Starmade not launching after clicking "Start Game"

Dang I've encountered this before but I can't remember what fixed, I think I had to delete something...

 

When it happened to me that that didn't work either, it was one specific file in the SM folder itself. Hopefully someone who knows which one will hapen upon this thread.

 

logs sayed the game loads 32 bit java.

Pls deinstall all javas and install 64 bit JDK java (Intel Laptops or all in one pcs need it. Perhaps it helps with amd laptops too).

Java SE Development Kit 8 - Downloads

Edit : The best is : deinstall all javas, reboot pc, install jdk, reboot again and start the StarMade-starter.exe as admin and look if the memory settings in launcher really what you have written and not a 0 more or so. Then the most what going wrong is fixed and we will see if it run.

 

trying to use 4gb ram with a 32 bit java? there's your problem.

Download and install 64 bit. Remove 32 completely from your system

 

Please also check the second memory-settings tab:


then the menu has two tabs:

Tab 1 - Client & SinglePlayer
Max: 2048 (May be increased to 4096 in case you have plenty of ram free)
Initial: 512
Early Gen: 256

Tab 2 - Dedicated Server
Max: 1024
Initial: 1024
Early Gen: 256

Make sure you check both tabs, and set them to the above mentioned settings and try again.

- Andy

 

Well, the early gen is 128 by default, and usually only needs to be raised when having a lot of custom blocks/textures installed.
(I do not 100% know the reason, but playing around with settings and many custom blocks revealed a shortage in that default setting, however only affects very few cases.)

The 1024/1024 on server side are usually default settings.
1024/512 should be the original default setting for the client side.
Enabling shaders, procedural background and many of the advanced video features seems to require a higher ram to store the stuff, so 2048 was the next step to try.

They do not need to be the exactly this way, those were safe settings we worked out, to rule out many rare use cases (many custom blocks/textures) and very high video settings in one shot.

Feel free to share your client settings here and the values you had in both tabs before and we can see if there was some pattern we may be able to detect and troubleshoot easier next time.

- Andy

 

I honestly have no idea.
This may be a thing of java, and the 1024 as early generation value may hit operating system limitations for the internal code space (code-cache?).
But not really sure, as java memory management + garbage collection is some awesome science
I am not understanding well enough to explain this problem.

I only know:
The max value for clients can be increased to round about 4GB with performance increase, after that the performance starts to decrease again (garbage collector takes longer and causes noticeable performance hits).
Servers act a bit different, they can utilize more ram, but usually also have incremental garbage collection enabled.
However raising the min-/early generation-values can cause the VM to not start at all.

- Andy

 

an easier way was possible guys! just right clic on the game>propertys>updates>verify the folders