How do I allocate more memory
 

How do I allocate more memory to protools and to dae?

Re: How do I allocate more memory
 

I have 1024 megs of ram, how can i allocate more memory to protools and dae. I know how to do this on my mac based tdm system, but i'm at a loss on my windows xp system, please help. thanks

Re: How do I allocate more memory
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">you can start by lower your RAM to 512 megs. I hear that is the limit for XP, and it will do worse if you put more in there, someone else maybe can confirm this.

As far as allocating, your computer allocates its memory with what you have open, so if you want the most of your resources going to Pro tools, then just don't have anything else running. Hit ctrl-alt-del, and go to the 'processes' tab, see what kinda stuff you have running, and how much memory it is taking up. Get rid of what you don't need.
If you want to limit the amount of applications that become active on start up, go to start->run, and type msconfig. go to the startup tab, and get rid of the stuff you don't want to automatically start up when windows starts..


hope this helps.
Tim

Re: How do I allocate more memory
 

Memory under Windows is a Shared Resource.. see this similar thread on the Mac forum which I answered.

Rail

Re: How do I allocate more memory
 

This might help, however i can't remove my ram to have less. Also I can only run protools with the dae set to "0" this seems really odd to me.

Re: How do I allocate more memory
 

DAE under Windows.. as it is under the Mac with v5.3.x and later.. is a DLL.. which uses the RAM allocated to the application using the Dynamic Link Library.

Rail

Re: How do I allocate more memory
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">This pertains to Win 9x/ME not XP. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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Control panel> System> Advanced Tab> Click Settings in the Performance box, > Advanced Tab, > Memory Usage- click System cache.

This reserves more memory for your application.

Re: How do I allocate more memory
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">why not?