Question on memory usage

[mensrea]

Would someone be able to tell me if DW:U has large address awareness? I have tried to check it out myself with the resource monitor but I have honestly never observed the game using more than a couple gigs.

[Jethro420]

I don't think it does... same here. Two gigs max.

[Jethro420]

Coincidentally, just found this in another thread here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threa ... re.112556/

Gonna give it a shot.

[mensrea]

Could you let me know how that works out? It could double the amount of memory available if what we are thinking is correct.

[Jethro420]

Well, it acts like it's doing something. But, I just happened to wipe my old saves, yesterday. It was a bit crowded in there. So, I'm playing the game I was playing and waiting for the demand to pick up. I'm still not using all of two gigs. I guess we'll find out when it gets interesting.

If anyone has a busy saved game, they could test it faster

By the way, Norton says it's clean.

[hasoos]

I am going to try it tonight. I have a large game saved that went into "Slideshow" mode late in the game. It was running so slow that if I turned it up over .25 speed it would completely lock up. But I was unsure if it was because I started the game in one version, and continued in another after a patch, or it was just a memory issue. Anyhow I will give it a run and see what happens.

[lurchi]

So, did it work? [&:]

[Jethro420]

I've been too busy with real life to find out, I'm afraid. I figure that will change next week.

[mensrea]

I experimented with it a lot and did not notice the game using more memory than usual. I was using my mod with every race in game so there were a lot of ships, but it was still a small map. I need to try it out on a large map with lots of planets.

[Knickers]

Yeah I need a memory fix too, DWU only uses 2 gigs and this makes it hard to run the largest maps on my computer.

[Knickers]

I did it, and now DWU runs much smoother, it works!