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Rabbit
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Ram issues

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When I run programs like lightmaps and use photoshop, I get ram caused erros, one being from PS that says (not enough ram). I go into my system and its only using 1.25, while my PC says I have 8 gigs installed, It knows it is installed, so maybe one or two are dead? I would guess though if they were dead they would not say installed.
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LITOralis.nMd
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Re: Ram issues

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64bit OS?

64bit version of PS or whatever you're using for lightmapping?

32bit OS has 4GB total addressable memory, that includes your GPU RAM , so a 2GB GPU will leave only ~1.8Gb of RAM for OS + programs.
Rabbit
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Re: Ram issues

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[R-COM]LITOralis.nMd wrote:64bit OS?

64bit version of PS or whatever you're using for lightmapping?

32bit OS has 4GB total addressable memory, that includes your GPU RAM , so a 2GB GPU will leave only ~1.8Gb of RAM for OS + programs.
I'll just give everything just in case

AMD Phenonm II X4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz
8 GB ram

windows 7 64 bit

Radeon 5800 Series card
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LITOralis.nMd
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Re: Ram issues

Post by LITOralis.nMd »

Your best bet is to either
1. burn to CD
or
2. INstall on a bootable USB flash drive

a suite of RAM testing utilities run in either a miniDOS or mini Linux UI, and do a bunch of stress tests over night.
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