Hi all,

I stumbled across a thread in the vue forum the other day, which had a link to a little utility that can make applications Largeaddressaware.

What this means is that software that has had this utility run on them can address upto 3gb ram on XP PRO 32, or 4 gb ram on XP RO 64.

Well being the adventurous chappy that I am I decided to download the Utility and run it on Carrara 6.1Pro, and I am very happy to report that Carrara is now accessing 3+gb of ram on my system. (I am running XP PRO 64).

If anybody else would be interested in running this util, give me a 'yay' in this thread and I will post it up.

P.S. if it knackers your version of Carrara, then the 'IT WASN'T ME' disclaimer stands.

Cheers,

Nick.

I've wondered how well Carrara would work with largeaddressaware. I hadn't heard of this utility, but I had discussed the largeaddressaware option with a friend of mine.

So, "yay" to you Nick for being brave enough to try it out!

Joe

Is it working with Vista 64 bits?

I am with Joe-B, I am aware of the scripting that must be done inside of Windows 32bit that will allow it to address 3GBs of RAM per application on XP Pro 32bit version, but you do not need it on XP Pro 64bit version as it will address up 32 GBs of RAM per application on it's own and is only limited to the amount of RAM that the machine will currently take, usually 8 to 16 GBs. Same with Vista Ultimate 64 Bit Version. As for the Utility, I would like very much to take a look at this and give it a whirl on an older 3.2 GHz machiine of mine. SO Please Post Up!!!

OK, I found it and when I get home from work will test drive this little baby!!!
LINK HERE

P.S. To My Post Above this one. Also Limitation to RAM Address on a 64bit system is the Application it's self like Vue 6 for instance only 2GBs no matter what you do.

OK It seems you can squeeze a little more RAM out of Vue6 32 bit version, My Bad!!!
Doesn't matter though cause this is the Carrara Forum and Carrara Rocks!!!!

Ah Thelby,

you beat me to it. I don't have any plugins for my version of Cararra so I am not sure if running the program will affect plugins, as it makes a change to the Carrara exe.??

would be interested to find out.

But if you combine this with C6.1Pro's better memory and content handling and you should be able to create some huge scenes.

Let me know how it goes for you.

Nick.

That's a really good Question too, Hmmm. I have 5 Pro so it may not work for me except with Lightwave and World-Machine, which would still be OK!!! Funny thing is I took the extra 1Gig of RAM and allocated toward my Video Memory and even though I have an On-Board Integrated Video System I have had No Problems at all !!!!