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Title: HELP! "Freespace has detected that you have -2mb of memory..."
Post by: andYz00m on January 14, 2009, 11:39:14 pm

So I get this message when I try and run Freespace 2 on Vista 64 Ultimate.

"Freespace has determined that you have -2mb of memory and required 32MB of memory to run. If you think you have more than 32MB check if you are running smartdrive.exe (which im not, wtf is smart drive)."

I have 4 Gb of ram...

Is it because I am running vista? Is there a quick fix for this?

I installed the freespace 2 OSP and it does the same thing, obviously.

My dxdiag is here (http://www.sendspace.com/file/med4wr)

Title: Re: HELP! "Freespace has detected that you have -2mb of memory..."
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on January 14, 2009, 11:46:43 pm

Get a 3.6.10 build of FS2_Open.  http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,173.0.html

Retail and earlier versions of FS2 had a 2 gig limit.  Once you exceeded that it started counting backward so 4gig = 0.

Title: Re: HELP! "Freespace has detected that you have -2mb of memory..."
Post by: General Battuta on January 15, 2009, 12:01:00 am

Once you have a 3.6.10 build and the Launcher, you can try out the 3.6.10 MediaVPs for tremendous graphical boost.

Title: Re: HELP! "Freespace has detected that you have -2mb of memory..."
Post by: chief1983 on January 15, 2009, 12:34:07 am

Yeah I run FSO on Vista64 Business with 4GB and it works fine.

Title: Re: HELP! "Freespace has detected that you have -2mb of memory..."
Post by: andYz00m on January 15, 2009, 01:47:00 am

Thanks fellas, so glad I busted this out.

Title: Re: HELP! "Freespace has detected that you have -2mb of memory..."
Post by: Jeff Vader on January 15, 2009, 03:09:47 am

So glad I've included this issue in The Epic List of Known Issues (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,56279.msg1180353.html#msg1180353) quite some time ago.

Title: Re: HELP! "Freespace has detected that you have -2mb of memory..."
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on January 15, 2009, 01:48:20 pm

Release the movie already.  Nobody wants to read an epic. 

Title: Re: HELP! "Freespace has detected that you have -2mb of memory..."
Post by: Polpolion on January 20, 2009, 04:27:03 pm

I wish I could have a negative amount of RAM. :(