Does anyone know if Vue 6 Infinite is "Large Address Aware"?   If not, would it be a violation of copyright to modify the Vue 6 Infinite .exe file to make it so (using MS's Visual Studio)?  My reason for asking is I'm running Windows XP Pro with 4 Gb Ram and am using the /3Gb switch in my boot .ini file.  More info here (though this pertains to Poser 6):
http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/3gb.html 

Hi,

I can't answer that question but what I can say is any modification of the executable would be in copyright violation, also I believe most ToS say you cannot modify or reverse engineer the code.

Hope That Helps

Jon

Thanks, appreciate the response (and I was afraid of that :o).  I'm hoping it's already "large address aware".   

Quote - I can't answer that question but what I can say is any modification of the executable would be in copyright violation, also I believe most ToS say you cannot modify or reverse engineer the code.

The 32-bit version doesn't appear to have that flag set in the header.

Setting the "Large Address Aware" flag in an EXEs header is not a copyright violation, there's also no guarantee that you won't run into problems (depends on how any libraries used cope).

Thanks for the response, as I said, I hope it's already set, then I won't have to be concerned about copyright issues. 

My mistake nruddock, I assumed that editing any .exe would be in violation of any intellectual copyright.

Jon

Well, I just added "LargeAddressAware" to Vue 6 Infinite.exe and everything seems to be working as it should (and btw I have the 32 bit version of XP Pro).  I'll post back if I run into any problems.  System Resources percentage is considerably higher now than it was before. 

This "hack" did work for P6 (see -> http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/3gb.html), the trickier bit is adding the /3GB flag to boot.ini

Essentially what you need to do is looks at the "Peak Memory Consumption" using the Task Manager, and generate a very large scene.
If you see a value of over 2GB then it's basically working.
Problems may not appear until you whatever your doing hits the code that chokes.

Again thanks, I'll do as you suggest and post back with the results. 

nruddock:

OK, just did as you suggested and Peak Memory Usage went up to 2,434,080 K, so it appears to have worked.  Vue was still stable and I was rendering the scene when the memory usage peaked and then started going back down.  Again, I appreciate your input. 

Quote - I appreciate your input.

stewer is the person to thank, he came up with the idea of trying this out for Poser (it's his tutorial I linked).

Actually I included his link in my initial post. :o).  I was basically trying to find out if Vue 6 Infinite was Large Address Aware or not, which you answered for me, additionally providing information as to how to make sure it actually worked and info about copyright.    Most of the information I obtained to attempt this actually came from MS:[

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb147385.aspx#The__LARGEADDRESSAWARE_flag](http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb147385.aspx#The__LARGEADDRESSAWARE_flag)

So again I appreciate you input (as well as stewer's :o)