Let's begin with the CPU first. It matters if your CPU is 32 bit x86 or 64 bit x64 because this affects what type of operating system you can install. The good news is that almost all modern processors are 64 bit with rare exceptions such as Intel Atom. Just to be safe, here's how to check if your processor is 32 or 64 bit:. Sometimes i used it for windows temp folders auto clears on shutdown , other times i used it as my pagefile for a performance boost to large VST instrument libraries, and if i was working with a large video file i would use the ramdrive as storage to copy the video over to before editing.
Iirc i was using a program called RamDisk by SuperSpeed back then. Worked great but maybe 1 out of 10 bootups the ramdrive would get created too slowly usually fixed with a reboot causing errors with PF and temp folders.
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Posted 18 July - PM. PAE is forced enabled, and installed imdisk and verified the awealloc service is running. Using IMdiskTK. No matter how big or how small the ramdisk is enabled, it takes up the actual working memory under 2. I must run XP due to drivers for several hardware. Any other things I can try? I've also tested Gavotte RAMdisk and got the same result in eventlog.
So, AWE will not help you. Your only alternative is a ramdisk that uses the unmanaged memory. But there is sometimes incompatibilities because some drivers can also use this memory and, of course, the system is not aware of that. Anyhow, ImDisk does not have this kind of feature. Yes, that was what I'm trying to do, making use of the unaddressable memory from GB as RAMdisk for temp and pagefile ideally.
I thought the awealloc will let us get pass that limit for ramdisk, but guess not the case for xp. Too bad. I've seen post from others that they were able to do that with Gavotte ramdisk for xp and make a ramdisk out of memory above 3GB-6GB, so was hoping imdisk will work.
Both didn't work for me. Might give commercial ramdisk a try then. Posted 19 July - AM. It all works flawlessly. But it depends on the hardware one uses and in the way the BIOS gives access to it.
What's your hardware exactly? My crystal ball is out for tunning again, sorry! Thanks for the info, I might try disabling the DEP. I tried both IMdisk and Gavotte and both were having the same error in event log failing to allocate.
Confirmed with Coreinfo. And I just tried the Primo Ramdisk trial and it works! I'll give DEP disabled a try. Posted 20 July - AM. Posted 21 July - PM. Thanks cdob, interesting but may be more than I want to tackle. Thanks dencorso, I'll give it a try.
The key diff with my registry entry right now are that the "Tag" and "group" keys are missing from mine, and the rest of the entries in both sections are the same including UsePAE.
Posted 22 July - AM. Are you sure you're using Rramdisk.
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