2gig of Ram?

marcbon31 · July 12th, 2008

Hi guys I always find some help here...
I had been tryng to find any post related to xp64 and 4 gigs of ram but with no luck, im rendering and my computer and it is using nearly all the prossesor power...but never more than 2 gigs in the ram department.. is a dual core with prosesor 2.6MHz with four gigs of ram.. windows xp64..and Im running max and vray 32bits.. the task bar shows all the ram but is not using it...Why?
thanks for any advise...

SandmanNinja · July 12th, 2008

It will only use the ram if it needs to.

A CPU-intensive scene is not neccessisarily a memory-intensive scene.

BUT - ram is (currently) cheap and it's better to have it than not, eh?

I have an idea that if you started rendering an animation sequence of a 4+ million poly scene with 36 lights, with shadows and reactor moving 50+ trees, that your ram usage would go up.

SgWRX · July 12th, 2008

you mentioned max and vray 32bits. could it just not be addressing more than the 2gb b/c they are 32bit? oh - maybe not because you can address up to 3gb on xp 32bit machine?

Ky Lane · July 12th, 2008

While this thread attracts those in the know.. can anyone explain to me how my 32bit Vista installation see's all 4Gb of my Ram?

SandmanNinja · July 12th, 2008

Because it's Vista and it's "rounding up"?

Seriously, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to 'round up', to avoid questions from thousands of people.

And it's true - there is 4 gigs of ram in your machine.

[does a Google]

ah ha.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...2125328AAX8DU0

Quote:

For 2 people who say I should see all mem - i heard in latest Vista service pack, it shows amount of physical installed memory, not amount of available.

WAcky · July 12th, 2008

because its vista and not XP...

Ky Lane · July 13th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by SandmanNinja

Because it's Vista and it's "rounding up"?

Seriously, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to 'round up', to avoid questions from thousands of people.

And it's true - there is 4 gigs of ram in your machine.

[does a Google]

ah ha.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...2125328AAX8DU0

Thats bulk dodgey.

marcbon31 · July 14th, 2008

I am sorry I could not answer before... but my machine is 64bites... the memory shows up but is not been used....????

kippu · July 15th, 2008

why are you using 32 bit max on 64 bit machine and secondly ...try a huge scene with lots of meshes and displacement ,proxies and see if its using up the 4 gig memory

bsm3d · July 20th, 2008

The RAM amount displayed by Windows is direclty from the Bios information.

Eg. If you have 4 GB RAM and Bios only display 3.2 GB, Windows only display 3.2 GB, but if you BIOS display 4 GB, Windows diplay 4 GB, so in 32 mode he only use 3.2 GB RAM maximum, the rest as the motherboard permit is automatically allocated to shared PCI device.

Sometimes with 4 GB on 32bits system you can get more free ram for your applications as system us the upper allocated to shared device (PCI, PCIe, IRQ,...)

SO in 32 Bits system applications is limited to 2 GB per applications ! but you can force application to use more than 2 GB with the Boot switch /3GB (put is in boot.ini at the end of line)

eg. "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Wind ows XP Professional Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB"

I hope that's usefull for you.

Best,
Ben

July 12th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
marcbon31 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: california Posts: 16 Name: marcelo bonifacio	2gig of Ram? Hi guys I always find some help here... I had been tryng to find any post related to xp64 and 4 gigs of ram but with no luck, im rendering and my computer and it is using nearly all the prossesor power...but never more than 2 gigs in the ram department.. is a dual core with prosesor 2.6MHz with four gigs of ram.. windows xp64..and Im running max and vray 32bits.. the task bar shows all the ram but is not using it...Why? thanks for any advise...

July 12th, 2008	#2 (permalink)
SandmanNinja Moderator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Posts: 1,373 Name: Joel Callahan	Re: 2gig of Ram? It will only use the ram if it needs to. A CPU-intensive scene is not neccessisarily a memory-intensive scene. BUT - ram is (currently) cheap and it's better to have it than not, eh? I have an idea that if you started rendering an animation sequence of a 4+ million poly scene with 36 lights, with shadows and reactor moving 50+ trees, that your ram usage would go up. __________________ -SandmanNinja website

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SgWRX Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Green Bay, WI Posts: 193 Name: Steve Gruesen	Re: 2gig of Ram? you mentioned max and vray 32bits. could it just not be addressing more than the 2gb b/c they are 32bit? oh - maybe not because you can address up to 3gb on xp 32bit machine?

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WAcky Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 375 Name: James Burrell	Re: 2gig of Ram? because its vista and not XP... __________________ James Burrell Pixel Constructions

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marcbon31 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: california Posts: 16 Name: marcelo bonifacio	Re: 2gig of Ram? I am sorry I could not answer before... but my machine is 64bites... the memory shows up but is not been used....????

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kippu Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: india Age: 32 Posts: 1,389 Name: maria prem	Re: 2gig of Ram? why are you using 32 bit max on 64 bit machine and secondly ...try a huge scene with lots of meshes and displacement ,proxies and see if its using up the 4 gig memory __________________ architecture visualization services www.renderviz.com

July 20th, 2008	#10 (permalink)
bsm3d Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Namur Posts: 5 Name: Benoit SaintMoulin	Re: 2gig of Ram? The RAM amount displayed by Windows is direclty from the Bios information. Eg. If you have 4 GB RAM and Bios only display 3.2 GB, Windows only display 3.2 GB, but if you BIOS display 4 GB, Windows diplay 4 GB, so in 32 mode he only use 3.2 GB RAM maximum, the rest as the motherboard permit is automatically allocated to shared PCI device. Sometimes with 4 GB on 32bits system you can get more free ram for your applications as system us the upper allocated to shared device (PCI, PCIe, IRQ,...) SO in 32 Bits system applications is limited to 2 GB per applications ! but you can force application to use more than 2 GB with the Boot switch /3GB (put is in boot.ini at the end of line) eg. "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Wind ows XP Professional Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /3GB" I hope that's usefull for you. Best, Ben

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