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[phoenix1963]

Originally Posted by slm

If you have a 64 bit OS, you should see clearly better performance with 8GB RAM than with 32 bit OS.

Not for a 32-bit game, you won't. It's arithmetic!
The best you get is an extra ~0.5GB (or maybe a bit more, possibly up to 1GB http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx ) because Win64 will not need the that space reserved by Win32. Plus all the other processes are memory allocated under Win64, so don't count towards the 32 bit limit.
You're running under a Win32 emulator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64 , so the 32-bit limit is still there.

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