Increasing available ram to stop crashes?

[Crunch]

I'm pretty new to mods on Soulstorm, and I've been using Titanium Wars, but I've run into a problem where when I beat a campaign mission on a stronghold it crashes. I'm not exactly sure what's causing this but I believe it to be the 2gig ram limit. Is there any way to allow Soulstorm to use more ram on the Steam version? I know you can for retail but I get Error 51 when I try to on Steam, any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, I've been stuck on this for days.

[JSLizzardThe2nd]

I have the exact same issue on Ultimate Apocalypse. I have 16gb of RAM and a 3.2 quad core processor. I know you can change the RAM allocation on non Steam games... Little Help

[[AU] Tabris:DarkPeace]

Most (READ: ALMOST ALL NON-MICROSOFT) Win32 Executables aren't designed to address more than 2GB RAM.

There may be a way to adjust the heapsize of the game, but chances are that there isn't.
Check the README.HTM for ways to reduce the memory that the game uses.

Also, using a WDDM v1.1 or later video driver may help with the amount of memory that the game uses (it should use less, even though it was designed back in the days of AGP Video Cards and GART).

You could try patching the EXE to make it LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE, but this is more likely to corrupt the games code whilst it is actually executing!

This search limits results to the Microsoft.com domain:
- http://www.bing.com/search?q=Win32+2GB+site%3Amicrosoft.com

*** Do NOT click the ad links above, they will most likely install malware/trojan/virus software on your PC that only pretends to resolve the issue(s) in question. ***

[Cheesey Biscuit]

I found this post on moddb which shows you how to increase the ram capabilities of the game to more than 2GB however it doesn't work with the steam version of the game.
- http://www.moddb.com/mods/purgation-of-kaurava/tutorials/increase-soulstorm-ram-handle-limit-only-for-64x-os

I'll probably try download a none-steam version where fingers crossed it will work, as iv already bought it i can do it guilt free :)

[Crunch]

Thanks man

[Gralzeim]

The Stronghold crash thing isn't actually RAM related, it's a common issue mods have with the Soulstorm campaign. It's related to the movie that plays after you beat the stronghold, I believe. Might be fixable by copying the movie files to the mod's directory.

Unfortunately, methods of getting Soulstorm to use more RAM involve changing the .exe, which is something Steam doesn't allow (game won't run, and you'll have to run the verify tool to get it to redownload the .exe).

I'm not sure if there's a way to get it to use more RAM without using a non-Steam copy. Probably not, sadly.

[Crunch]

I really appreciate all the info guys, I still play the game regularly so I might get up on it, I noticed it's not too bad if you turn down all the graphics, save before a match ends and then if it does try again of course.

It's not the best but I really enjoy the game so whatever I guess