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Old 02-05-2010, 07:01 PM
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Default How do i activate the 3gb switch?
lol, where is it??
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Old 02-06-2010, 12:23 PM
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jbgb provided me with this link in another thread :

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...AE/PAEmem.mspx


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Old 02-06-2010, 02:18 PM
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I just ran a basic test on this feature - no major differences as yet....

I supposed I'll have to keep working on large sessions to be able to tell.


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If you have 4GB of installed RAM and are running a large address aware version of Pro Tools, such as 8 and up... The 3GB switch will allow Pro Tools to access about 2.7 GB of RAM as opposed to about1.7GB without it.
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Old 02-06-2010, 09:24 PM
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Will this make a difference in windows 7, 64 bit if you have 8 GB of ram. I am unsure how PT works with 64bit but adobe programs say they have 4gb available when I start them. Just curious
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NO. The /3GB switch is not for your 64 bit system.
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Old 02-06-2010, 09:51 PM
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ok thanks, I have been trying to figure that out for a while.
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That kinda sucks, i wanted to use atleast 4gb of ram.
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Old 02-07-2010, 10:30 AM
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NO. The /3GB switch is not for your 64 bit system.
Specifically, the /3GB switch is not supported for your 64-bit system because it is not needed. (i.e. it already allows 3GB+ executables) I've run 8.0.3 with executable sizes up to around 4GB without a problem on Win7-64.

There were two halves to the /3Gb switch. The first was the program itself. If it wasn't specifically compiled to allow more than 2Gb of address space, then that was the limitation, /3Gb switch or not. If it was compiled to allow extended address space, then you could exceed the 2Gb limit if the /3Gb switch was specified in the boot.ini.

This is all moot with 8.0.3 on Win-7 64. 8.0.3 is still a 32-bit app, so 4Gb is the limit.

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That kinda sucks, i wanted to use atleast 4gb of ram.
If you have VST plugins that need more space, take a look at jBridge. It allows the plugins to run in their own memory space.
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