Technic Launcher Allocation Oddity/Bug?

[HalestormXV]

Alright, this is kind of an odd "report" i guess you can say. But I dont think it is a bugtracker report because I am not sure it is a bug. The technic launcher is halving all of my allocated memory. Yeah....exactly how it sounds. And I can provide screen shots if needed. But basically if I set the launcher to allocate say 4Gigs to Minecraft, in actual minecraft it will only have actually allocated 2 gig. (as can be seen via F3). So....now I am a pretty meticulous guy and do a lot of testing so I can for sure say it is doing that.

 

Despite that I think I know what the issue is so hopefully it can help someone tell me how to fix this. This never happened before and I have been using the launcher since forever. So naturally as a good tester/problem solver I backtracked everything that I have done up until the point that the launcher started doing this. Low and behold...I just upgraded my ram a few days ago. My computer originally had 8G of RAM and now has 16. So it would seem the Launcher (OR JAVA) still thinks I have 8G but Windows knows I have 16 and detects 16. 

 

So the question now becomes is this a launcher issue or is this a java issue? Java is running the latest version Java8 update 31, however this was installed back when the PC had 8G of Ram. Is it possible I need to reinstall Java so it detects I now have 16? Or maybe I need to reinstall the technic launcher so it "learns" that I have 16? Or perhaps I have to change an environment variable (and if so how?) somewhere so that Java "learns" I now have 16G of Ram. 

 

Anyone have a suggestion/solution? For now I basically have to allocate double of what I want to allocate via the launcher. So if I want to allocate 4G of Ram I have to set the launcher to allocate 8.

Edited March 1, 2015 by HalestormXV

[Torezu]

I would completely wipe and reinstall Java, just to be safe.

[HalestormXV]

Just gave that a shot and actually installed update number 40 64bit and now it seems even though (for testing purposes) I set the launcher to allocate 8, it allocate only 7. Quite odd, unless it is built into the launcher that way to not exceed an amount?