How much RAM does your Vista machine have?

[weasel]

well to be honest i liked call of juarez more then crysis
and i switched back to xp remember and no i haven't made a dual boot yet i'm to lazy

[Azrael]

lol Crysis was really fun, but never got me enough to try and finish it.

[weasel]

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Originally Posted by Azrael lol Crysis was really fun, but never got me enough to try and finish it.

same here demo was enough for me didn't even purchase the game

[datoekplgd]

Yep, crysis is fun to play especially Onslaught level with my speakers turns on very loud! and CoJ reminds me about LucasArts's Outlaws back in 97 played it on my 486....ouch!
here's some links for Vista, XP and other softwares

http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/index.html
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html (pdf docs tweaking XP and Vista)

One is allright, two is too many and three is not enough
Should buy more ram for Vista...say 4gb

[weasel]

thx for the links daktoepldg

[Azrael]

I must agree to the nice-ness of your links.

[weasel]

seems to be there are allot of guys with 3 giga

[Azrael]

I'm a little surprised I didn't think there would be many it's not as popular as the 4, 2 or 1 gb options.

[weasel]

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Originally Posted by Azrael I'm a little surprised I didn't think there would be many it's not as popular as the 4, 2 or 1 gb options.

yeah very strange allot of 3Gb users

[datoekplgd]

Well maybe this will answer the question, i found it on some website:

This paper from HP helps explain it–the platform can theoretically support the full 4GB, but your hardware is going to allocate some of the address space (not the physical RAM) to the PCI bus, the video adapter memory address space, and other resources. 32-bit OSs need to use part of the full 4GB address space to address these resources, subtracting from the maximum memory you have available to the OS and applications:

The PCI memory addresses starting down from 4 GB are used for things like the BIOS, IO cards, networking, PCI hubs, bus bridges, PCI-Express, and video/graphics cards. The BIOS takes up about 512 KB starting from the very top address. Then each of the other items mentioned are allocated address ranges below the BIOS range. The largest block of addresses is allocated for today’s high performance graphics cards which need addresses for at least the amount of memory on the graphics card. The net result is that a high performance x86-based computer may allocate 512 MB to more than 1 GB for the PCI memory address range before any RAM (physical user memory) addresses are allocated.

So, if your video adapter has 512MB of RAM (like mine does), your maximum memory is going to at most be 3.5GB, because Vista has to use 512MB of that address space to address your video memory. It’ll actually be lower than the 3.5GB because there are other hardware resources that need address space, too. So, it never hurts to fill your computer with 4GB of RAM–you’ll definitely get the max, but you won’t be able to address it all. You probably won’t be able to address much more than 3GB, and you might not be able to address more than 2GB.
The paper also mentions something interesting about 64-bit computers. Basically, depending on the hardware, you might be limited to 4GB of RAM even if you install 64-bit Windows Vista.

Pheeewww...swwt