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Old 01-20-2011, 07:24 PM
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If you're running that Q9550 @ >3.9gHz 24/7 I can pretty much guarantee you that another 4gb of ram will do your system good. I was lucky to find another set of 4gb of my discontinued G.Skills myself but they had a different heatspreader on them. Luckily the timings, speed and voltage were the same as my old ones so I pulled the trigger. Works like a charm. My experience was a much smoother gameplay and a few FPS extra. Flightsims dig ram IMO. But you have a 2gb graphics card though so you might not get the same increase as me.
Theres no point in having more than 4GB if the game iswritten in 32 Bit... even if your OS is 64 Bit, the Game (or any other 32 Bit aplication) will still be restricted to using a Maximum of 2GB Memory Max.

Hopefully Oleg has made a 32 Bit and 64 Bit version, just like they done with Crysis and FarCry for example.
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Old 01-20-2011, 08:03 PM
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True, but the game isn't the only thing running. I have 55 applications running at one time usually and free memory when gaming is about 600mb. The rest is cached. When I ran 4gb I had almost no free memory, everything was cached.

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Old 01-20-2011, 09:35 PM
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True, but the game isn't the only thing running. I have 55 applications running at one time usually and free memory when gaming is about 600mb. The rest is cached. When I ran 4gb I had almost no free memory, everything was cached.
W7ux64, 65apps.

You probably have some BS running in the background.

I will check on the Berlin map 'tho.
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Old 01-20-2011, 10:01 PM
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Doesn't matter, swiss. You're on 7, not comparable to Vista's resource management, or hogging, at all. But hey, install another 4gb and fly an object rendering intensive mission and see for yourself. That's the only way to know for sure. Whatever you say in this thread, I'm not gonna remove 4gb of ram because I know the differences it made to my system. LOL

Keep on truckin'.
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I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but what are the system specifications?

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Old 01-21-2011, 02:50 PM
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Minimum system requirements are as follows:

Dual 1366 processor motherboard
2x5520 Intel Xeon processors
SLi/Quadfire GTX580/HD6970
16GB 2200mHz RAM
3x32" monitors
1200W Powersupply
Windows 7 Ultimate or better.

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Old 01-21-2011, 06:52 PM
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The system specs are going down as we speak, or staying the same if they were lowered enough to enable another feature.
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Old 01-20-2011, 08:08 PM
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Theres no point in having more than 4GB if the game iswritten in 32 Bit... even if your OS is 64 Bit, the Game (or any other 32 Bit aplication) will still be restricted to using a Maximum of 2GB Memory Max.

Hopefully Oleg has made a 32 Bit and 64 Bit version, just like they done with Crysis and FarCry for example.
Not strictly true

Try this tool here (note: not a mod)

It modifies your Il2FB.exe to allow use of up to 4GB RAM if you have a 64 Bit system, and can do the same for other 32 Bit applications.

I used it myself and it gave a noticeable framerate boost on my Laptop, going from Perfect mode with some stuttering over cities to Perfect mode and smooth over cities, so it seems worth using.

The program creates a backup of your Il2FB.exe but you might want to make a manual backup.
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