Comments | xuande: Requirements exceeded by only two orders of magnitude

xuande

Requirements exceeded by only two orders of magnitude

Mar 22, 2009 15:23

I'm back from Denmark. While I was there, I came across a compilation of Heroes of Might and Magic III and IV with expansion packs for 69 kroner (maybe $12). I keep hearing that HoMM III was the best of the series, so I decided to give it a try. The expansion packs for HoMM 4 (which I already have and enjoyed) wouldn't hurt, either ( Read more... )

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veal March 22 2009, 19:53:24 UTC

lol. what does it just look at the number?

xuande March 22 2009, 19:57:03 UTC

I guess so. When 32 gigabytes becomes normal, this error may disappear.

negativek March 23 2009, 03:58:19 UTC

I don't know, you might want to heed it's warning. I'm sure spending a few hundred dollars to get that warning to go away is worth it. ;)

xuande March 23 2009, 17:13:40 UTC

If jdigital's comment below is right, it'd still fail since 32 is a multiple of 4.

Anyway, I don't whether my motherboard would work with 8 gigabyte memory modules. =)

jdigital March 23 2009, 16:29:31 UTC

There's an infamous computing glitch which kicks in when you hit exactly 4GB with a program that wasn't written to handle it. Similar errors exist: many old computers (Palm, Amiga) couldn't handle 4GB hard drives and FAT32 can't handle files of size 4GB or more.

Essentially, it's like a four-digit display where 9999 + 1 = 0000. Similarly, an unsigned 32-bit variable maxes out at 4,294,967,295 (4GB). The program thinks you have zero megabytes and gets confused.

xuande March 23 2009, 17:11:19 UTC

I suppose I could test for this by unseating some RAM and trying to install it again, but it doesn't seem worth it. The game itself seems to run fine.

jdigital March 23 2009, 18:10:15 UTC

Yeah, the installer is confused but most likely that doesn't harm the install.