4gb patch for shV?

[flakmonkey]

I still havent really touched sh5 since i bought it, apart from a few single missions to coo at the pretty graphics, i was just wondering if there is a 4gb patch for sh5 like the one for sh3 and if so is there any benefit to using it on a system with only 6gb ddr3 ram and win7 x64?

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by flakmonkey

I still havent really touched sh5 since i bought it, apart from a few single missions to coo at the pretty graphics, i was just wondering if there is a 4gb patch for sh5 like the one for sh3 and if so is there any benefit to using it on a system with only 6gb ddr3 ram and win7 x64?

I have 8GB DDR3 RAM and have my swap file disabled (use 2 X OCZ Vertex 3 SSD's in RAID 0) and everything runs fine without a 4GB patch on Win7 Ultimate 64bit

[fitzcarraldo]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

I have 8GB DDR3 RAM and have my swap file disabled (use 2 X OCZ Vertex 3 SSD's in RAID 0) and everything runs fine without a 4GB patch on Win7 Ultimate 64bit

Hi, Dark: How you disable the swap file?

4GbPatch: the patch works with SH5 and all the EXE files. I patched with 4GbPatch other programs and they work fine.

Regards.

Fitzcarraldo

[mia389]

I have 4gb ddr3 with windows 7 64bit and have no problems.

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by fitzcarraldo

Hi, Dark: How you disable the swap file?

If you are using SSD's you should disable the swap file to prevent unnecessary writes to them (thus reducing their available life). In Win7:
Start-->Control Panel-->System-->Advanced tab-->In performance box click settings-->click advanced tab-->Under virtual memory box click change-->Click no paging file-->click set-->click ok.

You should also turn off indexing as it's not needed due to the extremely low seek times of SSDs.

[Paajtor]

I was under the impression, that Windows needs a min. of 2Mb swapfile, otherwise Defragmentation won't work?
At least, in systems with a regular HD.

But what's the fuzz about anyway? I ordered SH5 today, and I'm building a Win64bit 6Gb DDR3 SATA/600HD system.
Should I expect problems?

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Paajtor

I was under the impression, that Windows needs a min. of 2Mb swapfile, otherwise Defragmentation won't work?
At least, in systems with a regular HD.

You don't defragment SSDs, very bad to do. The controller on the SSD decides where to put data (it's looking at read/write cycles on each memory cell on the SSD - they can only be written to x amount of times before they start failing). Defragmenting an SSD does needless writes to memory cells as it shuffles data around. Besides with the extremely low seek times of SSDs defragmented files doesn't matter anymore.

[Paajtor]

uhuh, that's why I said, in regular HD systems.

I once tried to defrag my mp3's SD-card....all was wiped off

[fitzcarraldo]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

If you are using SSD's you should disable the swap file to prevent unnecessary writes to them (thus reducing their available life). In Win7:
Start-->Control Panel-->System-->Advanced tab-->In performance box click settings-->click advanced tab-->Under virtual memory box click change-->Click no paging file-->click set-->click ok.

You should also turn off indexing as it's not needed due to the extremely low seek times of SSDs.

Many thanks, TDW!

Regards.

Fitzcarraldo