32-bit Windows can directly address only 3.2 GB of memory, period. Yes, you can make it seem like more by bank switching, but there's a lot of overhead to a bank switching scheme. The Large Address Aware module was specifically made for 64-bit Windows.
So maybe Large Address Aware could have minimal benefit for a 32-bit machine. Probably not, since it was designed for a 64-bit OS. In a week I'll have a 32-bit virtual machine to test it on, but there's a lot of time in setting that up, a disk drive to buy and install--just doesn't fit my priorities right now.
The question I'm asking later today is "Will Large Address Aware fix our Conte Verde and German Flags problems on my 64-bit machine? We'll address later the questions of whether FOTRSU is appropriate for a 32-bit OS and machine.
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