More on System Specs

[md11lm]

Originally Posted by Ericmopar

Well...
I borrowed some DDR 3 1333 meg memory, so I could add two more gigabytes to my RAM. The combined system and simulator still wouldn't use more than 2.7 gigabytes.
The system recognizes it.
I can open a bunch of programs and get it to use closer to 4 gigs, but it still won't use much of the RAM for Railworks.
How are some of you people getting it to use more RAM?

Send us your PC specs, their are some sharp Geeks on this forum that may see what the problem is, my system is quite new, why its works and yours does not, makes absolutely no sense.

Mention BIOS, and other settings so they can evaluate your issues.

Clickity-clack,

Peter

[arizonachris]

Originally Posted by Ericmopar

Well...
I borrowed some DDR 3 1333 meg memory, so I could add two more gigabytes to my RAM. The combined system and simulator still wouldn't use more than 2.7 gigabytes.
The system recognizes it.
I can open a bunch of programs and get it to use closer to 4 gigs, but it still won't use much of the RAM for Railworks.
How are some of you people getting it to use more RAM?

OK, first off, it is never a good idea to mix RAM types. You really need a matched set. Second, if you are running 32 bit Windows, it will never use more than about 3.2Gb of RAM. With 64 bit Windows you can use as much RAM as your motherboard will handle.

RW also has an issue dating back to RW1 where it does not utilize RAM or even the video card properly. There used to be a third party patch out there for RW to use up to 4Gb of RAM but it got pulled. It made a big difference in RW2, but after RW3, it wasn't any effect at all.

[SEASTKING]

So then after all this about system specs. What is the best modern computer or laptop to have for RW3 bearing in mind price etc?

[zm4r]

Originally Posted by Ericmopar

Well...
I borrowed some DDR 3 1333 meg memory, so I could add two more gigabytes to my RAM. The combined system and simulator still wouldn't use more than 2.7 gigabytes.
The system recognizes it.
I can open a bunch of programs and get it to use closer to 4 gigs, but it still won't use much of the RAM for Railworks.
How are some of you people getting it to use more RAM?

Use resource monitor and run Railworks (windowed) and watch standby list. It will grow bigger and bigger untill there's no more available memory left. I'm talking about physical memory here. RW is making the standby list bigger and bigger. Sorry for my bad English.

https://picasaweb.google.com/1165150...54419785604882

My personal conclusion: RW is using the Ram, the OS is taking care of that, but unfortunately on my system it's also using to much the paging file or virtual memory (to slow for loading objects during game play). The question is, is it justified that the standby memory grows and grows, or is there maybe another reason?

[culleydog34]

Originally Posted by SEASTKING

So then after all this about system specs. What is the best modern computer or laptop to have for RW3 bearing in mind price etc?

alot of people are gonna say i am wrong but i would say 800 or more

[Necrosan]

For what it's worth the RailWorksProc2.exe executable (main game) is already enabled to use 2>GB address space. It has been this way since I first purchased TS2012 back in November.

(I've checked with CFF_Explorer)

[Ragnokak]

Originally Posted by Sgorra Bhreac

Would an upgrade to 2.8 or 3.0 Ghz make any difference?

Very much so.

[Ericmopar]

Originally Posted by arizonachris

OK, first off, it is never a good idea to mix RAM types. You really need a matched set. Second, if you are running 32 bit Windows, it will never use more than about 3.2Gb of RAM. With 64 bit Windows you can use as much RAM as your motherboard will handle.

RW also has an issue dating back to RW1 where it does not utilize RAM or even the video card properly. There used to be a third party patch out there for RW to use up to 4Gb of RAM but it got pulled. It made a big difference in RW2, but after RW3, it wasn't any effect at all.

I stated in an earlier post that I have win 7 x64. and the system is recognizing all of it. RW just doesn't want to use it.
The RAM was a matched set. Different brand but same timing, Mhz, etc.
At worst unmatched RAM causes the system to default to the slowest stick on the mother board, but the mother board, sim and other programs and hardware can still use it.

[zm4r]

Originally Posted by zm4r

1. This is why I think RW needs more RAM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrashi...mputer_science)

2. When Hard Faults occur too frequently, the resulting disk reads will decrease system responsiveness, is probably the reason why we need a SSD.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/win...tag=rbxccnbtr1

It looks like enabling the gamer modus with ESS5 was the solution for me to avoid Hard Faults when running TS2012. Instead of a 4 second freeze, it's now reduced to few little ms freezes from time to time.(NEC Acela Express)

Erik

[zm4r]

Additional related info, 'Analyze Wait Chain'. This showed the message 'One or more threads of RailworksProc.exe are waiting to finish network I/O.

https://picasaweb.google.com/1165150...66091893304978

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...1-7a983c8bbb66

Disabling core parking didn't help, but enabling gamer modus (AV) certainly did.

Erik

[zm4r]

So sorry about this, but it looks like the gamer modus didn't help after all.

https://picasaweb.google.com/1165150...82870447078482

Grtz
Erik