sandmarine opened this issue on Oct 14, 2009 ยท 64 posts
ghonma posted Thu, 15 October 2009 at 5:15 AM
Quote - First of all, for XP 32 the 3GB /Large switch mentioned is very wrong information, that is for XP Pro, not XP32. If you have WinXP 32 SP3 and you have a new laptop with 4Gb, XP32 SP3 will see and use 3.5Gb of that. Whatever you do never use the 3GB /Large switch on XP32! It's for XP64 only!
From microsoft's own site:
"/3GB
This switch forces x86-based systems to allocate 3 GB of virtual address space to programs and 1 GB to the kernel and to executive components. A program must be designed to take advantage of the additional memory address space. With this switch, user mode programs can access 3 GB of memory instead of the usual 2 GB that Windows allocates to user mode programs. The switch moves the starting point of kernel memory to 3 GB."
What do you think that 'x86' in there stands for ?