How to make GiD use more than 2GB on Windows XP? |
This only works for Microsoft Windows XP, and for GiD version 7.5.x and newer.
In a standard Microsoft Windows machine, each program only can work with 2GBytes of memory, although there is more installed. So if you have a machine with lots of memory, more than 2GB, and running Windows XP, you can enable your system so that a program, if it is able to, sees and uses more than this 2GB of memory. In a Microsoft Windows XP 32bit environment, the program will be able to use upto 3GB of memory, and on a 64bit environment, up to 4GBytes, althought the program is 32bit.
MS Windows XP should be configured by adding the flag /3G to the Boot.ini file. To do this just open the Control panel, click on the System icon, on the Advanced options panel, then press the Configuration button of the Start and recuperation section. In this window click on the Edit button inside the System start section and the Notepad will pop-up with the Boot.ini file opened. In this file there should be a line like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
just add the /3G flag at the end, like:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /3G
Now the file must be saved, and MS Windows restarted
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