4GB Patch: An apparent solution to High Texture Detail crashes.

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(This is an exact repost of a now-deleted Discussion thread posted in the Troubleshooting section on 08/27/2021, also typed up by myself. It has been moved to here so new players will notice it more easily.)

Are you sick and tired of the High Texture Detail crash on map changes, as well as the R6025 Pure Virtual Function call to some extent?

If so, Kudegra recently rediscovered the 4GB Patch Tool, a handy piece of software that allows one to expand the amount of system RAM the game detects from 2GB to 4GB by making it Large Address Aware, much as Source 2009 and later builds are by default. In testing, this was found to eliminate the High Texture Detail crash regardless of map on patched clients.

To apply it yourself, download it from here: https://ntcore.com/?page_id=371

Extract the tool from its .ZIP container using either Windows's right-click context menu and Extract All, 7-Zip, WinRAR, or otherwise to a preferred directory.

After this, open the extracted 4gb_patch.exe tool, and navigate to Steam\steamapps\common\NEOTOKYO\hl2.exe inside the tool. Click on the executable, and if done correctly, the tool should report it as successfully patched.
(DO NOT DO THIS STEP WHILE ANY GAMES ARE RUNNING. AT ALL.)

To check if the executable works as intended, open the game, and open the Developer Console Window. After that, go to Options, Video, and Advanced. If done correctly, the game will report available system RAM as 4095MB, instead of the usual 2047MB for this version of the Source engine (Source 2006).

Hopefully it will help you much as it did many other users.

[Historische Welsdarstellung]

My game reports 4095MB even without even having downloaded this patch, why is that?

[Axø]

when a game gets a 4095mb patch even if is a old game that no get updates anymore is just steam update restributable packs (Microsoft Visual C++[vcredist 2005,2009,2013, 5, 17 19,etc], .NET, DirectX 9,11,12, OpenAL, XNA, and PhysX.) https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/common_redist

[Chris]

thank u

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Originally posted by Consumentenelektronica van Eindh:

My game reports 4095MB even without even having downloaded this patch, why is that?

Were you checking the game's file size, or instead the RAM detection under Options, Video, Advanced Video, and opening the dev console afterwards?

[Historische Welsdarstellung]

The latter. Console tells me "4095 MB of system RAM".

[Knaupst]

super auto