Cannot allocate more ram to Minecraft

[Kritten]

Been at this for a couple of hours. Tried re-installing Java with no avail, Control Panel>Java seems to do nothing when I change it, and when I launch the regular Minecraft launcher trying to allocate more ram with the Xmx Xms arguments, I get this error: 

 

Error occurred during initialization of VM

Initial heap size set to a larger value than the maximum heap size

Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx512M

 

Windows 7 OS, JRE 1.8.0_20 + 1.7.0_67, and yes, I already tried Googling it.

 

EDIT: Here's the pastebin, for any of you interested in it; http://pastebin.com/Dkspakhf 

And I did 'java -version' on cmd, and guess what: "Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx512M" haunted me there too.

 

EDIT 2: Solved.

Edited September 6, 2014 by Kritten

[disconsented]

You either:

Don't have enough RAM (its physical hardware) installed

and/or arn't using 64Bit java

[Kritten]

You either:

Don't have enough RAM (its physical hardware) installed

and/or arn't using 64Bit java

 

Control Panel>System and Security>System; says 8GB installed

Problem still occured after re-installed java, as stated above, ensuring I installed Java 64-bit. 

Problem also persisted before I re-installed java.

Edited September 6, 2014 by Kritten

[Kalbintion]

Post a launcher log. It'll provide much more insight than you may think

 

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[Kritten]

Post a launcher log. It'll provide much more insight than you may think

 

Go nuts. 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p8hk3reldr6vp2s/techniclauncher_2014-09-05.log?dl=0

 

EDIT: Replaced Link from Mediafire to Dropbox

Edited September 6, 2014 by Kritten

[plowmanplow]

Link not public.

[Kalbintion]

May not be public to view, but still downloadable

 

One execution of it ran Java 7u21 - which is outdated - suffered from the mentioned _JAVA_OPTIONS issue

[B#439] 2014/09/05 19:27:59 [INFO]  2014-09-05 19:27:59 [INFO] [ForgeModLoader] Java is Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, version 1.7.0_21, running on Windows 7:amd64:6.1, installed at C:Program FilesJavajre7

Another one ran Java 8u20, which has a known issue with it and is what you're hitting with Java 8u20.

 

The issue, related to _JAVA_OPTIONS, thats overwriting the ram assigned via launcher - which btw is recognizing that you have that amount of RAM. And to fix this:

 

Click start

Enter "environment"

Click "edit environment variables for your account"

Remove "_JAVA_OPTIONS" from top and bottom lists. A reboot may be necessary.

Initial heap size set to a larger value than the maximum heap size

That, as you mentioned in your first post is a direct result of the -Xmx512M issue btw. -Xms being greater than -Xmx causes this error to be thrown, because you cannot start with 2G of ram but limit max RAM to 1G, for example (and hopefully obviously apparent)

 

^{Edit: Typos...}

Edited September 6, 2014 by Kalbintion

[Kritten]

Wow, thanks, that fixed it.

 

If I could give rep on forums, I would give a ton right about now. c:

[Kalbintion]

"Liking" a post is essentially the sites rep system. The more posts that are liked of a certain person, the higher their rating is on their profile (top right is where you can see this number on their profile) - not sure 100% on the intricacies of how the liked posts influence the number, if its 1 to 1, but yeah. Liking posts is their rep system more or less.

 

^{Edit: Typo}

Edited September 6, 2014 by Kalbintion