"although CapnScurvy's link to the large address aware patch didn't help me per se (perhaps it's not win7 compatible but vista-only, i don't know), it did point me in the right direction."
My reply is to your statement as quoted as I am no expert on Windows, but, LAA when I ran it on Windows XP, Win 7 as provided by Bootcamp on Mac, results in the same thing as manually doing it using CFF Explorer. The 4gb patch executable does the same as well. Also, if on a 32 bit system I believe you do have to edit the Boot.ini as you describe, but I don't think you need to do that on a 64bit system (not sure). As you have discovered, the bottom line is that SH4 runs much better, with fewer CTDs (maybe even none) when you edit the SH4.exe to use 3gb memory. I wish this was a solution to "bad saves" as well, but I still get them, though less frequently. I applaud your diligence in bringing this to the forum.
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