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How do increase XP memory size to 3GB to stop out of memory?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:44 pm
by RD444
i am reading this article
http://www.ableton.com/articles/how-to-out-of-memory
but I don't understand what i have to do and is there a risk?
will in muck something up at a later date?
Cheers
Re: How do increase XP memory size to 3GB to stop out of memory?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:27 pm
by cotdagoo
Open boot.ini (likely in the root of C:\)
Add /3GB to the line that boots your OS, save file and reboot.
Can't see it mucking anything up.. I ran my old laptop like this with 4gb ram - but really only 3.25 would be seen by Windows.
May or may not help with out of memory issues.. I still found some of my projects crapping out at 1.7-1.9gb ram in use, even with the /3GB switch (there was still free memory available).
Re: How do increase XP memory size to 3GB to stop out of memory?
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:32 pm
by RD444
cheers bud
I'll give it a try
Re: How do increase XP memory size to 3GB to stop out of memory?
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:53 am
by RD444
cotdagoo wrote:Open boot.ini (likely in the root of C:\)
Add /3GB to the line that boots your OS, save file and reboot.
Can't see it mucking anything up.. I ran my old laptop like this with 4gb ram - but really only 3.25 would be seen by Windows.
May or may not help with out of memory issues.. I still found some of my projects crapping out at 1.7-1.9gb ram in use, even with the /3GB switch (there was still free memory available).
I'm getting crapping out at 1.3 so its gotta be better.
Thanks again bud
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For anyone else with the problem:
solutions for anyone else on XP
takes 2 mins
can mess things up.
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what live is doing:
http://www.ableton.com/articles/how-to-out-of-memory
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change the boot ini file to get more RAM
http://www.maxi-pedia.com/3GB+switch+Wi ... t.ini+3+GB
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How to edit the boot ini
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022
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