PSA for those with lots of RAM - Page 2

TG626 · 04-08-14, 11:16 AM

Slow your Roll, Cap'n...

I wasn't boasting, I was stating a fact. The original post gave absolutely NO qualifiers for his own experience, simply stating that he had CTDs.

Further, in the absence of such qualifiers, he implies that sh4.exe will CTD on a system that has "lots of RAM" if it's not large address aware.

I therefore countered with my own experience, illustrating that such an assertion was not an absolute and further qualified it with declarations of my amount of RAM and OS in anticipation that this might be and unspoken part of the issue. Eg. he has Win8 and I have Win7, or 6mb isn't what he'd call "lot's of RAM" but rather some much larger number.

In hind sight I should have also stated it was 64bit, but we are well past that now that we have some qualifiers such as the large image files used for bearing tools.

So set your tampions, stow your shells, and relax...

TG626 · 04-09-14, 12:08 PM

That's one thing to look out for, various flavors of win 7 have different limits, like home doesn't have the xp mode and the max memory differs. Just be sure to do your research.

FWIW, I have home and I'm fine with no xp mode. 32 bit programs seem to run fine.

04-08-14, 11:16 AM	#1
TG626 Lieutenant Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: USS Seal - Somewhere in the Pacific Posts: 268 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 3	Slow your Roll, Cap'n... I wasn't boasting, I was stating a fact. The original post gave absolutely NO qualifiers for his own experience, simply stating that he had CTDs. Further, in the absence of such qualifiers, he implies that sh4.exe will CTD on a system that has "lots of RAM" if it's not large address aware. I therefore countered with my own experience, illustrating that such an assertion was not an absolute and further qualified it with declarations of my amount of RAM and OS in anticipation that this might be and unspoken part of the issue. Eg. he has Win8 and I have Win7, or 6mb isn't what he'd call "lot's of RAM" but rather some much larger number. In hind sight I should have also stated it was 64bit, but we are well past that now that we have some qualifiers such as the large image files used for bearing tools. So set your tampions, stow your shells, and relax... __________________ T. E. Thompson, LTCDR Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Seal (formerly S-40 (SS-145))

04-09-14, 12:08 PM	#2
TG626 Lieutenant Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: USS Seal - Somewhere in the Pacific Posts: 268 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 3	That's one thing to look out for, various flavors of win 7 have different limits, like home doesn't have the xp mode and the max memory differs. Just be sure to do your research. FWIW, I have home and I'm fine with no xp mode. 32 bit programs seem to run fine. __________________ T. E. Thompson, LTCDR Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Seal (formerly S-40 (SS-145))