Vista 32 bit and 8gig ram

d0nd3r

Hello all,

I just bought me a new PC with 8 gig ram, and using Vista Ultimate 32
bit.

There is a problem, cause it only shows me 3gig ... is there a way to
boost this up ?

I have seen on a forum, that someone putted a change on his msconfig,
but were can i find this trick, step to step.

Greetings don.


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d0od

if you want to be able to "use" the full 8gig you need to have a 64bit
version of VIsta, as 32 bit can only use around 3.5gb max,


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d0nd3r

yeah had seen that

I found something to "boost it a bit, but its really a problem for the
system.
It will be unstable, so i know what to do.

Hmm well 64 bit is a problem, cause lots of game are 32 bit.

I love to play games, so ill have to wait till they ganna make game for
64 bit.

Greetings d0n


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d0nd3r;737347 Wrote:
> yeah had seen that
>
> I found something to "boost it a bit, but its really a problem for the
> system.
> It will be unstable, so i know what to do.
>
> Hmm well 64 bit is a problem, cause lots of game are 32 bit.
>
> I love to play games, so ill have to wait till they ganna make game for
> 64 bit.
>
> Greetings d0n

you could always dual boot with vista 64 as well, if you use anything
that would take advantage of the whole 8gigs - video editing, photoshop
etc


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"d0nd3r" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> yeah had seen that
>
> I found something to "boost it a bit, but its really a problem for the
> system.
> It will be unstable, so i know what to do.
>
> Hmm well 64 bit is a problem, cause lots of game are 32 bit.
>
> I love to play games, so ill have to wait till they ganna make game for
> 64 bit.

64-bit Windows is compatible with 32-bit applications.

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John Barnett MVP

You need the 64 Bit version of Windows to utilise anything over 4GB RAM. The
32 Bit windows Vista can only use a maximum of 4GB and then, in most cases,
it will only register 3.5GB

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"d0nd3r" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello all,
>
> I just bought me a new PC with 8 gig ram, and using Vista Ultimate 32
> bit.
>
> There is a problem, cause it only shows me 3gig ... is there a way to
> boost this up ?
>
> I have seen on a forum, that someone putted a change on his msconfig,
> but were can i find this trick, step to step.
>
> Greetings don.
>
>
> --
> d0nd3r

Brian C

> Hmm well 64 bit is a problem, cause lots of game are 32 bit.

All my 32-bit applications (including games) work fine on my 64-bit Vista
Ultimate.

Ian D

"Brian C" <notavalidemail@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:RridnYF5SIY2jdXVnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@giganews.com ...
>> Hmm well 64 bit is a problem, cause lots of game are 32 bit.
>
> All my 32-bit applications (including games) work fine on my 64-bit Vista
> Ultimate.
>
Vista 64 Bit also works with DOS apps and games if you use DosBox.

Paul Smith

"d0nd3r" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> I just bought me a new PC with 8 gig ram, and using Vista Ultimate 32
> bit.
>
> There is a problem, cause it only shows me 3gig ... is there a way to
> boost this up ?
>
> I have seen on a forum, that someone putted a change on his msconfig,
> but were can i find this trick, step to step.

Like others have said, a 32-bit OS can only address 4GB, by the time other
hardware is taken into account it'll be less than that. Detailed explantion
up here:
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/2008/0...ng-more-than-4

If you've got the retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate, one of the discs
in the case will be the 64-bit version. So you could at least install it to
try it out and make sure everything is working for you.

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Jean

Hi... I.m a gamer too and using Vista Home Premium x64 with no problem at
all. All games play perfectly.

Even so game like crysis are 64 bits.




"d0nd3r" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:7a35e8dca6bca34da0833a21dcca251c@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> yeah had seen that
>
> I found something to "boost it a bit, but its really a problem for the
> system.
> It will be unstable, so i know what to do.
>
> Hmm well 64 bit is a problem, cause lots of game are 32 bit.
>
> I love to play games, so ill have to wait till they ganna make game for
> 64 bit.
>
> Greetings d0n
>
>
> --
> d0nd3r