worth upgrading to to 4Go of RAM?

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:24 am

i recently ran into a "not enough memory" message from Live. i currently have 2Go of RAM. would moving to 3 or 4 help?
i'm asking the only relevant result i found using the search on the forum was Alex saying that a process could not use more than 2Go.

thanks.

adventurepants_ · Post by **adventurepants_** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:29 am

3gb definitely.

after 3gb on XP there are diminishing returns.

lvehon · Post by **lvehon** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:38 am

But what about if its dual channel? Don't you have to install in pairs?

adventurepants_ · Post by **adventurepants_** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:42 am

mostly, yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-channel_architecture

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:52 am

The last time I looked into dual channel, it seemed that more memory, unmatched, would have the performance edge over less memory, matched.

But you should be able to have 1 pair 1G and one pair 512 (desktop, anyway)

lvehon · Post by **lvehon** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:18 am

I should of thought about another 512 pair

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:43 am

well I'm pretty sure peeddrroo runs laptops so if he only has 2 slots (?) then it is a step up from 2g - 4g anyway..

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:49 am

your f3jv laptop can only handle 2gigabytes dude

ekwipt · Post by **ekwipt** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:50 am

945 chipsets on laptops can only handle 2 GB of Memory

965 can do 4GB

Xp 32 bit can only handle 4 gb at anyone time
So for instance if your video card has 512 mb on board you'll only get 3.5 in your system profile

amigo · Post by **amigo** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:24 am

I have 4GB in my computer but only 3GB is recognised by windows.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:25 am

amigo wrote:I have 4GB in my computer but only 3GB is recognised by windows.

move to 64 bit Winderrz..

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:46 am

thanks for the answers guys.

i thought i was a fool asking that, but actually it made sense.

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:48 am

oh, and sorry about the "Go", that's in french. i obviously meant "Gb".

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:50 am

peeddrroo wrote:oh, and sorry about the "Go", that's in french. i obviously meant "Gb".

i found the not enough memory issues in Live tend to be more as a result of your 'rig' i.e. the way you have racks etc etc set up instead of the content you have in Live.

also it's worth noting that most of the errors caused by this are only at the time of launching a live set, but Live happily runs with a rig of much greater complexity whilst it is open.

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:55 am

sweetjesus wrote:
peeddrroo wrote:oh, and sorry about the "Go", that's in french. i obviously meant "Gb".
i found the not enough memory issues in Live tend to be more as a result of your 'rig' i.e. the way you have racks etc etc set up instead of the content you have in Live.

also it's worth noting that most of the errors caused by this are only at the time of launching a live set, but Live happily runs with a rig of much greater complexity whilst it is open.

well, not in my case.
i got the "not enough memory" message after running the same set for quite some time.
RAM usage was at about 1.6 GB in the task manager. freezing lots of session drums tracks and other stuff didn't help much. got to reduce it more i guess. maybe it's the 2 fully loaded instances of kontakt3 that are the problem (though each one says memory usage is about 200MB).

are you 100% sure my f3jv won't be able to make use of more memory than 2GB?