be the issue. though, with 1 GB ram being used by Vista, i would doubt it. 

OF course, vista tends to be  a B*itch when dealing with some of the older code, like DF.

have you also tried downloading a fresh copy?