Tomsde opened this issue on Sep 19, 2007 ยท 3 posts
MarkHirst posted Wed, 19 September 2007 at 3:52 PM
Putting 4GB of RAM into a 32bit machine running XP would be wasted. This little gem was revealed to me by a support colleague. If you go to the computer properties of a machine with 4GB of RAM, you see that only 3.6 GB or so is actually seen. Applications typically will only be given a 2GB virtual address space, although some can be tricked or fooled into working with a 3GB address space. Poser running as a separate process would be given a 2GB virtual address space too, the fun bit is that as memory usage rises, you will find that the machine will page to disk to satisfy demands. My experience with Vue having moved from a 1.5 GB machine to a newer faster 3GB machine is that the extra memory makes no difference in terms of the perennial out of memory and stability issues with Vue. I hit the wall with three or four Poser figures in 1.5 GB of RAM as I do with 3GB. The main benefit I've found with 3GB is being able to work with other applications at the same time, and avoiding the slow paging of virtual memory to and from the disk.