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64 or 32-Bit Version
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Posted October 13 2014 - 03:41 PM
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Posted October 13 2014 - 03:58 PM
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Posted October 13 2014 - 03:59 PM
This is how you find if your os is 64 bit or not:
 
					
					Edited by shosca, October 13 2014 - 04:00 PM.
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Posted October 13 2014 - 04:12 PM

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Posted October 13 2014 - 05:13 PM
 
					
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Posted October 13 2014 - 05:50 PM
 SatelliteJack, on October 13 2014 - 04:12 PM, said:
SatelliteJack, on October 13 2014 - 04:12 PM, said:
A memory leak is when a program doesn't clean up deallocated memory and reuse it correctly. Most memory leaks just grow and grow until it uses all available memory, Hawken does not suffer from that.
One of the issues that people don't understand is that every process in a 32 bit operating system, can only allocate a maximum of 2 gigabytes of memory space, even though the computer may have more memory available to it. The maximum total amount of memory in a 32 bit system is 4 gigs, but only 3 of that is useable, because the last gigabyte of it is reserved for hardware address mapping.
In a 64-bit OS all 32 bit processes can allocate 2 gigs of memory by default and if the program was compiled/linked with a special flag ( /LARGEADDRESSAWARE) it can allocate a maximum of 4 gigs of memory space, all of which is completely useable.
So yes, Hawken loves to eat up 2 gigs of memory, but not because of a memory leak. [HWK]Tj said it once that the memory wasn't firmly under budget.
To the OP, for best results use a 64-bit OS, if and only if you have a 64-bit processor to begin with, and get as much memory as you can afford. 4 gigs would be the minimum, 8 acceptable, 16 good, and 32 or higher overkill.
Edited by SS396, October 13 2014 - 05:51 PM.
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Posted October 13 2014 - 06:02 PM

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Posted October 14 2014 - 06:42 AM
Edited by shosca, October 14 2014 - 06:42 AM.
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Posted October 14 2014 - 07:18 AM
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#11
Posted October 14 2014 - 09:29 PM
About choosing Windows, I recommend for sure using a 64 bit version, that gives you more options about expanding the RAM memory, once today's computers almost always come with 4 GB, which is the limit of 32-bit Windows (and any other operating system).
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