Large Address Aware

Was that what Process Monitor caught? The Sims 3 crashes between 1.6 and 1.7 GiB. Maybe it has to do with how much memory is allocated to the video card. I see you have a 1 GiB card and since you are increasing the texture sizes, it is possible that the game could be reserving 800 MiB to the video card while TS3 reserves around 300 MiB. VRAM is really the only possible explaination why it isn't always 1.99999 GiB before it crashes.

 

I remember seeing weird texture stuff in Singularity. It seems like I remember looking at a surface up close and thought, "that looks like crap." I'm usually not one to notice those sort of things either. I wonder if there is a way to detect how much VRAM an application has tied up. I think it is pretty specific to the game though so nothing I could add to Process Monitor.

 

First, I would like to thank you for this program. I was referred here by player-x who had a similar problem in WOW with the storage problem. My question is simple and I think Mussels explained it, but how I am a bit worried, as Blizzard indicated that we should back up the original program as updates might have problems after running this wonderful LAA program.

How exactly should I go about doing this? I have my wow folder, there is a Launcher.exe. and then the actual program wow.exe. Should I simply make a copy of wow.exe then rename one to OLD?
Then run the LAA program and link to the NON old wow.exe? I just dont want to make things hard on myself.

Thank you!

 

Because the application only modifies one bit (a true/false value) it always finds the same way, backups really aren't necessary. If the program doesn't run as expected with LAA enabled, simply run the program again, select the same executable, and disable it by clearing the checkbox or setting LAA to false (depends on the current "mode" being used).

 

Awesome DUDE! Using this for Skyrim!

 

Thanks, remembered about this for Skyrim.
P.S.

You can remove WoW from that list, it uses LAA from patch 4.1 (it was deployed in the end of April ).

 

And with that.. we should sticky the thread..

Who else thinks so?

 

Yes, sticky it please, probably i am not the only one who has to google it after doing Shift+Del. xD

 

sorry for this stupid question i dont understand /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB this is how is supposed to be for 32b with 3gb

 

There's a limit in 32-bit Windows that forbids a single application from using more than 2 GiB of RAM. The /3GB switch bumps the limit up to 3 GiB. /userva can further customize the amount in megabibytes.

 

how much you recomend with /userva and how to do that with command prompt ?

 

just got blue screen of death on skyrim first time when i did this

 

Skyrim on I think it was 1.2 patch has compatibility issues with large address aware. It might work again in the next patch assuming they didn't patch it to be large address aware anyway.

 

They use different executables?

 

Yep, but it also screws any driver enhancements that have been made for the game.

 

Wow, Skyrim is apparently full of fail with large address aware compatbility.