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Reply #15 - Jan 6^th, 2008 at 4:23pm

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volunteer wrote on Jan 6^th, 2008 at 3:27pm:

There is a website for the 3 g switch that NickN kindly suggests its here:
http://www.prophotowiki.com/w/index.php/IncreaseUserVa

and worth a look before doing the switch

volunteer

you must be careful of the variable used. If you do not understand how to fine tune that yourself by taking into account the address space the video card also wants to suck off the system, I suggest you leave it at the value I posted above. That website refers to values well above what I posted, which can be done, but not with a 768MB+ video card in the system

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Reply #16 - Jan 6^th, 2008 at 4:58pm

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NickN wrote on Jan 6^th, 2008 at 4:14pm:

freedomhays wrote on Jan 6^th, 2008 at 7:08am:

I have Vista Home premium 32 bit, four sticks of 1 gb each, at first Vista 32 bit did not see 3 gig's, so I went in to the control panel to system advanced and set the page file to 0, ok, rebooted and set the page file to the max recommended, rebooted and all's well with 3 gb's................

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Also for those with trouble, Error message when you try to install Windows Vista on a computer that uses more than 3 GB of RAM: "STOP 0x0000000A"
There's a fix here...
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929777

Good find.. I will hold onto that one. As more and more discover the advantages to running over 2 gig I am sure its going to come up again. I bet MS adds that one to future Vista DVD runs.

Although one can also remove all but 2 gig, install and plug it back in after the install was complete, then make the cache edits

Actually this is an old trick to fix a corrupted page file.
When you add more ram your page file is no longer valid and needs to be reset, hense the set to 0, reboot....
Also works for Vista 64 bit

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Reply #17 - Jan 6^th, 2008 at 5:44pm

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Does this all mean I should make the switch from 2gigs to 3gigs with the boot.ini hack? This will improve my FSX performance? If so I'm going out right frickin now and getting another 2-512mb sticks. I'm getting all excited now.

And will this slow down XP at all?

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Reply #18 - Jan 6^th, 2008 at 6:27pm

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I answered in the FSX thread. Lets keep it on one place

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Reply #19 - Jan 9^th, 2008 at 12:04am

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I thought on some previous post that we also had to define FSX.exe to run at greater than 2 gigs. There was a small utility that did that. useserva tells the OS, what tells the application?

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Reply #20 - Jan 9^th, 2008 at 12:18am

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SP2 or Acceleration already has the changed fsx.exe file in it. Aces marked the file so all that is needed now is the OS hack

The manual method can also be done with FS9.exe too and it will recognize more than 2GB

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Reply #21 - Jan 9^th, 2008 at 8:25pm

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Nick, thanks. Would that mean that all I need to do is run the Command Prompt and insert the bcdedit \ etc line?

You may recall I am running the dreaded Vista OS.

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Reply #22 - Jan 10^th, 2008 at 12:04am

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macca22au wrote on Jan 9^th, 2008 at 8:25pm:

Nick, thanks. Would that mean that all I need to do is run the Command Prompt and insert the bcdedit \ etc line?

You may recall I am running the dreaded Vista OS.

yes, thats all you need to do

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Reply #23 - Jan 18^th, 2008 at 10:23am

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Hi NickN,
I have tried the 3 g switch settings using two 1 gig and 2 512 kb memory modules. Watching taskmanager while sim is operating, I find that while it lists 3gig available, it is still using the page file while available memory still shows over 1 gig left available. Thanks for your help before about settings for FSX and about Nhancer, and O&O defrag. Sure made a difference.

Gigabyte EP45-UD3R, Intel Core2Duo 333 MHZ E8600 Xigmatek HDT-S1283 CPU Cooler
6 GB G-Skill F2-8500CL5, EVGA GTX 260
Antec750 watt power supply, RaidMax Smilodon case with 3 fans
WD Veloraptor drive 150gb for FSX alone. 2 Seagate 160gb and one 320gb drive
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