When an old game checks if you meet the system requirements
Posted May 1, 2017, 6:04 PM UTC
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Why u have only 2 GB ram paired up with gtx 1060?
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LMAO! I even missed that! I got 16GB DDR3.
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Should enable LAA (Large Address Aware) to let it use another gig of RAM.
It just toggles a flag on the executable to let it use resources that would normally be used by the system on a 32-bit machine.
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Would this minorly fix OOM errors on some games where mods push it past 4GB (like flight sims)?
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It depends on how the game is made, if it has a hard upper limit on memory it might never exploit it. But in most cases it will help. But it will not enable it to go past 4GB as there isn't enough numbers in 32-bit to address that much.
For example with Skyrim it is almost critical to enable LAA if you are using texture mods.
Of course it will only help with 32-bit applications.
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Pretty sure there's a CFG setting in FSX/P3D called HighMemFix that might do this
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But why do you have a pagefile enabled with that amount of memory?
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game can only see 2GB
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He probably has more but if it's a 32bit game it can't address or even see more than 2GB of RAM due to the limits of the 32bit address space and limitations imposed by Windows itself.
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HALO for PC showed that my core i7 was 0GHz, so it would not install
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The 0GHz i7 is out?! Hold my 4970k I'm going to Amazon!
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Technically, if you power off your i7, it is a 0 GHz i7.
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Well, probably the power saving options, clocking the CPU to < 1GHz.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Wouldn't install? Now that's just a bitch move.
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My friend had the old pc version of KotOR and it showed his cpu had negative GHz. This was 06 or 07 and I forget what his cpu was at the time.
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Oh by... that gtx 1060 1gb version. I remember when that one came out ;-)
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cheeki breeki
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Get out of here, stalker.
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That card is so old and slow... I can take it off your hands.
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I got distracted for a second, then tried to click next.
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I'll trade you a compatible GPU for that 1060.
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Jason Scott says running old Apple II benchmarks in a web emulator makes him feel like The Architect.
"You have many questions. Some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. While your first question may be the most pertinent, it is also irrelevant."
"IS THE FLOPPY DISK OKAY?!"
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I've never played any of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games and I'm wondering if I should play it, I need some persuasion
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Play stalker lost alpha http://www.moddb.com/mods/lost-alpha , its a mod but its stand alone, all you have to do is download it.
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Duh. It's because 6 < 1024. Obvious!
Seriously though that probably is the issue. I think it's comparing gigs to megs.
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gotta uninstall some RAM buddy
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It's the video card that it doesn't like and you can uninstall vram.
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Your version of DirectX is not compatable with this install.
Installed: DirectX 12 Needed: DirectX 3
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dont forget the complete mod :)
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But, it's pretty bad.
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Could try the Lost Alpha mod and the Call of Chernobyl mod.
The first recreates how the leaked alphas were and the second brings the first and third stalker games together. CoC is just as rough as the base stalker games so if you want a smother experience you need some mods on top. Like a weapon re-balance to remove the bullet sponges.
And the best part; both are stand alone!
Edit: Just remembered the most recent version of CoC has an interesting game mode. Can't remember the name but it lets you inhabit a random NPC when you die. With all the allegiances and equipment that entails.
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If you are first starting with stalker you definitely shouldn't play coc first. I would just add some mods like zone reclamation for bug fixes and Autumn Aurora plus absolute textures to enhance the overall graphics of the game.
EDIT: Turns out this was wrong. Autumn Aurora already has zone reclamation built in and you also can't use Absolute textures with Autumn Aurora as they both retexture the same things. Thanks u/Bad_Meme_For_That for clearing this up.
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ZRP+Autumn Aurora+Absolute Textures
That's not how that works. Autumn Aurora has ZRP built in, Autumn Aurora and Absolute Textures are both Graphical Overhaul Mods, you can't use them together
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AA is an overhaul, it's much harder then vanilla.
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Yeah, you should always try out vanilla first. For the best pant shitting action.
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See, I associate CoC with something else ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
E: Not Clash of Clans, dear god.
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I... am aware of other quality software that may be abreviated thusly.
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Good God, that 'game ' is still a going concern? I thought it was gonna be superceded by FoT/ToF (sp?)
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CoC isn't anything like the vanilla game, definitely not all that great of an idea if you're new to the series.
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This is a pretty bad piece of advice for a new player. If you're looking to get into STALKER, especially SoC, you'd better play the game vanilla with ZRP and graphics mods if you want. CoC is just a sandbox, and LA is for those who want "more".
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I never intended to direct the comment at new players.
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No. Just no.
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fuck yourself then
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pukes
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Bioshock 2 has a Vram issued because it is an older game. It crashes when it hits 2Gb of Vram even though I have 8Gb's avalible.
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That means it's not Large Address Aware, not really a bug so much as a product of that games age.
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Get out of here stalker!
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GTA 4 has a similar issue with new cards, and it will leave the graphics at the lowest and the resolution at 800x600.
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It doesn't, it's been patched.
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At least you can still play the game! I remember a few yeara ago, when an old game didn't want me to finish the installation, because of that:
CANT INSTALL:
- You need : 512 MB RAM
- You have: 16777216 KB RAM
Which is 16 GB RAM in decimal KB, just so you know....
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To run that you need at least a GeForce 8800 because obviously 8800>1060
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So your card is way too powerful for the game. Makes sense. (You also got way too much vram there, better downgrade so you can run the game /s)
Much better ,use DSR to run the game at 16k resolution .
It's a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game, if you think a 1060 is too powerful your mistaken.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic...
Kinda am, kinda not, the X-Ray Engine is a crazy thing.
It's Russian(Yes, Ukraine, I know) so it's normal.
Better sell me some of that ram, so your game doesn't go too fast
While in my experience this is actually the case, when it comes to Oblivion I have no clue what's up. When it was brand new and I had the exact recommended GPU for the game, it said it didn't recognize it.
Now a days it comes back and says my current GPU isn't powerful enough to run the game because it has 4GB of RAM and the game needs at least 1.