The systems with more video card memory may see even less. In my case, only 3.25GB is shown by the Windows. The 4th GB is just wasted because most part of that space is already taken. One last note, unless the price difference between the 3GB and 4GB is quite small, keeping the system at 3GB might be the most economic setup for anyone running the 32-bit Windows. The following article is also a good read on this issue. It is like plugging a toaster designed for 120v into a 220v outlet. Well, most of programs weren't designed or tested with the 3GB memory space in mind. Keeping each process in its 2GB space is a very safe way to run 32-bit Windows. It only changed the amount memory each process can use. Removing theģGB switch did not change the total amount memory seen by the Windows. It ran faster and never displayed any "drawing failed" message.ģGB switch broke a lot of the applications and caused my system to become unstable. I ran a quick test with the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer displaying full resolution 5D images in the slideshow mode. You do not want them."ģGB switch and rebooted the machine. PAE Windows boot.ini switches, too, because they often come up when people are talking about 4Gb-plus Windows PCs. IrfanView produced a bunch of corrupted images when used to resize 12.8MP photos down to 2000x2000 max.Īt that point, I was desperate and about to take out the additional 2GB RAM until I saw this article. Sometimes, part of the CS3 screen is not refreshed. PhotoShop CS3 at times seemed to run much slower than non-3GB aware CS even with more memory allocated to it. When using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer doing the slideshow on the 30" monitor, not only it ran slower, the message "drawing failed" would also be displayed if I tried to advance the photos quickly. Then when Firefox crashed, it caused the system to reboot. First Firefox 2.0.0.7 started crashing when left running overnight with my photo gallery site displayed.
It has been running flawlessly until the addition of the two more GB memory and the The video card is an Nvidia based ASUS EN7600GS SILENT/HTD with 256MB memory. The system is based on Intel DG965WH MB and DDR2 800 memory. At the same time, I installed PhotoShop CS3 (which was the main reason I bought additional memory) and added the Recently, I added two more GB memory to my home built WinXP Pro machine to bring the total memory to 4GB. I can only speak from my experiences with the 32-bit Windows XP Pro + SP2.
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