Friday 2010-10-29 Dev. update and Discussion

[mazex]

Originally Posted by F19_lacrits

Il2 supports DX8, but most of the development went into OGL support.. That's why nvidia cards run better with IL2 than AMD/ATI cards.
The RAM restriction of 32-bit Windows is 4GB. Then peripheral devices like graphic card, controllers etc. hog some RAM. That's why you won't get full 4GB available when Windows is launched. On average you get a little over 3 to 3.5GB available in Windows.

I don't get where all people get this idea that a 32-bit windows OS can only use 4Gb of memory. Ever heard of PAE? The limit for 32-bit Windows 2003 Server Datacenter Edition is 128Gb!

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...AE/PAEdrv.mspx

[undercut]

Originally Posted by mazex

I don't get where all people get this idea that a 32-bit windows OS can only use 4Gb of memory. Ever heard of PAE? The limit for 32-bit Windows 2003 Server Datacenter Edition is 128Gb!

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...AE/PAEdrv.mspx

Ok but.. that OS is for servers... I don't think many people use that type of OS for gaming.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by undercut

Ok but.. that OS is for servers... I don't think many people use that type of OS for gaming.

There are no problem at all using Windows 2003 for gaming... I've played a lot of games on 2003 server and I've recently had many good games of RoF on a Windwos 2008R2 Server (64-bit though as there are no 32-bit editions of 2008R2). Naturally my prime gaming rig is a window 7 64-bit but now we are discussing theory here

[undercut]

Originally Posted by mazex

There are no problem at all using Windows 2003 for gaming... I've played a lot of games on 2003 server and I've recently had many good games of RoF on a Windwos 2008R2 Server (64-bit though as there are no 32-bit editions of 2008R2). Naturally my prime gaming rig is a window 7 64-bit but now we are discussing theory here

Interesting. I'll have to educate myself on this operating system. Does this OS require a specific CPU or MoBo or special kind of RAM to use more than 3.5 gb?