muzzy Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 I heard about Windows 3gb switch to help about out of memory problems during rendering if you have 2Gb physical ram. Anyone using this switch ? Must have 2gb ram or lower ram can benefit from this switch ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abicalho Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 I got 2GB of RAM and have never had a problem. Same with my other computer that has 1GB. I have 4GB of swap on both systems. They're both HP XW6000 workstations. Alexander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
behemoth Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 I have 1GB RAM in my machine and I am using the switch. There is this scene that is 9 million polygon and it only renders with that switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 I heard about Windows 3gb switch to help about out of memory problems during rendering if you have 2Gb physical ram. Anyone using this switch ? Must have 2gb ram or lower ram can benefit from this switch ? Thanks sounds interesting. what is this switch? an application i should down load? is it free? i have 1 gig ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingeldar Posted March 12, 2004 Share Posted March 12, 2004 http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx general information couldn't understand everything maybe u can.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzy Posted March 12, 2004 Author Share Posted March 12, 2004 I found this from web sites but I like to heard from hardware gurus before I try because I don't want to mess with my stable system... Windows® XP® Professional is required. A modification of boot.ini file is needed to activate this capability at the system level. The boot.ini switch /3GB needs to be added in order to make 3GB available for user mode applications. For example: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional 3GB" /fastdetect /3GB multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect Notes: Improper modification of the boot.ini file can cause the operating system to be inoperable.For testing purposes of a given hardware configuration, it might be preferable to create several entries in the [operating systems] stanza, as documented in above example, as well as leave a non zero timeout, to allow user selection at boot time between regular boot and boot with the /3GB option; this can allow easy recovery in case the /3GB option causes a problem described in section Additional Operating Considerations below.Modification of the boot.ini file requires administrative privileges.Do not add the /3GB switch if running Windows® NT® 4.0 Workstation or Windows® 2000 Professional.http://www.hp.com/workstations/segments/mcad/dassault/windows/memory_xp.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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