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 Zaf  |
Greetings. Each time I start up DS I get this error: "Warning! There is insufficient free disk space to safely run Docking Station. You need 75MB free on your main system drive, and 32MB on the drive where you installed the game. Do you want to run it anyway?" Both drives it mention got over 50GB free of space. I recently downloaded the CFEm (Creature full of Edit with mutation) and advanced Muso/Muco (the egg layer in Docking Station) I removed Muco AND the CFEm files but the game is still giving me the warning. I have no clue what is wrong, please help  Thanks in advance. |
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 Prodigal Sock Ghosthande  |
This warning appeas sometimes regardless of actual disk space (or anything you might have installed in your game; I have both those downloads and there's nothing wrong with either). I've gotten the same message before on multiple computers, even on a brand new laptop with almost nothing else installed. In my case it cleared up on its own after a few weeks, once Windows had updated itself. So there's a pretty good chance you can just ignore what it's saying and run DS anyways.  |
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Zaf |
Now you mention it, I think I remember a time where it did that too and I just ignored it without a problem. Thing is just that I am in the middle of a fun project I rather not lose, so I wasn't sure if I could ignore it. Perhaps I should just backup the files and give it a go. Thanks Ghost. |
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 Jessica |
Just echoing Ghosthande's response: This actually happened to me the second to last time I played C3/DS, and I didn't encounter any problems. I've had it pop up every now and then, for no particular reason. It's never been tied to actual disk space, so far as I can tell. Just the game going haywire in the background? Ha! Backups are always a good idea, though! |
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 Code Monkey evolnemesis |
If you have Windows Vista or newer, it's probable that running the game as Administrator will clear this up... The game is probably trying to write to a file in a restricted folder and being denied write access by UAC, which the game is confusing with the disk drive telling it there is no space to write. The reason for this is that if the disk were full, the game would also get that same error from the operating system... The error is a bit vague, and merely states: "Write access denied. The disk is full/read-only". Before windows Vista, which introduced UAC, no part of a hard disk would normally be read-only to a program installed on it, so a program designed for older versions of Windows (like Creatures) just assumes the disk is full when it gets a write error like this. "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." - Carl Sagan |
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Zaf |
Thanks for the reply guys. Jessica: Yeah I have had it before and nothing seems to happen if you just ignore it. Back is always a good idea tho  evolnemesis: I have Windows 7, and it has never had a problem before, then all of a sudden it gave me that warning. So running as administrator should not have made a difference. But what you say makes sense. |
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Code Monkey evolnemesis |
It may be that it was trying to create a new catalogue or settings file or something in your programs folder that time, when it usually doesn't have to... or something like that... I find it pretty common for that message go away when I run a game as administrator one time, then not come back. A lot of older games can give you problems if you don't run them as administrator the very first time you run them, just because they are creating a settings file or something like that, and windows 7 doesn't think they should have rights to create a new file or folder there. For many games like that, I have found that they run just fine after that, and you no longer need to run them as admin once the new file/folder is made. Even the newer versions of Creatures seem to tend to try and fiddle with the programs folder sometimes, and can give you these errors occasionally Maybe the newer versions realize they should be writing to the documents folder after they get that error, and you are just getting the popup as a kind of artifact, or maybe they just don't try to write the files to programs anymore after they fail once, which would explain why that error doesn't come back. "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." - Carl Sagan |
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