On 24/01/2012 13:42, Invisible wrote:
> On 24/01/2012 01:39 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:

>>> Usually this indicates the system paging data back in from disk. Except
>>> that this is impossible. My PC has an insane EIGHT GIGABYTES OF RAM!
>>> (Yes, I know it's excessive, but it was surprisingly cheap.) The entire
>>> game is only 6GB. I don't even *need* a harddrive; THE ENTIRE GAME FITS
>>> IN RAM! Even though it's Crysis! Amazing, but true. So... WTF is pausing
>>> it?!
>>
>> Win32 apps can only use 2GB of memory (three with OS tweaking). Having
>> 8GB only means it shouldn't swap the game out to run an OS function
>> because something triggered an interupt.
>
> I'm actually running a 64-bit edition of Windows. However, I would
> assume that Crysis is a 32-bit application, so I guess your assessment
> stands.

On further reflection... Crysis can use only 2GB of RAM, but surely the 
OS can use all that cavernous space to cache disk files?

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