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Originally Posted by Feuerfalke
No gaming software uses your full RAM.
If at all, it's reserved half of it unless you enable a 3GB-Switch or assign more memory by other means. However, that does not necessarily increase performance.
In general, Windows offers 2 GB to any application, no matter if you have 4 or 64 GB of memory installed.
Only exception is a 64bit.exe running on a 64bit OS. In this case, it CAN use more RAM. But again, this will not increase overall performance. If you notice a difference, it's by improved loading times and less texture-loading while inflight.
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Wrong, dont know why you are on a disinformation crusade tonight. Most people are running it on win7 64bit which allows the OS to give 4gb of ram to a 32bit app and more to a 64bit app. Basically your comment seems to be stating a norm, when infact that is not the norm anymore. So 64bit OS is not the exception.
Also when you talk about the "notice a differance" with 64bit apps it makes you look rediculous, ram is ram - you either have enough to load the rescources or you dont. Lack of ram causes paging of the harddrive, if that has to happen it will slow the software down, and the program does not discriminate between many of the rescources needed, also texture loading is one of the most intensive and "lag producing" pages in a game. So you are contradicting yourself.