Tool to make PR 32 bit executable use more than 3GB of RAM

[Valmont]

Hello fellow PR fans

I just wanted to share with you a little tool I found a while ago.

What it does: It basically patches any executable to be able to use more than 3GB of RAM (That was a limitation with legacy 32bit executables).

Short Story: I found this handy tool when trying to play a masive warhammer mod made for the old medieval 2 total war engine. Since the mod was so huge it made the game unstable to the devs found that that patching the executable with this tool fixed the crashes and increased the FPS because more ram was being effectively used.

Since then I have used this patch on basically all my "old games" executables.

In my own mod, which was beginning to show instability because of its scale, it fixed the crashes in most cases and increased my FPS from 50 to 107.

PS: In order to see the benefits you need 4GB of RAM or for optimal results 8GBs.

Here is the download link:

NTCore's Homepage

I know that PR is already pushing the limits of the engine. Perhaps this will make the game more stable allowing the Devs to go even crazier with features and textures cast out in favor of stability.

PS2: I hope someone can do some benchmarks and confirm if this is helping indeed.

Cheers

[Mineral]

I asked around, and yeah this in no will would work for PR's executables. And for anyone trying, remember to make backups !

[AlonTavor]

This is misleading and wrong.

32bit processes on 64bit systems may use up to almost 4GB. This is not a problem with PR.

Edit: Just checked what the hell is he talking about, and that flag is already set.

[Valmont]

This is misleading and wrong.

32bit processes on 64bit systems may use up to almost 4GB. This is not a problem with PR.

Edit: Just checked what the hell is he talking about, and that flag is already set.

It is good to know that PR does not need the patch. Thanks

But I didn't mean to mislead, it certainly helps in many executables that do not have that flag set.

PS: Is the flag set something that the PR Devs did or was it already on the default BF2.exe (It might still help with BF2 and its other mods) .

[PLODDITHANLEY]

I read this with interest as since changing the screen and resolution from 760 to 1080 on an old vista 32 bit 4GB computer it ctds on map load. I have another 64bit 4GB machine and that's ok. This exact computer was fine before the only change was a new 1080 monitor.

I have heard that if using a discreet graphics card the VRAM size removes some of the RAM anyone enlighten me? Using an old 6870 1GB

[PatrickLA_CA]

I think what you're trying to do is similar to an old thread that helped me with my old computer, but I haven't had any issues on the new one so there was never a need to do this: https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f358-s ... ost1595177