David W. Fenton wrote:
On 13 Aug 2006 at 19:30, Tyler Turner wrote:
--- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
None of that makes any sense. Why would an installer
check the RAM
available when it's *running* rather than the
*installed* RAM?
Perhaps you're right, though, if the system RAM
grabbed by the
onboard devices is showing up as unavailable. I
don't know how those
kinds of things work, since I'd never buy a system
that is so poorly
designed as to be using system RAM for those
purposes.
I believe if you look at the amount of memory reported
by Windows as being installed on the system, system
memory that has been dedicated to video will not be
reported. So a system with 256MB of Ram with
integrated video that uses 32MB from this will only
report that it has 224MB of memory. If the program
isn't installing and is reporting that the computer
doesn't have enough memory, this would be my guess as
to what's going on.
James has already reported that this does not apply to his system,
that there are no devices utilizing system RAM, so it's not the
reason Finale is refusing to install.
I have no experience with such machines, as I would never buy one or
allow one of my clients to buy one.
Since James' machine appears to meet the stated RAM requirements, I'm
beginning to wonder if one of the following is actually the case:
1) in typical fashion (typical of programs more than just Finale) the
actual problem is something else and the wrong error message has popped up;
2) James misread the error message and it was actually referring to
available hard-disk space;
3) James was trying to install the Garritan stuff, which may require
more RAM to be available (in addition to more hard disk space);
Perhaps he could be more exact in the wording of the error message?
--
David H. Bailey
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