title: How do I fix Error: could not create the Java VM?
body: <p>Recently, i've been trying to set up forge on java minecraft. However, a problem popped up where, after installing java, I would get this message upon attempting to open the forge installer:
  Error: could not create the Java Virtual Machine.</p>
  <p>So, naturally, I googled the problem to see what I could do. After spending hours trying to fix this issue, and attempting seemingly every &quot;solution&quot;, I felt exhausted. I would uninstall java, and reinstall it, even receiving the error during installation. I even tried different java versions.</p>
  <p>Eventually, I decided to try and install forge without java, so I opened up the cmd prompt, and found this message.</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: ûXmx512M
  Unrecognized option: ûXmx512M
  Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
  Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I toyed around with sysdm, because someone said that was where the _JAVA_OPTIONS issue lied, but it wasnt. The only java options that was there was the one I created, with 1024M instead of 512M. Even when I deleted it, the error remained the same. What do I do?</p>
  <p>EDIT: it seems like nobody has both the virtual machine error and the java options error at the same time. how did i manage this</p>