tparker, please disregard personal reply - gmail did something stupid again<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Jim Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:volunteer.jim@gmail.com">volunteer.jim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:17 AM, tparker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tparker@etherstorm.net" target="_blank">tparker@etherstorm.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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When playing WoW through Wine (1.3.6) my video settings are limited because some of them require "2G or more CPU memory". Another computer in the house can play in Windows with those settings maxed out on a graphics card that only has 1G built in, so the setting doesn't mean graphics memory. My computer has 5G of ram (32 bit PAE kernel) so it's not that. So what is CPU memory and how do I tell if I really don't have enough or if there is a problem with the game detecting it properly through wine?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br><br></div>My first thought was the different kinds of CPU cache memory, but their totals are much less than 2GB. An article on Wikipedia makes a clear distinction between cache and system RAM.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache</a><br>
<br>I believe the following to be valid:<br> Wine is a 32 bit program<br> WoW is a 32 bit program<br> Very broadly speaking, 32 bit only deals with a max of aprox. 3.2 GB of system RAM<br> I have seen discussions (here and/or WoW) that suggests limiting what Wine "sees" to 3 GB of system RAM<br>
Anything over 3GB is wasted and may introduce a fubar factor<br> Whatever your hardware can do may not be what particular software can/can't do<br> The Windoze comp may be sharing system RAM with the video card (check BIOS for that)<br>
WoW has raised the graphics bar again, Shader 4 support is now required to use some settings at max<br> MS Direct junk uses hardware differently than OpenGL<br><br><br>That's the closest I could get to "CPU memory".<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Jim <br></div></div><br>