How do you make the game run on more memory?

[1600 frogs]

(My Computer runs 8GB but I only want to use 7GB)I want the game to run the best it can, by giving it more power and I know the launch settings command "
-high -maxMem=7000 -malloc=system -force-feature-level-11-0 -winx" but I noticed that there is a mod called 4GB Fallout New Vegas that is rather popular. I would prefer to use 7GB instead of 4, but the fact that the mod exists makes me wonder if the launch settings work properly on New Vegas. Any answers?

[Psychotron77]

As far as i know / understood. The standard New Vegas uses 2Gb max. The mod is a executable that ups this to 4Gb. So 4Gb is the new max.
Even if we have more available FNV doesnt recognise it or uses it.

[alien]

the only way to make it run on 7gb is to set the pagefile to 7gb. then it uses your harddrive as virtual memory without the 32bit 3.5gb address limit.

[Incunabulum]

You get the source code, rewrite it to be 64 bit, then recompile the executable.

Its a 32 bit app - it is physically impossible for it to acces any more than 4 GB.

The vanilla executable does not have the Large Address Aware flag set so it will only access *2GB* - to leave room for the OS and other programs.

4GB NV sets that flag so that it will be able to access the full 4GB.

Of course there's a problem with the engine that won't let it actually get the full 4 - slightly over 3 is the best you'll get.

And, before you ask, the reason these older games were set at 2Gb is at the time most OS' were still 32 bit and only had 4GB of memory total - this is to prevent the game from crashing your whole computer. Oh, and its a mandatory thing for 360/PS3 apps to be limited to 2 GB.

Not long after FO3 was released the major switch to 64 bit for PC happened.

[SolitaryAngel]

32 bit windows can only see 3.73 gb RAM 64 bit sees a hell of a lot more.

[TrafficCone00]

Would it be possible to have a Plugin that converts the game to 64 bit? I'm not too smart on computers, I only know the lingo and not much about how all the aspects interact. We talkin' paid mod or would it require entirely recoding the game from the ground up?

P.S I know this thread has long since been dead.

[Johnny Casey]

Originally posted by moparguy00:

P.S I know this thread has long since been dead.

Wouldn't it better if you had just made your own thread, and linked this thread as a reference instead of willingly trying to necro-post this?

You didn't have to do this, and even you know it, yet, you've done it. Why?

[BoiledInPilk]

Originally posted by moparguy00:

Would it be possible to have a Plugin that converts the game to 64 bit? I'm not too smart on computers, I only know the lingo and not much about how all the aspects interact. We talkin' paid mod or would it require entirely recoding the game from the ground up?

P.S I know this thread has long since been dead.

If it was doable without rebuilding the entire game it would have been done so by now, considering the lengths modders already go.

[Unholymess]

Originally posted by Johnny Casey:

Originally posted by moparguy00:

P.S I know this thread has long since been dead.

Wouldn't it better if you had just made your own thread, and linked this thread as a reference instead of willingly trying to necro-post this?

You didn't have to do this, and even you know it, yet, you've done it. Why?

Oh calm down princess, making a new post would have been needless clutter. I swear this ridiculous anti necro ♥♥♥♥ is just learned behaviour that people like you engage in without even knowing why.
Think for yourself, stop just regurgitating ideas and opinions you saw other people use online.