Thought of making a really heavy mission with quadzillions of ships, but then it struck me! The OM Museum!
Always known as a "Not To Be Used!" option because of crash!
So loaded OM with all stuff and quite right - SH4 crashed.
Here's the Process Monitor screendump.
Note how the max. memory use do not exceed 1.65 GB! but it still crashes...
Now the LAA patched SH4 Process Monitor screendump:
Conclusion:
Reason for SH4 crashing in Museum, is because of the 2GB limitation. Using the LAA patch now allows for opening the museum.
Max. memory 2.21 GB for OM!
However, the sea is
very strange.
Like high speed water flow... but of course, noone has ever seen it before...
Been running with the LAA patch for some 10 hours and have found no side effects, so I would say it's safe to use.
And if you would like to see the Museum, it's a must have!
/edit, note re. memory use.
Extra memory used for 9 to 23 ships = 1.40GB to 1.48 = 80MB
With Max memory = 1.65GB = crash, then we have 1.64GB-1.48GB = 160MB in real overhead.
Which is only twice of what required to meet 22 ships in the open ocean. No harbour, shallows, land etc.
All my installs now have the LAA patch. Imho it's a must have. Thanks for the hint, BubbleHead!
Core i7-930, 6GB, Win7 64-bit used in test.
Btw. Bubble, you should change the thread title to "[Solved] What does the 4 gig Patch do?"
It does nothing but good!
