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Originally Posted by Reece
@ [SJ]nailz, the patch is so that an application, like SH4, can use memory greater than 2Gb, so naturally nothing else is required for 64 bit system to work
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WRONG
It quite clearly says in the readme that the 4GB patch is an attempt to try to make a 32bit application use 64bits worth of memory
ON A 64bit SYSTEM.
SH3 is a 32bit app (x86 architecture) it can only access less than 3GB of RAM. It doesn't matter whether you have XP32bit or XP64bit, SH3 is a 32bit program, and that is that.
Using this patch ON A 64bit OS will give SH3 a memory boost.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Reece
BUT it can be used in 32 bit XP with the /3Gb switch added to the boot.ini file, this will allow the application to use 3Gb instead of 2Gb, HOWEVER, although SH5 will now run other applications are effected by this switch causing stuttering, lockups etc, this is what I found so I don't use the patch!:
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Sure, it can, but you are altering the way XP orders it's memory by using the /3Gb switch, this is why the jumping and stuttering with other programs, not because of this patch.
If you are using it to try force more memory on a 32bit system of course it will cause problems
as this was not its intended use.
In the first quote you mention
SH4, in this quote
SH5, I'm talking about
SH3. I don't know about the others, but SH3 running on a 64bit OS, will benefit from this patch.
Do you have a 64bit OS? judging from your posts, I think not, I hate to slam you but you are telling people to not use a patch because of
your experience in using it incorrectly.
To sum it up;
If you have a 32bit system USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
If you have a 64bit system and 4GB or more of RAM USE IT. If you want to.