FSX and Low Virtual Memory TheDude71 <TheDude71.3kbzbc[ at ]DoNotSpam.com> 12/13/2008 12:01:28 AM I am running Vista 32bit with 4gigs of ram, AMD Phenom 9950, just put in an ATI 4870X2 with 8.11 drivers. I have two hard drives, one 250gb with the OS and FS9 and FSX on it and another 500gb with really nothing on it. I have my virtual memory set up as follows: C: and D: drive set to system managed. Should I set the custom size and to what intial and max size??? Total paging file size for all drives: Min: 16mb Recommended:4605mb Currently allocated 6740mb Im leaning towards the 4870x2 card the cause of the memory leak not sure if it is a driver issue, might install the 5.8 version and see what happens. Also, plan on moving FS9 and FSX to the bigger drive. Will this help?? Thanks for any advise and I know this thread is out there many times, but they are all old, so I wanted to start a new one. Thanks again Brett -- TheDude71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheDude71's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/thedude71.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-vista-games/1086760.htm http://forums.techarena.in

Re: FSX and Low Virtual Memory TheDude71 <TheDude71.3kc7nf[ at ]DoNotSpam.com> 12/13/2008 2:41:56 AM Think I found my answer......upgrade to vista 64bit version. 32bit can not handle anything more the 4gb of RAM......does this sound right??? -- TheDude71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheDude71's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/thedude71.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-vista-games/1086760.htm http://forums.techarena.in

Re: FSX and Low Virtual Memory "Robert McMillan" <rmcmillan[ at ]bigpond.com> 12/13/2008 3:34:56 AM Thats right vista32 can only handle 4gb of memory (this includes ram, video cards, and other system devices). So your recent upgrade to a 4870X2 with 2Gb of video memory means your operating system can only make use of somewhere under 2GB of ram (depending on what other hardware you have installed). Upgrading to Vista 64 will allow you to use all 4gb of ram (or more if you have it) as well as a big video card. "TheDude71" <TheDude71.3kc7nf[ at ]DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:TheDude71.3kc7nf[ at ]DoNotSpam.com... [Quoted Text] > > Think I found my answer......upgrade to vista 64bit version. 32bit can > not handle anything more the 4gb of RAM......does this sound right??? > > > -- > TheDude71 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > TheDude71's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/thedude71.htm > View this thread: > http://forums.techarena.in/windows-vista-games/1086760.htm > > http://forums.techarena.in >

Re: FSX and Low Virtual Memory TheDude71 <TheDude71.3kdlna[ at ]DoNotSpam.com> 12/13/2008 8:26:33 PM Thanks for your reply. My system is very very stable and from what I have researched,the new drivers for the 64bit version has improved that OS quite abit. So.....it an upgrade for me. Thanks again. -- TheDude71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheDude71's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/thedude71.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-vista-games/1086760.htm http://forums.techarena.in

Re: FSX and Low Virtual Memory Joe <JoeQ[ at ]public.tv> 12/18/2008 4:26:17 PM TheDude71 <TheDude71.3kc7nf[ at ]DoNotSpam.com> wrote in news:TheDude71.3kc7nf[ at ]DoNotSpam.com: [Quoted Text] > > Think I found my answer......upgrade to vista 64bit version. 32bit can > not handle anything more the 4gb of RAM......does this sound right??? > > You could just ignore the problem if you want, honestly with 4 gigs of ram you shouldn't have to hit the HD too often for virtual memory. Drop the D: drive from your virtual memory settings, no reason to use 2 drives. Leave the size settings to automatic. Assuming you're running NTFS file system there shouldn't be any issue running Vista 32 bit with that setup. In actuality Vista will only utilize about 3.5 gigs ram, but you probably won't notice the difference between Vista 32 and Vista 64 Either way, upgrade to 64-bit, or don't. -- Joe

Re: FSX and Low Virtual Memory TheDude71 <TheDude71.3kobrc[ at ]DoNotSpam.com> 12/19/2008 4:11:10 PM Thanks for your reply. Actually Vista 32 was the problem. With the 4gigs of ram and 2 on my card, vista could not handle the card, so that was the reason for the low virtual memory with FSX running. Upgraded to 64 and problem solved. All ram accessed now and improvement noted. Thanks again!! -- TheDude71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheDude71's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/thedude71.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-vista-games/1086760.htm http://forums.techarena.in