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nikimcbee 12-19-11 06:10 PM

Hey, I could use a little help. I really want t give SH5 a second chance. I tried some mods for SH5, but it seems like they didn't work for some reason. Is there a mod I could test to make sure the mod is actually working.

Everything seems to install as normal with JSME, so I'm reallyconfused why it's not working.:dead:

The JSME works just fine for SH3 and 4.

Trevally. 12-19-11 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nikimcbee (Post 1807895)
Hey, I could use a little help. I really want t give SH5 a second chance. I tried some mods for SH5, but it seems like they didn't work for some reason. Is there a mod I could test to make sure the mod is actually working.

Everything seems to install as normal with JSME, so I'm reallyconfused why it's not working.:dead:

The JSME works just fine for SH3 and 4.

Hi nikimcbee:salute:

If you have checked that you are up to v1.2 before any mods, then the next step would be to run this app:-

see here http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=187245

It will check you mods and give you a report.
If you paste that here - someone may know what is wrong:up:

nikimcbee 12-19-11 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trevally. (Post 1807906)
Hi nikimcbee:salute:

If you have checked that you are up to v1.2 before any mods, then the next step would be to run this app:-

see here http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=187245

It will check you mods and give you a report.
If you paste that here - someone may know what is wrong:up:

Thanks, I'll give it a go when I get off work.:salute:

Screwy 12-20-11 12:34 AM

Thanks for this thread. Saves me a lot of time. Thanks again. :yeah:

Rongel 12-20-11 05:34 AM

Great work Trevally!

As we don't have a ultimate megamod yet, this is the next best thing!

(By the way, haven't been in the forums for a while, L.A. Noire took my heart!)

Trevally. 12-20-11 06:58 AM

I am re-reading the info for using the 4gig patch.
It is for use in 64bit systems when running a 32bit exe

Can anyone confirm that the exe for SH5 is 64bit - therefore not requiring the 4 gig patch. Also how do you tell?

I can't check myself as I am at work:oops:

Magic1111 12-20-11 10:35 AM

Hi Trevally!

Very good Thread! :yeah:

Best regards,
Magic:salute:

uekel 12-20-11 10:57 AM

Hi Trevally!
Quote:

Originally Posted by Trevally. (Post 1808094)
Can anyone confirm that the exe for SH5 is 64bit - therefore not requiring the 4 gig patch.

The sh5.exe is a 32 bit application. You can see, which compatibility modes offered from the OS (if you have just available a sh5.exe :D). So I think the 4-Gig-Patch for SH5 on 64 bit systems is useful.

Trevally. 12-20-11 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uekel (Post 1808174)
Hi Trevally!

The sh5.exe is a 32 bit application. You can see, which compatibility modes offered from the OS (if you have just available a sh5.exe :D). So I think the 4-Gig-Patch for SH5 on 64 bit systems is useful.

Thanks uekel:up:

Yes - I have just checked in the task manager and the exe is flagged *32

Trevally. 12-21-11 03:51 PM

Added links to some of the mods in my list where they were not already linked within the post.

Husksubsky 12-21-11 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Trevally. (Post 1808239)
Thanks uekel:up:

Yes - I have just checked in the task manager and the exe is flagged *32

I have win 7 64 with 6 gb Ram. I need this patch?what If I get 12 gb Ram?
Last time I brought this up it became concluded that I didn t need it. I m not familiar with these things but my rask manager showed "sh5.exe*32 " and I guess that means 32 bit.
windows 7 s own resource monitor showed approx 2.240 kb reserved for app by os and approx 2.000kb was working. Total in use was approx 3.600 kb and approx 2500 kb was available.
I guess it s that reserved by os that we want up. my gfx is 2 gig as well and according to TDW those 2 gigs will also be reserved.No idea how I can check that.

Trevally. 12-22-11 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Husksubsky (Post 1808955)
I have win 7 64 with 6 gb Ram. I need this patch?what If I get 12 gb Ram?

Sorry Husksubsky I am confused by this also - perhaps someone could explain this.

I assumed that with our 64bit system (mine is home prem) I could use up to 16GB ram.

But it looks like if the exe is running x86 (32bit) - we only get 4GB
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8214/29100573.jpg

Anyone know if this is correct:06:

TheDarkWraith 12-22-11 03:44 PM

If an app is being ran in 32 bit mode on a 64bit system then by all accounts it should behave like it's running on a 32bit system. I don't know Windows7 architecture all that well but I do know that a 32bit exe cannot run on a 64bit system unless that system switches to 32bit mode for it (the wow64 part of Windows - wow is short for Windows on Windows). Being in 32bit mode then it should only have access to 2^32 or ~4GB of memory.

Husksubsky 12-22-11 05:30 PM

Yes this disturbs me. I ll buy 12 gig. And I can do some testing. One thing I r4eally wonder about is where are those 2 gigs that my gfx card reserve from my memory? I think like this:
I have 6 GB .
My win 7 uses 1.5 gb (TDW says)
My gfx card uses 2 gig (TDW says) .we re now up to 3,5 and that means I Have
2.5 gb for my sh5.exe. No need for a patch since I don t have more mem to use.

But I fear it doesn t look like this in real life.
For example where does the GFX get its memory?Possible the system reserves in a way that the gfx card take from those 4 gb the sh 5.exe could have have used?

And if you say the 32* files can allredy use 4 gb why then a patch? The patch was for 32 bit systems wasn t it ? where the limit was 3gb? (thus the reason I was told I didn t need the patch last time)

I have win 7 ultimate

sparrs 12-22-11 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Husksubsky (Post 1809331)
Yes this disturbs me. I ll buy 12 gig. And I can do some testing. One thing I r4eally wonder about is where are those 2 gigs that my gfx card reserve from my memory? I think like this:
I have 6 GB .
My win 7 uses 1.5 gb (TDW says)
My gfx card uses 2 gig (TDW says) .we re now up to 3,5 and that means I Have
2.5 gb for my sh5.exe. No need for a patch since I don t have more mem to use.

But I fear it doesn t look like this in real life.
For example where does the GFX get its memory?Possible the system reserves in a way that the gfx card take from those 4 gb the sh 5.exe could have have used?

And if you say the 32* files can allredy use 4 gb why then a patch? The patch was for 32 bit systems wasn t it ? where the limit was 3gb? (thus the reason I was told I didn t need the patch last time)

I have win 7 ultimate

Same here:- Resource monitor says SH5 takes all available memory plus page file. I used the x64 memory patch, but I see no difference in the logs when I run SH5, although not looked too closely, but the game behaves the same (seemingly) as pre-x86 patch. In fact I upgraded to a x64 system to play this game with full 4Gig memory usage. I think the game, to run its fullest would need at minimum a dual core CPU, a decent GPU (Nvidia 9800 GTX+ onwards) and 4 Gig of RAM. I was running out of memory when I installed the sub interior mod (steelvikings) on the x86 system (I have a 4gig system with a 512MB card), that was the cause of odd stuff happening. FWIW.

THE_MASK 12-22-11 07:51 PM

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2/detection.jpg

I have 8 gigs of memory .

Faamecanic 12-22-11 09:25 PM

I just re-installed SH5 after upgrading to Win7 64 Home Premium... my "analysis" looks just like Sobers... it is only recognizing 4GB. I have 8 GB + 1GB video RAM. :06:

The other strange item on that same screen is it said my graphics driver is out of date. But I just downloaded the driver from Nvidia this past weekend after putting my rig back together...

Hartmann 12-23-11 12:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faamecanic (Post 1809414)
I just re-installed SH5 after upgrading to Win7 64 Home Premium... my "analysis" looks just like Sobers... it is only recognizing 4GB. I have 8 GB + 1GB video RAM. :06:

The other strange item on that same screen is it said my graphics driver is out of date. But I just downloaded the driver from Nvidia this past weekend after putting my rig back together...

I have the same "problem" with the graphic driver but i didnīt update the drivers and the game runs with no problems.

2500k , and Gforce 560 Ti

Husksubsky 12-23-11 01:22 AM

googled the video ram thingy and got some complicated answers. seem a gfx card uses addresses in the higher area(above 4 gig for me so I m well off with my 64 bit system). But it uses it s own memory too. I understood it something like it used memory addresses so the normal ram couldn t use it. (I m on thin ice here)There were some cards that was worse than others when it came to stealing memory.some turbocache was blacklisted as well as onboard videocards.

vlad29 12-24-11 12:47 AM

Hi guys!

Re. driver type detection:
Thats a known issue. Almost all users of nVidia cards now have driver version > 200. The game is old enough was developed for the drivers 190xxxx series. So in the message box (see Sober's post) the information is not displayed correctly. F.e., when I used 238.xx driver version, it was detected as 138.xx:(too oldDL ) But it's just a message (warning) box and have no any influence on the game-running process:yep:.

Re. RAM usage by video: I can confirm my nVidia GTX260 812 mb is stealing RAM. Nevertheless no negative issues (ctd, gamefreeze) detected dispite I've more than 80 mods (including 'heavy' mods earning lot's of RAM) installled:up:


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