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  1. And to make things worse all they managed to do is make trouble for legit users. Pirates have already found workaround and are laughing at us. Thanks Garmin
  2. It doesn't matter how much memory you have (well, as long as it's over 2GB). MapSource is not doing proper memory management under 64-bit Windows 7. As 32-bit application MapSource can see maximum of 2GB of memory. Zooming and panning will result in out-of-memory crash sooner or later. It depends on map(s) used how soon or late is going to happen, but it's going to happen. You can use Windows task manager (enable Working Set (Memory) column) to track how MapSource leaks memory with every zoom and pan. There is long going thread on Garmin's forum about it (https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?t=3059). They said they are going to "investigate" the problem without acknowledgment or commitment to fix it.
  3. On Windows 7 x64 I'm seeing massive memory leaks. It's most apparent with map of Japan from http://uud.info, but it can be reproduced with latest City Navigator North America. I have .gdb file with selected all 470 map segments (Japan 1:25000 Road Navigator), 40 waypoints, 9 routes and 2 tracks. I zoom in 4-5 times, zoom out, then select one route and select "Show Selected Route On Map" and MapSource takes 1.9GB of memory. After that map start to show all kind of artifacts since 2GB is address space limit for 32-bit applications. It takes a bit more zooming in and out in 6-7 large North American cities but memory consumption also jumps north of 1GB very soon. It did that with previous two versions. I tried MapSource v6.11.5 and memory usage never goes over 32MB. God, I forgot how fast that version is!
  4. Check http://www.tracks4africa.com/t4a_gps_maps.asp
  5. No such problem here. Went from 3.90 to 4.00 using downloaded updater via USB.
  6. Not for me. I had them in c:\garmin and they did not show up in Mapsource. Then I fired up procmon and its file system monitor showed that icon bitmaps are looked for in c:\windows\SysWOW64. Once I copied them there Mapsource found them. In fact, procmon is not showing C:\garmin in any search attempt. How weird is that?
  7. For people runing Vista x64, Mapsource ultimately loads custom icons (001.bmp, 002.bmp, etc.) from c:\Windows\SysWOW64 directory instead of "c:\Users\<user>\Documents\My Garmin\Custom Waypoint Symbols" or c:\garmin. I would really like to know who ih Garmin development team wrote that algorithm for searching custom icons.
  8. I doubt anyone can help you. Palm doesn't find compelling (not enough users to warrant new development) to write 64-bit drivers. You have two (or three) choices. Replace 64-bit OS with 32-bit counterpart, dump Zire 31 and replace it with something that does have 64-bit drivers. Slightly longer shot is to install virtual OS (with something like VMware) and install 32-bit guest OS for purpose of using PalmOne Desktop in it.
  9. Now if MapSource didn't preserve saved track color between sessions that would be serious bug. This way, we can agree that you can't set default track color and preserve that setting between sessions. Thanks everyone for suggestions.
  10. GeoBobC, thanks. That's what I was doing and got tired of it. EraSeek, not bad. As Red90 suggests, and I tried it too, it doesn't stick over multiple MapSource runs. So I have to remember creating one track with colors that I want and then start importing. I may be able to live with that. I guess it would be too much to ask Garmin to add this to the MapSource preferences.
  11. Maybe I'm missing something very obvious, but is there a way in MapSource to change default track color? Whenever I create new track (or import from GPS) tracks are displayed as black line on white background with black circles for track points. Active track has yellow background. I would like all inactive tracks to have transparent background. I can go and change background in each track's properties but that a whole lot of clicking, especially when you get back from 4 weeks of vacation and dozens, if not hundreds, of tracks.
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