I get not enough memory? No leaks bythe way and it just loads alot of pictures. However when run in debuging using a debugger it runs as expected. I remember there are options to say that it is expected to use alot of memory when run or something like that. How do I do that? Maby I'm wrong?

This game I made is origonally for linux however I made a windows version. I wondered why it doesn't work unless I use a debuger untill I ran the windows version with wine on linux, and wine gave "not enough memory" while it was loading the bmp images. And it explains a weird pointer problems on windows however no problem when run in some debuger.

On windows I use MS Visual C++ 6.0 and on linux g++. Linux version seems more stable and all I changed on the windows version is getting time.

Also it appears c++ "new" doesn't return 0 on error?

The game uses opengl, glut
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You should be able to allocate as much as your user permissions allow. Usually it means more than your application should ever need. Have you checked how big areas you're trying to allocate?