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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: ph3n1x on January 02, 2009, 08:07:28 am

Title: ShivanSPS instal and Win XP X64 doesn't work
Post by: ph3n1x on January 02, 2009, 08:07:28 am

As stated in the title I can't get the game to run.
I always get the same error message: Freespace has detected that you have less than 1MB RAM available. Freespace needs 32MB To Run.
Well It s hard to believe that I don't have 32 MB ready for the game as my computer has 4GB of RAM (hence the fact why I am running XP 64bit)
currenty using 987MB/5877MB (prolly includes swapfile)

9850 BE AMD proc (quadcore)
Gigabyte MA-790X DS4 mainbord
2 * AMD 3870 512MB PCIe
4GB RAM DDR2 1066MHz
Windows should be up to date
Latest drivers.

Tried compatibilty mode win98/me and win XP. Error message stays the same.

Title: Re: ShivanSPS instal and Win XP X64 doesn't work
Post by: Jeff Vader on January 02, 2009, 08:24:41 am

Sounds like you're trying to run the retail FS2. It has difficulties in detecting more than 2GB RAM. You should run FSO. Open Launcher.exe, click "Browse", select the .exe starting with "fs2_open_3_6_10r", click "Apply" and start the game by clicking "Run".

Title: Re: ShivanSPS instal and Win XP X64 doesn't work
Post by: ShivanSpS on January 02, 2009, 05:06:17 pm

Well, i tryied on 3 diferent machines, one witch 1.5GB and XP 32 and everything worked fine, my sister pc witch 3gb and vista x32 and worked fine, and my pc witch 6gb and Vista x64 and worked fine, it does even work on Windows 7 pre-beta in my pc too...

I didt try on XP64, but what file are you running?