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Princess Garnet · Jan 1, 2012, 02:35 PM

First off, great work on this. I remember coming across this (and you) from The Sims 3 forums.

Secondly, I have one or two other programs for you to add to the list that benefits from this, which is actually why I registered!

Those are the World Builders for Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars and it's expansion pack, Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath. Many might be aware of the dreaded "Out of memory" crash with either of those. It never occurred to me to try this to fix them since they were sometimes random (and shame on me since I knew of their high RAM use!).

Here is is crashing upon trying to load a map (just loaded with no map took ~1.5GB, by the way!). This was attempted three times so it was reproduceable for me.

You can see ~1.85GB is putting it close to the 2GB limit. After using this program to make it Large Address Aware...

Success! RAM use is barely higher at the start, but it was enough! That's for the Kane's Wrath World Builder, but the original World Builder is the same thing; different day, so I'm positive it's same crash would be fixed by the same method. They use a lot of RAM because they apparently load a whole lot more than the game alone would. There's been suggested fixes such as using the lower LOD settings, but then you don't see exactly how they'll turn out, plus that doesn't always work either. This did the trick though!

Thanks again for the work!

Jan 1, 2012, 02:35 PM	#154
Princess Garnet Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	First off, great work on this. I remember coming across this (and you) from The Sims 3 forums. Secondly, I have one or two other programs for you to add to the list that benefits from this, which is actually why I registered! Those are the World Builders for Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars and it's expansion pack, Command & Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath. Many might be aware of the dreaded "Out of memory" crash with either of those. It never occurred to me to try this to fix them since they were sometimes random (and shame on me since I knew of their high RAM use!). Here is is crashing upon trying to load a map (just loaded with no map took ~1.5GB, by the way!). This was attempted three times so it was reproduceable for me. You can see ~1.85GB is putting it close to the 2GB limit. After using this program to make it Large Address Aware... Success! RAM use is barely higher at the start, but it was enough! That's for the Kane's Wrath World Builder, but the original World Builder is the same thing; different day, so I'm positive it's same crash would be fixed by the same method. They use a lot of RAM because they apparently load a whole lot more than the game alone would. There's been suggested fixes such as using the lower LOD settings, but then you don't see exactly how they'll turn out, plus that doesn't always work either. This did the trick though! Thanks again for the work!