Hello, so i bought starmade yesterday. And when i started playing i just gotta say. I love the game. But 4-5 min into the game i started getting these lagspikes. Every 2-3 sec. And i though, maybe its just downloading so i tortured myself through this for 10 min. Then i decided to try to fix it. Read myself up on the error. And found out that it was my memory. So i tried to set up the memory. I got 16 gb ram. And when i sat the memory up. I got java error. Cant remember the message. Aint at home so cant find it either. But when i tried to reset it. And set the memory back again to maybe remove the error. The game woudent launch. I just pressed start game. And nothing happend so i cant play. Tried uninstalling the game 3 times. And reinstall java 2 times. Nothing worked. Anyone got any ideas? im desperate.
Java error: Memory problem
- Thread starter Mixonoi
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I'm going to take a wild guess at what has happened.
You've got 32 bit java. The default memory allocated to Starmade is inadequate, as you discovered. 32 bit java can only use a bit over 1000 MB (1024 maybe?) of memory. When you attempted to run java with 16000 MB of memory, you caused a java crash (specifically, javaw.exe).
javaw.exe likes to crash in a special way when too much memory is allocated, where the process (ctrl + alt + delete, task manager, processes) keeps running, invisible to the user. Uninstalling Starmade doesn't reveal/fix this, as java is not uninstalled. Without restarting your computer, javaw.exe is still running the next time you try to launch Starmade, causing an error.
@schema Can I suggest that the launcher does a check for 64 bit java when over 1024 (or the actual number) of memory is allocated?
You've got 32 bit java. The default memory allocated to Starmade is inadequate, as you discovered. 32 bit java can only use a bit over 1000 MB (1024 maybe?) of memory. When you attempted to run java with 16000 MB of memory, you caused a java crash (specifically, javaw.exe).
javaw.exe likes to crash in a special way when too much memory is allocated, where the process (ctrl + alt + delete, task manager, processes) keeps running, invisible to the user. Uninstalling Starmade doesn't reveal/fix this, as java is not uninstalled. Without restarting your computer, javaw.exe is still running the next time you try to launch Starmade, causing an error.
@schema Can I suggest that the launcher does a check for 64 bit java when over 1024 (or the actual number) of memory is allocated?