4gb Patch

[CaptScarlet]

Have heard several mentions of this userva patch but no idea what it is or what it does! Perhaps the techie talk could be explained please - & not by being refered to a hardware forum

Basically a 32bit system has available 4gb of virtual address space of which 2gb is for a application and 2gb for the OS. This space allocated has nothing to do with physical ram or page file and each application uses its own space . Now if the USERVA setting and the patch everyone is talking about is applied to a application then the amount of virtual address space can be amended ( in the boot.ini file or equivalent depending on OS ) so that the application has more than 2gb but it also means that the OS has less than 2GB of this 4gb virtual address space which can cause other problems such as system instability if too much is taken away. A typical setting for the USERVA might be USERVA=2560 or less.

Now I might have got some of that wrong so those who know more feel free to correct it.

John

[AndyUK]

Does this help? http://www.prophotowiki.com/w/index.php//3GB_Switch. The /userva switch is discussed about half way through.

Andy L

[djt01]

I was referring to the world of UKTS and this forum, rather than anything else. Additionally, it was a turn of phrase rather than to be taken verbatim.

Yes many here should get out more often, maybe if they did the 2GB aware trick wouldn't be needed on their machines, lol.

[djt01]

Perhaps the techie talk could be explained please - & not by being refered to a hardware forum

Are you afraid to learn something? There's a lot that the majority of UKTrainsim visitors could pick up from in a hardware forum and most of the discussions and mis-conceptions like in this thread wouldn't even come up.

[Retro]

Just a question. Sorry if it has already been answered. Will Steam wipe this out when it updates Railworks as I usually always play in online mode.
Kind regards James.

Hi James, if you do a verify cache it probably will and until RSC amend the file themselves then it will be overwritten and you would need to reapply it.

John

Thanks John much appreciated.
Kind regards James.

[black8]

Perhaps the techie talk could be explained please - & not by being refered to a hardware forum

Are you afraid to learn something? There's a lot that the majority of UKTrainsim visitors could pick up from in a hardware forum and most of the discussions and mis-conceptions like in this thread wouldn't even come up.

dj, why don't you stop smart-answering everybody's questions and stay in the hardware forums yourself. This is VERY annoying! I feel one of the moderators should do something about this.

[djt01]

dj, why don't you stop smart-answering everybody's questions and stay in the hardware forums yourself. This is VERY annoying! I feel one of the moderators should do something about this.

Oops I forgot many here don't like being told what they don't want to hear. Quick put the blinders back on, lol.

[FoggyMorning]

Perhaps the techie talk could be explained please - & not by being refered to a hardware forum

Are you afraid to learn something? There's a lot that the majority of UKTrainsim visitors could pick up from in a hardware forum and most of the discussions and mis-conceptions like in this thread wouldn't even come up.

Learning things is fine. I would prefer to learn things in plain English rather than technobabble though

[black8]

dj, why don't you stop smart-answering everybody's questions and stay in the hardware forums yourself. This is VERY annoying! I feel one of the moderators should do something about this.

Oops I forgot many here don't like being told what they don't want to hear. Quick put the blinders back on, lol.

...and another smart-babble response..will it ever stop

[styckx]

Black8, just report posts you feel are out of line and let a mod deal with addressing the person directly. You may find you might end up breaking a rule in the process and or enabling the situation to escalate further by addressing it yourself.

Bill

[spoonmcduff]

can someone tell me where to find RailworksProc2.exe . I need that patch bad! Spent ages doing a scenario and only had to put in a few static trains in Old Oak yard and "Ping,something bad....." (and yep I forgot to save as I went along).aaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh!

[markpullinger]

Hi, it should be in the main railworks folder - if you still only have railworks processor rather than 2, you need to let steam update your railworks & then railprocessor should turn into railprocessor2

[djt01]

Learning things is fine. I would prefer to learn things in plain English rather than technobabble though

I can guarantee that you'll find information that is in “plain English rather than technobabble” in many of those sites. Just be ware that many of them don't tolerate misconceptions being stated as fact and moderators don't lock threads when someone's feelings are hurt.

[bab7000]

Amazing

[ashgray]

djt01 - you have a PM.

Ash