OT: Need Vista help suggestions

[Romulus68]

I found a way to make the game play smoother in Vista 64bit.

Play in Windowed mode. It seems to run a thousand times better. Not sure why, but it does.

[Fyron]

Romulus68 said:
Play in Windowed mode. It seems to run a thousand times better. Not sure why, but it does.

Resolution explains a great deal.

AgentZero said:
RAM stuff

Physical memory and address space are different beasts, and it all gets pretty confusing. A lot of the limits have to do with MS' marketing decisions, as per the charts here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...78(VS.85).aspx

Randallw said:
I read it was because it could only count the number of bits of ram up to a power of 32.

That's only true, at the physical hardware layer, if PAE is not enabled. Its been around for a decade or so, and it allows memory addressing to use 36 bits instead of 32. Whether or not specific operating systems use it properly is purely up to marketing. The non-server versions of Win32 do not normally support PAE, even though there is no technical reason why every version of Windows 2000, XP and Vista 32 bit can't support 64 GB physical RAM.