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Amazigh

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Starsector Fails to start.
« on: September 13, 2013, 05:45:27 PM »
Starsector works on my laptop, albeit painfully slowly
But when I try to run it on my desktop it flat out fails to start, error message below.
I tried increasing -Xms512m -Xmx1024m but there was no noticable effect
Notes on PC:
- Windows 7 64bit
- fully updated graphics drivers
- latest java version is installed
- I put it together myself, so there *might* be an issue there? not likely, but possible.
Spoiler
Error occured during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
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Alex

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Re: Starsector Fails to start.
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2013, 05:52:55 PM »
Have you tried rebooting recently? It sounds like it's having trouble allocating enough memory - that is to say, there isn't that much RAM available on your system in one continuous block. A reboot could solve the issue.
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Amazigh

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Re: Starsector Fails to start.
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2013, 07:38:09 PM »
My desktop has 16GB of RAM, so i doubt that's it, but i'll give it a shot.

Edit: just restarted my desktop, and immediately tried to launch starsector after it finished starting up, the same problem occured.
« Last Edit: September 13, 2013, 07:42:45 PM by Amazigh »
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Re: Starsector Fails to start.
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2013, 07:53:23 PM »
Hmm. Can you try reducing the -Xms512m -Xmx1024m to something like -Xms512m -Xmx512m? That could help.

Also, can you try running the game using the starsector.bat that comes with the game, under the starsector-core directory? First, though, edit it so that it uses your system's version of Java - just remove the "..\jre\bin\" part on the first line, so that it starts with just "java".
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Amazigh

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Re: Starsector Fails to start.
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2013, 08:16:13 PM »
Either changing the -Xms/-Xmx or setting it to using my systems java made it work perfectly.
Decided to go with changing it to use my java, as that seems a better idea than messing with memory allocation.
seems I have to use the .bat to launch though, but that's not really a problem to me.

feels so good finally being able to play in glorious 1920*1080

Thanks for the help Alex.
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Re: Starsector Fails to start.
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2013, 08:32:04 PM »
Quote from: Amazigh on September 13, 2013, 08:16:13 PM
Decided to go with changing it to use my java, as that seems a better idea than messing with memory allocation.

Good call, I think. Glad you got it working!
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Re: Starsector Fails to start.
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2014, 08:48:00 PM »
where do I edit to make it use java?
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