Memory Allocation for After Efects

[Heather Memmel]

You can’t XP only allows 2 gigs of ram per app.

[Tomogomo]

NO, actually You can, i have same problem with mine XP 64bit on Opterons and 4 Gig of Ram – only 3Gigs appear, but recently i ve read that there is a solution somewhere in microsoft website…but still XP 64 bit supports more than that….
Anybody have a simple explanation?

quite frustrating

[John Larsen]

See if you can make anything out of this site, Let me know if you can figure this out https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx

John Larsen
OxHerd Productions Inc.

[Mike Smith]

To allow system access to RAM above 2 Gig on a standard Windows XP machine you need to
change a setting in the boot.ini file, called “setting the 3Gb switch”. Details follow.

AE is one of the few apps as yet which can take advantage of the extended memory space, of up to 3Gb. There are risks attached in doing this: the virtual address space available to Windows is reduced, which it’s reported can have an impact if you are running very large disc arrays and/or lots of high-resolution screen display.

For more than 3Gb of memory, you really need a 64bit version of Windows XP, which you will probably want dedicated to your video tasks – I believe a

The PAE and AWE technologies were ways to extend 32-hit operating system with a 36-bit virtual address space and supporting hardware registers – designed for high-performance SQl Server systems. PAE / AWE will not be carried forward into the 64-bit generations of Windows, which are not too far away …

https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx
https://www.gehrytechnologies.com/catia/catia/catia_windows_large_memory.htm

Proceed with caution!