I get this weird message from Windows 10 when I hit "UPGRADE" on ED. What. The. Heck. Now what??? It does nothing, nothing functions. This is frustrating. Windows 10 is frustrating. So once again I am not playing the game, I'm troubleshooting this POS OS and wondering why I bother. Any clues?
Unhandled Exception: Not enough quota is available to process this command
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It's very likley a hardware or PC setting issue. Two things to try, increase the size of the page file, test the memory. It's usually an issue related to the available memory not being large enough to accommodate the current action, most page files are set to be dynamic, but if yours is set to static it's quite possible there isn't enough memory space to hold the data required to upgrade.
Two suggestions:
Do a Restart of Windows. NOT a Shutdown followed by a "power on", but Log out of Windows, Then use the Restart option on the Power button onscreen. Then log back in and try the upgrade.
If that fails, try disabling any antivirus/Anti-malware packages you have JUST FOR THE DURATION OF THE UPGRADE operation.... Don't forget to turn them on afterwards!!!! (keep other programs closed. and don't do ANYTHING else on the PC other than the upgrade whilst they are disabled.
Do a Restart of Windows. NOT a Shutdown followed by a "power on", but Log out of Windows, Then use the Restart option on the Power button onscreen. Then log back in and try the upgrade.
If that fails, try disabling any antivirus/Anti-malware packages you have JUST FOR THE DURATION OF THE UPGRADE operation.... Don't forget to turn them on afterwards!!!! (keep other programs closed. and don't do ANYTHING else on the PC other than the upgrade whilst they are disabled.
Or maybe not
I've over 35 years supporting PCs, hardware, infrastructure, networking to a high level, and coding, OS internals etc..., and around 45 years involved with tech... I made each of my suggestions to cover off particular, plausible, potential generic causes. Bear in mind that we are talking about a launcher failing to update the game (i.e. that DarthVain has the same issue as the OP). and that (assumption) the PC in question was able to run the game until recently (which, assuming it did, would have been a much higher load then the launcher)....i also had one other potential cause in mind, but didn't mention it as whilst I think it's a potential fault centre, I didn't have a suggestion to test the hypothesis or resolve it via forum posts.
So, with "over 35 years supporting PCs.." you should know first rule when asking for support, right ? Without machine specs, is a rhetoric (and useless...) question, right ?... A generic advice can turn a small problem in a huge mess, if the user cannot follow the right path, better always to reduce the probable cause at a minimal before jumping at conclusions.Or maybe not
i also had one other potential cause in mind, but didn't mention it as whilst I think it's a potential fault centre, I didn't have a suggestion to test the hypothesis or resolve it via forum posts.
Sadly, most of the "support tech" today use this "strategy", giving general advices without asking user machine specs, ( probably to add more points on the daily list of "solved problems" ) and this usually result, sadly, in a bigger mess, confusion, and loss of time for both sides.
I always try to avoid this, if possible.
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I know, I just considered the information that I had, and didn't consider lack of detailed spec a blocker for the two very basic items of advice that I offered (and I was not intending to get involved at a deeper level than that, so specs would not have helped me assess anything). As I said, I did consider that a PC capable of running ED should not have basic capacity limitations preventing a launcher from updating.
And yes, I agree that self appointed experts on the internet are the worst.... Believe me, when I see advice on the internet, it is filtered to remove errrmmm...'male bovine excrement' at a very early stage I can recall many instances where suggestions have involved actually making changes to the PC in question, without sufficient information. Even MS forum based support have fallen into this trap. One issue I can think about (but have no intention of recounting here) had the stock advice of either running certain re-installation commands, or just starting with a new Windows user (effectively circumventing a user profile corruption issue). I drilled into what was happening, figured it out how Windows was failing during the build of the user environment, sound a 90% kludge MS had built into windows to prevent the situation from occurring, and how it could fail (allowing profile corruption). The situation was both tragic and laughable at the same time.
I will explain WHY I suggested those two things, then duck out of this thread (possibly excepting clarification requests by the user in trouble).
The logout and restart will ensue the PC is operating for a clean boot, and that any pending updates are fully applied. The logout will likewise ensure that the user environment is rebuilt as cleanly as the current PC config allows. This is always a good first step and does not involve changing anything. Most people do not realise that the boot time optimisations in modern windows versions mean that the OS is cleanly loaded far less frequently than they might imagine.
The security software disable suggestion is not something that I'd recommend lightly, however the wording of the error message suggests some kind of allocation call within the product is failing. It's possible that the hooks that AV/AM products need to inject into the OS are interfering. It has the 'smell' of that kind of issue.
(The other potential cause I was thinking about, was something to do with the dot net framework or the recent update to it)
And yes, I agree that self appointed experts on the internet are the worst.... Believe me, when I see advice on the internet, it is filtered to remove errrmmm...'male bovine excrement' at a very early stage
I can recall many instances where suggestions have involved actually making changes to the PC in question, without sufficient information. Even MS forum based support have fallen into this trap. One issue I can think about (but have no intention of recounting here) had the stock advice of either running certain re-installation commands, or just starting with a new Windows user (effectively circumventing a user profile corruption issue). I drilled into what was happening, figured it out how Windows was failing during the build of the user environment, sound a 90% kludge MS had built into windows to prevent the situation from occurring, and how it could fail (allowing profile corruption). The situation was both tragic and laughable at the same time.I will explain WHY I suggested those two things, then duck out of this thread (possibly excepting clarification requests by the user in trouble).
The logout and restart will ensue the PC is operating for a clean boot, and that any pending updates are fully applied. The logout will likewise ensure that the user environment is rebuilt as cleanly as the current PC config allows. This is always a good first step and does not involve changing anything. Most people do not realise that the boot time optimisations in modern windows versions mean that the OS is cleanly loaded far less frequently than they might imagine.
The security software disable suggestion is not something that I'd recommend lightly, however the wording of the error message suggests some kind of allocation call within the product is failing. It's possible that the hooks that AV/AM products need to inject into the OS are interfering. It has the 'smell' of that kind of issue.
(The other potential cause I was thinking about, was something to do with the dot net framework or the recent update to it)
Probably not a hardware issue.
Sounds like not enough disk space, temporary folders that are too full, or a Windows user account that someone accidentally (or deliberately) put a disk quota on. Could also be a corrupt file or directory.
I'd run chkdsk /f on the drive the game is installed, run disk clean up, and restart the system. If that fails, check to make sure there is sufficient disk space and that no disk quotas are configured.
Also, both restart and shut down log off all logged in accounts on Windows.
Sounds like not enough disk space, temporary folders that are too full, or a Windows user account that someone accidentally (or deliberately) put a disk quota on. Could also be a corrupt file or directory.
I'd run chkdsk /f on the drive the game is installed, run disk clean up, and restart the system. If that fails, check to make sure there is sufficient disk space and that no disk quotas are configured.
Also, both restart and shut down log off all logged in accounts on Windows.
I did have some problems with last update myself, but I am a STEAM user, and was enough to exit STEAM, re-start STEAM & update STEAM, then I did a "game files check", and the update installed nice. In a side note, I can say the game, sadly, is not very friendly with STEAM users, almost all updates somehow run in a problem...
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i updated with steam, it was ok,but then validated of otions out of start page, it worked no probs,worth a try 07
I ran into the same error, still plaguing the game almost two years later. Easy fix, in the launcher uncheck the "Enable Cache Check" option. Game installed right away.
This is launcher related, I had no issues with any other games installing, so I knew it was this one was causing the issues.
Good luck.
This is launcher related, I had no issues with any other games installing, so I knew it was this one was causing the issues.
Good luck.
not sure if its relevant.
i had a few issues with the launcher. turned out it was the display size of my screen, causing the issue.
using 55in tv. i had to set windows display 1920x1080. game settings to change game display size.
not had any issues since.
horizons had no issues this was with Odyssey only.
i had a few issues with the launcher. turned out it was the display size of my screen, causing the issue.
using 55in tv. i had to set windows display 1920x1080. game settings to change game display size.
not had any issues since.
horizons had no issues this was with Odyssey only.
Thanks for this - unchecked the box and off she went... you ripper!
LordAposno, you deserve an award.
This^^^^
And for the guy asking for the machine specs. Is it not reasonable to expect that if you've been playing the game fine for years, the launcher application would have enough resources to work?