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Brenolf

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Game won't start
« on: March 24, 2020, 11:57:58 AM »

Hello, so i bought this game, tried to run it, didn't work
tried to execute the bat, the cmd poped up shortly then vanished
opened cmd put bat in there pressed enter and then it says it can't locate the path

has this something to do with me installing it in in D insted of C ?
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Alex

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Re: Game won't start
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2020, 12:04:32 PM »

Hi - sorry about the trouble! Can you take a look here?
http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=18234.msg285142#msg285142

(In your case, you'd need to replace c:\ with d:\ in the cd command.)

If the error message mentions JAVA_OPTIONS, then - if you remove this variable from your environment, the game should run. To do this:

1. Right-click on "Computer" (which you might have on your desktop?)
2. Select "Properties"
3. Click on "Advanced system settings" on the left
4. Click the "Environment Variables..." button near the bottom

Make sure to remove it from both the User and System sections, and to check for both JAVA_OPTIONS and _JAVA_OPTIONS.
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Brenolf

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Re: Game won't start
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2020, 12:23:15 PM »

it turns out that java WAS mentioned in the error message so what i did was i went into system->advanced system settings->enviroment variables and then set the -xmx from -xmx512 to -xmx2048 and that fixed the issue

this yt video helped me finding the java_options :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Hj83J0ekk

Thanks for the help ;)
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Re: Game won't start
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2020, 12:30:48 PM »

Ah - you definitely want to remove the environment variable entirely instead of changing it. Otherwise you might run into other issues later on (such as, say, when you try to increase the memory use if you decide to run with a lot of mods).
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