Wouldn't that be nice. Load in LARGE libraries, then we'd all have 256 megs of ram still.UltraJv wrote:Virtual memory in this instance would be useless as the apps in question (mainly sample vstis)demand physical ram.
Devon
64-Bit Cubase?
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- KVRAF
- 7886 posts since 24 Feb, 2003 from Earth, USA
Devon
Simple music philosophy - Those who can, make music. Those who can't, make excuses.
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- KVRAF
- 7886 posts since 24 Feb, 2003 from Earth, USA
I think you're confusing it actually. PAE - Physical Address Extention. It changes the structure from 32 bit(4 gigs) to 36 bit (64 Gigs) of how many bits it has for address lines to access physical RAM in the box. Chaning how much mmeory an app has access to is based on how it's compiled on a 32 bit compiler.kp wrote:I wish people would stop confusing RAM with virtual memory - XP (and 2K) without using PAE can allocate 2 or 3GB of memory to an application, not 2-3GB of RAM. Very important difference.
Devon
Simple music philosophy - Those who can, make music. Those who can't, make excuses.
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- KVRian
- 694 posts since 6 Aug, 2002 from London, UK
Nope, I'm really not confused. Please, go and read up on this a lot before continuing to post about memory.
PAE is a even more of a nightmare, because it maps chunks into the first 4GB of physical address space (much like EMS under DOS), which makes it even slower than normal memory access.
PAE is a even more of a nightmare, because it maps chunks into the first 4GB of physical address space (much like EMS under DOS), which makes it even slower than normal memory access.