@Belgareth: apparently you have server hardware. Windows 2000 and Windows XP can use up to 4 GB, but can only assign 2 GB per application. With a little trick that can be increased to 3 GB per application (a startup switch, I don't know exactly which, but it can be done). Only Win2000/2003 Server can use more than 4 GB (Enterprise or Datacenter edition)

Unfortunately, only a few applications can take advantage of that extra GB. Most of them are typical server applications, for instance SQL Server.

Vue is not one of those few. If it's compiled using an MS enterprise edition compiler (which I doubt), e-on could set a compiler switch to enable 3 GB memory use.

Still, having more than 2 GB of physical RAM can be useful; the "extra" RAM will be assigned to other apps and the OS. And what's left goes to system cache.
I've got 4 GB on my Athlon64 system, and Vue can claim a full 2 GB - and quite often has to claim the full 2 GB, my scenes aren't exactly "light".

So upgrading RAM to 3-4 GB can be pretty useful. More than that is a waste of money indeed.

Message edited on: 04/17/2005 21:32

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