Zormik

Thx for the tip!

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Zormik

Lol hun, it's not about my mental stability we're speaking!

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Pinski

Still wrong. Windows 32-bit limits PROCESSES to 3GB each, not the amount of memory a system can run.

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Morara

On most boards, though, you're limited to 3.25GB of RAM in a 32-bit OS, due to the other 768MB used by hardware address space. ASUS has a few boards (the A8V-XE I used to use was one of them) that can use PAE and remap your memory so it'll use the second PAE page for your memory and use the entire 4GB in a 32-bit OS.

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Zormik

I don't think people are interested in the details what you can achieve with tweaking, so i narrowed down the info to what's needed. Anyways i'll give you more information:

- Theorectically a 32-bit OS can maximum adress 4GB of the PHYSICAL memory. Allthough this 4GB of PHYSICAL memory is not available to the user. The system reserves a nice chunk of the memory for itself. Standard if you use 4GB, windows will reserve 2 GB for the system and 2 GB available to applications. That's the virtual memory adressing you're speaking about. With a tweak you can increase this to 3GB or even 3.25GB if you push it, but there you will hit a limit in windows xp 32-bit.

If you want to go over 4GB then you have to enable PAE, with PAE enabled, the OS moves from two-level linear address translation to three-level address translation. The extra layer of translation provides access to physical memory beyond 4 GB. Instead of a linear address being split into three separate fields for indexing into memory tables, it is split into four separate fields: a 2-bit field, two 9-bit fields, and a 12-bit field.

All this technical chitchat actually is useless since we're mostly debating win xp 32-bit and even with PAE windows xp will NEVER ALLOW to adress more then 4GB of physical memory. This will only be available on the servereditions of windows, and i suspect nobody is using that to run eq2 on

And actually, to be exact, win xp 32-bit limitted processes to 2GB and not to 3GB unless the /3GB switch is used in the Boot.ini.

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laboule

Thanks for all the feedback. As soon as my "studielån" goes thru next week I will order a Q6600, 8800GTS and Vista Ultimate 64bit

Really hope the 8800GTS wont give me issues... any Nvidia card that works better for EQ2?

Morara

It's not that the 8800GTS will give you issues. It's that it won't perform magic and make the EQ2 engine not suck, so the video card won't help you much.

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Ailees

GTX, not GTS, quite different !
GTX is more expensive but works (worked ?) not better wit vista.

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laboule

Err? You saying GTS or GTX works better?

Ailees

end of year 2007 : GTX was supposed to be better, and was with XP ; but had a lot of problems with Vista. GTS was running fine, then was better in results !
I hope it has been solved.

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