Can't Run STLAKER, need help

[Decker]

Hey guys, I just recently bought STALKER, and the game said that the only requirements that I didn't meet were not having 2GB of RAM on my comp(just before I clicked "go ahead and install"). I figured that I'd "fix" it after installation or that it'd be okay, or that my comp could fix the problem itself while installing the game. Well, after the installation was finished, I tried starting the game and I got an error message in German(even though I had stated that I wanted the game in English) every time I tried to start the game. I found out that I didn't have 2GB of RAM. I was given a link(The Link) that describes how to "make room" for 2GB, but as I'm computer illiterate, I ignored it because I get intimidated when it comes to figuring things out on computers(and plus I have a nack for deleting the wrong things). So I tried to create some room(uninstall games I don't play anymore and all that fun stuff) and defrag my comp afterwards. Come to find out, I didn't have enough percent of memory(15% to be exact) to defrag my C drive or whatever it's called, so I did some more "cleaning" and the thing still won't start.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Hey guys, I just recently bought STALKER, and the game said that the only requirements that I didn't meet were not having 2GB of RAM on my comp(just before I clicked "go ahead and install"). I figured that I'd "fix" it after installation or that it'd be okay, or that my comp could fix the problem itself while installing the game. Well, after the installation was finished, I tried starting the game and I got an error message in German(even though I had stated that I wanted the game in English) every time I tried to start the game. I found out that I didn't have 2GB of RAM. I was given a link(The Link) that describes how to "make room" for 2GB, but as I'm computer illiterate, I ignored it because I get intimidated when it comes to figuring things out on computers(and plus I have a nack for deleting the wrong things). So I tried to create some room(uninstall games I don't play anymore and all that fun stuff) and defrag my comp afterwards. Come to find out, I didn't have enough percent of memory(15% to be exact) to defrag my C drive or whatever it's called, so I did some more "cleaning" and the thing still won't start.

You can't make room for more RAM by making room on your hard-drive. RAM is a component of hardware, of which you apparently don't have enough.

Just how much RAM do you have?

[Husar]

Doesn't the installation routine show how much RAM you have?
I didn't look closely since all lines were green.
If you need more RAM, you have to buy it, but then no game should refuse to run because you don't have enough RAM, except maybe if the swapfile is too small. If you didn't have enough HDD space, the installation should have been cancelled or not even begun. Though cleaning up a bit shouldn't have hurt.

[Slyspy]

You don't need 2Gb of RAM to run STALKER. I run it with 1Gb and the minimum spec is 512Mb. RAM is a hardware component.

What you do need is enough hard drive space in which to install it, which you didn't when you installed STALKER. Make sure you have deleted enough porn (or whatever is filling your drive up) and uninstalled enough programs to leave room for STALKER. Uninstall your current partial installation of STALKER (if it will let you) and reinstall it.

[Bob the Insane]

I will ask the stupid question... Have you put any of the patches on?

I have to say that even with them in place this is not the most stabile of games.

What is the error you get?

What OS are you running it on? I have it on Vista and XP (Dual boot machine) and to be honest it runs okay on both, better on XP though...

How much memory (RAM) do you have on your machine? What gfx card are you using?

[Decker]

I will ask the stupid question... Have you put any of the patches on?

I have to say that even with them in place this is not the most stabile of games.

What is the error you get?

What OS are you running it on? I have it on Vista and XP (Dual boot machine) and to be honest it runs okay on both, better on XP though...

How much memory (RAM) do you have on your machine? What gfx card are you using?

I did patch it up all the way.

It's in German so I asked someone else in another forum for a translation
But here's the Error message:

Die Page-Datei ist deaktiviert oder die Dateigrosse reicht nicht aus.

Um zu funktionieren braucht das Spiel eine Page-Datei von mindestens 2GB. Bitte Die Systemkonfiguration anpassen, bevor das Spiel erneut gestartet wird.

As for what I have:

ATI Radeon 9200 AGP 8X graphics card with 160GB, 512 DDR SDRAM

Im not sure what OS means.

O yea and no porn. Just pics for the babes thread if you were wondering

[Kekvit Irae]

Moving thread so the techies can see.

[Slyspy]

You have enough RAM to run the game if you also have enough spare hard drive space for the pagefile.

It doesn't matter what you set the pagefile limit to if you don't actually have that much free space on the drive.