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JWest
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Reply #26 July 11, 2008 8:45:55 PM
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You may wonder why more resourceintensive games don't crash. They are programmed to take RAM from the videocard instead. That's a workaround which drives up the graphiccard system req a bit.


Nonsense. Videocard memory cannot be directly accessed by the CPU; it has to go through a DMA operation, which takes a rather long time. Also, for any graphically intensive game, videocard memory is too precious to use up main memory for. You don't want to tell your modelers to half their vertex counts just because you want to put some game data into VRAM.
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JWest
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Reply #27 July 12, 2008 7:17:04 AM
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You may wonder why more resourceintensive games don't crash.


These days, the OS is partially responsible for stability. In the case of memory, modern OSes deal with low memory conditions by moving some memory to the hard drive when the memory is full. You may see a considerable slowdown when memory is full, but you shouldn't see a crash. Even when both are full, however, I've noticed that the OS will shut down the offending applications rather than crash the entire system.
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JWest
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Reply #28 July 15, 2008 10:23:41 PM
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I too love my 64 bit system and I've had no issues.

Bear in mind that more and more games / programs will be tailored for it in the future.

For right now, as others have said, you'll not really see a big improvement in speed.

As for your data, why oh WHY would you have it on the same partition as your games and programs?

If you do upgrade then make sure you partition!

My computer has the following partitions:

C - OS and programs
D - Data
G - Games
M - Music
V - Videos

Reinstalling my OS, etc. is a breeze and I don't lose any data.

Good luck.

Cheers.
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