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Title: FS2 Setup doesnt "see" my ram
Post by: Bullhorn on November 01, 2013, 11:17:45 am

Hi,

Just installed FS2. Havent touched FSO yet.

Setup sees 0MB of ram.

Help?


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Title: Re: FS2 Setup doesnt "see" my ram
Post by: Luis Dias on November 01, 2013, 11:41:10 am

Please post your fs2_open.log file.  Instructions on how to do this can be found in this post.

Title: Re: FS2 Setup doesnt "see" my ram
Post by: Bullhorn on November 01, 2013, 12:00:26 pm

I have not installed fs open yet, as stated.

Just the base FS2 game.

Title: Re: FS2 Setup doesnt "see" my ram
Post by: Admiral Nelson on November 01, 2013, 12:18:00 pm

AFAIK retail doesn't work if you have more than 2GB of RAM on your machine due to a bug in the variable type used to hold the amount of RAM detected.  Best to install and use FSO.

Title: Re: FS2 Setup doesnt "see" my ram
Post by: MatthTheGeek on November 01, 2013, 12:26:22 pm

Quote from: Bullhorn on November 01, 2013, 11:17:45 am

Setup sees 0MB of ram.

By "setup" you mean the launcher, right ?

Retail's launcher bugs when you have more than 2GB ram - probably some int or short overflowing and going right into negative values or something. It's a known issue. We're talking about a 99-era game after all.

You should be perfectly able to use one of our recent launchers to play FS2 retail:

wxLauncher (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=67950.0)
Launcher 5.5g (http://swc.fs2downloads.com/files/Launcher55g.zip)

But yeah, while you're at it, better just go ahead and set up FSO (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=78710.0).

Title: Re: FS2 Setup doesnt "see" my ram
Post by: Bullhorn on November 02, 2013, 06:01:13 pm

Great, thank you, solved.