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Originally Posted by Col7777
Thanks Pro,
I have posted this before but here goes:
My SH4 is a disk version plus I got the upgrade years ago which I copied to disk making it 1.5
I have it installed on my D: drive D:/Ubisoft/Silent Hunter 4
My PC is running Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit I have 16GB Ram, i5 CPU 3.50 GHz
The Mod I have installed is WeDiveAtDawn the Time Excel was no higher than 1024
Just out of interest I was playing one scenario and got 3 ships showing on the map, I set a course for them, I got closer and closer and no sight of them, I was almost on top of them but they were not there but they were showing on the map, I gave up and found other miles away.
Col.
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The "
Orange" text above is what prevents a full use of LAA on your computer. You basically have two options. The easiest, but scariest, it to alter your boot procedure for Windows 7. This will give you probably close to 3Gig of RAM to use for SH4 and mods. The alternative is to download a Windows 7 64-bit ISO and re-do your Windows as 64-bit. You would end up with more RAM available, maybe up to 4Gig this way. You use your same license key, but you would then be using the 64-bit version. The only cost involved with that is if you order the MS disk instead of downloading an ISO, or even a USB stick image to install with. The main problem with doing that is having to re-install ~everything~. You could look at MS's
32-bit & 64-bit Windows FAQs for a little info. Very involved but in the long-run, the better way - although, Windows 7 Support has been dropped, and it won't be long before things quit working with Windows 7, which is about as sad as XP going away for me...
Anyway, the "easy but potentially dangerous" way, of altering your boot process, in to change the Boot.ini with BCDEdit, or go to NeoSmart's site, and get their "non-commercial" copy of
EasyBCD. Look near the lower-right potion of that screen. You do have to "register" your email with them. These people also have a 4gig utility, and more info on that page. It's a bit more "safe" to do edits with EasyBCD, and they do have some helpful info there. As background, MS has all sorts of documents online, such as
BCDEdit Options Reference that can give you a background of what's going on when you use EasyBCD, or if you wish to do it directly yourself. You would be most interested in the
BCDEdit /set info, and the use of "increaseuserva", which has a link pointing to
4-Gigabyte Tuning: BCDEdit and Boot.ini. All of that info is clear as mud, right? Here's what EasyBCD looks like while running:
You would of course use the "BCD Backup/Repair" first, and make a back-up of what you have. You should also have a Windows Emergency Recovery disk close by, just in case, and preferably all of your data backed-up. Once your boot is backed-up, then you can change things. Let me know if you want to dive that deep...
Edit - Man! that pic is ~huge~!!! what happened to the little thing on my screen
