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Originally Posted by Reece
What's annoying is that if I edit the boot.ini file just to have the " /3GB" switch added leaving the " UserVa= xxxx" out, most of my games play with stutter or lockup and my TV card just shows a black screen, take the switch out and all goes well, placing the switch to include the " UserVa=xxxx" (doesn't matter what xxxx value is) still has exactly the same problem!  |
Then leave it alone.
Seriously, not much to be gained here anyway. More something for servers so they can use larger caches.
You know that rattle from the HD when it needs to load something and it results in a stutter in the game, since harddrives aren't that fast? It helps to deal with that. Normally it loads things into (V)RAM during those loading screens, and works from that during play. If you run out of memory though, it will need to move unused stuff from RAM to the pagefile (virtual memory; just HD space and thus far slower than RAM), or swap some stuff between it and RAM.
*at least as far as I can figure it. Pintea has a point about the virtual memory. Think we agree it won't improve performance though.
