• Maxon Cinema 4D

  “Out of Memory” on Windows 32bit with 4gb Ram

  Posted by David Wiffen on July 23, 2007 at 2:36 pm

  Hi there,
  I am runnings Windows XP 32bit on a Intel Quad 2.4, 256mb Geforce and 4 gig DDR2 ram. Cinema 4d V10.
  I have a simple scene with a big map of the UK, 4000×4000 polygons wide with 3-4 essential 4096×4096 textures layered on it.
  When I come to render I get the classic “Out of Memory” error. Our G5 macs with 4gb Ram have no problems rendering the scene.

  I’ve had this same error with different projects, so need to get it sorted.

  I was just wondering what my options are with windows?

  Should I upgrade to windows 64bit? I’ve seen tutorials for Windows to allow programs to utilize more than 2gb but it looks risky.

  Anyone out there who can point me in the right direction?

  Many thanks,
  Dave

  David Wiffen replied 19 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  July 23, 2007 at 10:55 pm

  First thing I’d try is the boot.ini trick to get Windows to recognize 3GB ram. It’s not really dangerous — you can put in a line that let’s you select whether you want to enable the switch at startup, so if there is some problem you can start normally.

  It looks like this:
  [operating systems]
  multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
  multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional 3GB” /fastdetect 3 GB

  Otherwise Win64 is certainly an option. The only downside is that plugins have to be compiled for it, and many of them haven’t been.
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  David Wiffen

  July 24, 2007 at 10:28 am

  Many thanks for your reply.

  I decided to have a bash at the boot.ini file. The code you supplied booted ok but didn’t seem to open up the ram to 3gb. I did a bit of digging and found this code:

  [boot loader]
  timeout=30
  default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
  [operating systems]
  multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
  multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional 3GB” /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /3GB

  This seemed to work for me, AE and C4D now working into 3gb and no more “out of memory” problems.

  Many thanks for you help, sent me in the correct direction.
  Cheers.

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