[Wine] Any issues with >=4GB ram installed?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 10 20:38:32 CDT 2010


DaVince wrote:
> jeffz wrote:
>   
>> James_Huk wrote:
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>>> I newer experienced problem on my PC with 4 GB of RAM, I used 32-bit PAE-enabled kernel (so it could map up to 64 GB of ram) - no problems with wine or anything else.
>>>
>>> P.S
>>> It is funny that in order to use 4GB of memory, or more - you must have 64-bit Windows, event thou on Linux, you can easily use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit kernel ;]
>>>       
>> What's funny?  These are license restrictions.   See here http://www.geoffchappell.com/viewer.htm?doc=notes/windows/license/memory.htm
>>     
>
> Say what you want, but there being no technical restrictions just makes the whole deal weirder. And more obvious they'd really like people to just switch to a newer version of Windows, of course.
>
>   
No, they want you to switch to a 64 bit version.  Even Windows XP had 
this.  The problem is that they did not want to license a memory 
extender that they had no control over...(Silly Microsoft.)

James McKenzie




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