I don't understand the fundamentalist approach some guys have. If it is known that a certain fix will ONLY change one file (as in the case of the 4G patch) and you BACK UP that file and you KNOW that other bona fide users have solved some OOM related problems using it, what's to stop anyone from trying it out?

 

It can't break anything!

 

We all know that some FS9 addons are memory intensive, so why not try out the patch unless you already have installed all the addons you'll ever want and have no lags, stutters or freezes whatsoever?

 

This patch is completely harmless if you back up your fs9.exe!

 

Sascha

+1 Sascha,

It also clearly states on the patch download page that the patch is for 32 bit programs running on 64 bit systems - if you don't have x64 Windows it won't work. I have Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and without that patch with FS9 running, only 1.65gb ram was in use (out of 6gb available) - with the patch, 2.7gb ram is in use with FS9 running. This visibly improves texture load times but I suspect most improvements are to invisible processes such as physics calculations.

I believe that FS prefers virtual memory to physical memory anyway, like Adobe Photoshop, so a large empty hard drive with plenty of room for page file expansion is best. This is what the out of memory message is referring to - no disk space for the page file to expand into. You can span the page file over multiple disks of course, but I've never attempted that, I try to keep at least 60gb free space on my HD and have not had an OOM crash since.