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So as far as I can tell FTL caches all its files (visual assets, sounds, blueprint data) when launched, that is whats happening during that initial loading screen. This means it puts all those assets in your working memory to have immediate access to it in-game, which is why there are almost no loading times when FTL runs I guess. FTL just seems to be able to load a limited amount of assets, If there are too many assets to load, like in EL or for some people just with base CE, it will crash during or after that loading screen. This seems to be related to the amount of working memory available to FTL, which can be limited by your hardware preferences but also by FTL's executable itself. Allocating more memory to your FTL executable will take care of this, or at least it seem to do the trick for some people having problems with loading EL. Apparently there is utility software that can do this, but just giving the program a high priority in windows might work as well (does it?). I'm not sure actually. I don't have a great computer, but EL runs fine for me without any adjustments required. Then again that's on Linux, so not sure if Windows might generally behave differently there...

Hmmm, what operating system would you recommend? I am actually running a macintosh computer with bootcamp so I play all my games on windows. If I installed FTL and Captain's edition onto my mac side would that work better? Does Captain's Edition and SMM even work on mac?

Sure, both FTL and SMM are available for Mac. I have no idea if that would work better though, but you can always give it a try.

sounds decent, but how exactly does someone give a program high priority in windows, on a side note thats not the exact issue i am having,

things i can do: load the game+ce(not el, that crashes on loading screen) look at the main menu,view options and hangar, press the start button for a run, read the first screen about secret data and whatever

things i cant do that i would like to do: play the game

the game freezes immediately upon pressing continue on the first screen

Through the magic of Batch files, you can force-run anything you want in High Priority without having to manually alter their status via the Task Manager. That would be an example, but the first two lines are a sneaky thing you can do if you wish that allows the game to run a completely different user profile, leaving the regular one untouched. Of course if you don't need them, then just remove the two first lines and save the last one as a *.bat file in the same folder that the FTL program is in.

ok first off, i am not using a steam copy, just a stand alone, and second could you repeat that in english please

Okay, so I redownloaded ftl and SMM for mac, and everything works great! For some reason my windows just doesn't like the CE. Thanks for all the work you guys put into this mod, so far its fantastic =)

slowriderxcorps wrote:Through the magic of Batch files, you can force-run anything you want in High Priority without having to manually alter their status via the Task Manager.

Running a program with higher priority does not increase the amount of RAM it has available. It only changes the priority for access to CPU processing power. If you assign a very high priority to a very CPU-hungry process, you might cause other applications (or even the entire system, I think) to hang.

In other words, it will not help with the game crashing.

Well that was literally the only thing a Google Search came up with in regards to increasing memory allocation that didn't involve upgrading the hardware itself. I get the feeling that program Estel suggested is about the only thing that actually has an effect.

Well, the only way to increase memory available to a native program on Windows is to use Large Address Aware, which was linked here a couple of times already. Though it's important to note that using this program on 32-bit systems requires additional steps, detailed in the spoilers below the images, as well as 4GB of RAM.