Finally got the dreaded 'out of available memory' crash.

[Olderndirt]

This morning, just for laughs, I was running with all sliders maxed and res set at 2448. After about twenty minutes we locked up. My setup is XP/32 with E8500/3.16, GTX460, RAM4gb and I'm using the 'boot.ini' tweak 'userva2560'. I've got a ton of planes and several tons of scenery. Does it sound like I'm limited out or is there something left to do?

[deeknow]

The userva switch (along with the /3GB one, are you using that) fixed things for me. You might wanna look at reducing the userva setting progressively as outlined following and see if that helps any...
http://www.simforums.com/forums/outofmemor...topic29397.html

[Olderndirt]

QUOTE (deeknow @ Jul 20 2011,1:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The userva switch (along with the /3GB one, are you using that) fixed things for me. You might wanna look at reducing the userva setting progressively as outlined following and see if that helps any...
http://www.simforums.com/forums/outofmemor...topic29397.html

Took it down 128 so will see how that goes. Methinks my 32 bit days are numbered.

[Rotordude]

I was getting those errors as well even on 64bit when I only had 4gig or ram, I increased the VM to double (8gig min/max) and the oom errors went away. Worth a try.

[Olderndirt]

QUOTE (Rotordude @ Jul 21 2011,12:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I was getting those errors as well even on 64bit when I only had 4gig or ram, I increased the VM to double (8gig min/max) and the oom errors went away. Worth a try.

I'm assuming when you increased your Virtual Memory you also increased your physical memory sticks. Unfortunately 32bit XP recognizes only 3.5gb (out of 4 max) and besides my MOBO has only two dimm slots, each with a 2gb stick.

[Rotordude]

QUOTE (Olderndirt @ Jul 22 2011,3:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm assuming when you increased your Virtual Memory you also increased your physical memory sticks. Unfortunately 32bit XP recognizes only 3.5gb (out of 4 max) and besides my MOBO has only two dimm slots, each with a 2gb stick.

No that was before boosting the physical memory. I costs nothing to try .

[Olderndirt]

QUOTE (Rotordude @ Jul 21 2011,11:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No that was before boosting the physical memory. I costs nothing to try .

I will. What I need to do is study up on overclocking my E8500 duo - from all I've read, a good candidate. though I'll probably need to improve the cooling.