Memory - RAM - I mean...

 

 

This morning I had my 1st X-Plane10 crash :-( Well, I think I was asking for it, specially after yesterday having posted on a thread here at the forum that I never had a CTD running X-Plane10 on either WinXP-32bit or Win7-64bit...

 

I downloaded and placed in the Custom Scenery folder the recently released (and gorgeous) LSZA Lugano 10.05 by Pargentino. And... I already had in that folder the OSM folder for Switzerland.

 

When I started X-Plane10 and chose LSZA, after loading a popup window soon told me X-Plane was using to much RAM and further scenery download would stop. It also recommended adjusting my display settings... Well, as the FPS didn't look bad, I took off with the Baron58 and noticed a rather cloudy and low visibility situation, but what I was able to see looked amazing, with those typical Swiss houses allover the landscape... Went to the Environment/Weather menu and set CAVOK... CADABUM!!!!! Before X-Plane10 freezed I was still able to see some strange texture grids where previously were dense/overcast clouds...

 

The idea then came to my mind of how it'll be when the 64 bit version get's available. We know it will allow for better rendering of dense scenery areas, and most certainly much more features, but, will the 8GB I presently have be sufficient?

 

How much could I have (given the limitations on Windows7 Home 64-bit). How much do I really need?

 

Well, theoretically a 64 bit processor could address 2^64 bytes, but, my i5-2500 is no such thing and...apparently Linux limits it's address space to 128 TB while Windows 7 Starter is limited to 2GB, Home Basic to 8, Home Premium to 16, and Professional and above are 192GB.

 

Any ideas on this one?

If this was your first crash, I wouldn't worry. If it now uses 3,5GB and runs out of memory, I think XPX will just do fine once it can use 5-6GB, and then you still have enough ram left to keep your system going. That's all speculation though as no one has used a 64 Bit X-Plane yet....