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#1 ION_8_11

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Posted October 13 2014 - 03:41 PM

Im new in this game and i want to know how to find out if I have a 16, 32 or 64 Bits version and how to change it 2 the 64 or in case of 16 (if it exists) to 32.

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Posted October 13 2014 - 03:58 PM

I believe Hawken is 32-bit only.
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Posted October 13 2014 - 03:59 PM

Hawken is 32 bit only.


This is how you find if your os is 64 bit or not:

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Posted October 13 2014 - 04:12 PM

When I started I had 32 bit. This game made me go 64. It may be 32 bit only, but last I saw it, it has a horrible memory leak, and I couldn't go more than two rounds without the game giving me an "Out of Memory!" error.

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Posted October 13 2014 - 05:13 PM

yup. what jack sed. it's written 32bit, but will only fly on a 64bit OS. :(

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Posted October 13 2014 - 05:50 PM

View PostSatelliteJack, on October 13 2014 - 04:12 PM, said:

When I started I had 32 bit. This game made me go 64. It may be 32 bit only, but last I saw it, it has a horrible memory leak, and I couldn't go more than two rounds without the game giving me an "Out of Memory!" error.

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.

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Posted October 13 2014 - 06:02 PM

download more ram if you need it

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Posted October 13 2014 - 09:34 PM

http://www.downloadmoreram.com/

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Posted October 14 2014 - 06:42 AM

I ran out of the internet, can you fax me some ram instead?

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Posted October 14 2014 - 07:18 AM

Unless you have 16gig RAM installed, Win7 sees it all, but won't let you use more than 12gig total. I can't google a fix for this, and M$ response is "Yes, this happens."  ???
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Posted October 14 2014 - 09:29 PM

Hawken is 32-bit only.
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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