Can my game be better if I upgrade my machine?
tizerist:
Are you using Large Address Aware? It solves most issues, although not the freezing you've described.
gamegame:
LAA doesn't work under Windows XP if you didn't boot into 3GB mode. Under normal, 32bit OS mode programs cannot utilize more than 2GB of memory.
My personal experience with memory hogging games and applications is that Windows 7 is much more stable than XP, for the simple fact that programs in 32bit XP loves to crash once they consume near 2GB of ram, while Win 7 (64) allows them to utilize past 2GB without issues.
tizerist:
Quote from: gamegame on 2011 February 12, 13:04:50
LAA doesn't work under Windows XP if you didn't boot into 3GB mode. Under normal, 32bit OS mode programs cannot utilize more than 2GB of memory.
Works fine on 32 bit Vista once you've done the bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVA 3072 trick, its an urban myth that 32 bit OS cannot utilize more RAM than 2gb. I've been using this trick for a year now, and it's all fine.
Phthon:
Quote from: Madame Mim on 2011 February 12, 04:20:43
the problem is that there's no way to quanitify the age of my machine. My floppy disc drive is probably 10 years old but the rest of my machine gets regular upgrades. My MB is younger than my video cards and my RAM is younger again.
You still have a floppy disk drive? Wow, this is my second generation machine without one. NOTHING I do will fit on a floppy disk anymore. What about the age of the box? That houses the power supply and if it is really old, it won't support some of the newer hardware.
Madame Mim:
I have an emotional attachment to the floppy disc drive and, even though I don't use it any more either, it still gets moved to each 'new' machine.
Box is definately getting an upgrade as it is of indeterminate age - 2 upgrades ago my old box was too small and I picked up a 2nd hand box that would fit my power supply and motherboard.
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