Haley, Thanks for telling us about your progress. As experiment, please replace your runIDV.bat script with the attached runIDV.bat script. Now try starting the IDV. What happens? Best Wishes, Unidata IDV Support > Hi good day, > Sorry to be a bother, but I tried uncommenting the memory idv_memory section > but I made it worse. I know im doing something wrong. > Can you assist with the edit? Ive pasted the script below: > setlocal > FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i IN ('jre\bin\java -cp idv.jar > ucar.unidata.idv.IdvCommandLinePrefs %* 2^>NUL') DO SET %%i IF > %idv_memory%.==. ( echo IDV failed to start. Please contact address@hidden > GOTO end) REM Stripping quotesset idv_memory=%idv_memory:"=%set > idv_maxpermgensize=%idv_maxpermgensize:"=% > REM See important note about this above. To bootstrap the IDV memory, > uncomment REM the line below and set to a value in megabytes. REM set > idv_memory=512 > REM See important note about this above. If you cannot start the IDV because > ofREM PermGenSpace errors, uncomment the line below.REM set > idv_maxpermgensize=128 > @echo on jre\bin\java -Xmx%idv_memory%m > -XX:MaxPermSize=%idv_maxpermgensize%m -Didv.enableStereo=false -jar idv.jar > %*@echo off > REM Use the line below instead if you want to use the D3D version of Java > 3DREM jre\bin\java -Xmx%idv_memory%m -XX:MaxPermSize=%idv_maxpermgensize%m > -Dj3d.rend=d3d -jar idv.jar %* endlocal :end > > > > > Much thanks for your patience, > Haley Anderson > > > > > To: address@hidden > > Subject: [IDV #YEO-725865]: IDV Installation problems on Windows PC > > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:25:21 -0600 > > CC: address@hidden > > From: address@hidden > > > > Hi Haley, > > > > This is more-or-less a follow-up and addition to the information > > that Julien sent you earlier today... > > > > re: > > > Good Day, > > > It's Haley Anderson, from PASI Cartagena. I hope all is well. > > > > All is well with me... I got home this morning at 2 am after a reasonably > > long travel from Cartagena back to Denver, then Boulder and finally my > > house. > > > > re: > > > I tried installing IDV on my pc at home and I got the same problem that > > > I got on the laptop during the workshop. You had to edit a script so > > > that enough memory was allocated. > > > > OK. The problem is that the logic that is run to determine the amount > > of memory that the IDV should run with by default is overestimating what > > your machines can actually accommodate. > > > > re: > > > Would it be possible for you to send me some instructions so that I can > > > get IDV working on my machine? I would really appreciate it. > > > > Yes, absolutely. > > > > Here is what you should do (NB: the following assumes that your home PC > > is also running Windows like the laptop you were using in the Pasi > > Workshop): > > > > - edit the IDV startup script and set the amount of memory it should > > use > > > > The IDV startup script will be found in the C:\Program Files\IDV<ver> > > directory (<ver> would be the version of the IDV that was installed > > IF your installation followed defaults; for example IDV 4.0u2) > > > > - The script for a Windows installation is a Windows BATCH file named > > runIDV. Edit this file using MS WordPad (not NotePad) and: > > > > change: > > > > REM See important note about this above. To bootstrap the IDV memory, > > uncomment > > REM the line below and set to a value in megabytes. > > REM set idv_memory=512 > > > > to: > > > > REM See important note about this above. To bootstrap the IDV memory, > > uncomment > > REM the line below and set to a value in megabytes. > > set idv_memory=1256 > > > > - the objective in doing the editing is to set the idv_memory= value to the > > largest number supported by your machine > > > > In practice, you will have to try several values before you find the > > largest one that still allows the IDV to run. > > > > Comment: > > > > - the 3-D data model which comprises the underpinnings of the IDV makes > > large demands on a couple of system services: > > > > - video > > > > - RAM > > > > Our experience is that machines that have Nvidia graphics cards with > > sufficient amounts of memory (e.g., minimum of 512 MB and better yet > > 1 or 2 GB) work the best. Interestingly, Apple Mac machines have > > historically used Nvidia graphics subsystems, and so have worked > > well as IDV platforms. > > > > The other comment we can safely make is that 64-bit systems work > > better than 32-bit ones. And, the more RAM your machine has the > > better things will run. The laptop I used during the workshop > > has 8 GB of memory. After seeing how productive Pasi Workshop > > participants > > with Macs were, I am musing about buying a Mac Pro with 16 GB > > of RAM. Given the relatively high cost of Macs, however, I will > > not jump into a move like this until I am convinced that the use > > justifies the cost. > > > > Request: > > > > - it would really help us to know more about the specs on your laptop > > and home PCs: > > > > - OS (e.g., Windows XP or 7; 32 or 64 bit; CPU type) > > > > - system RAM > > > > - video subsystem (e.g., AMD, Nvidia and the amount of memory that > > the subsystem has) > > > > - disk space (this is not crucial, but it would nonetheless be > > interesting) > > > > re: > > > Much thanks.. again. > > > > I hope that we get the opportunity to interact with each other in the > > future! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Tom > > -- > > **************************************************************************** > > Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program > > (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 > > address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu > > **************************************************************************** > > > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: YEO-725865 > > Department: Support IDV > > Priority: Normal > > Status: Closed > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: YEO-725865 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open
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