Windows - fake your amount of RAM?

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) General Bar Sport
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Hi there,
I have a small problem.. i recently upgraded my computer and have now 4GB Ram, although this is generally a good thing it is a problem with some of my games i play from time to time. Some ATARI games simply crash if you have more than 3GB installed. Does someone here know if it is possible to make a game see a different amount of ram than the one actually installed? Using msconfig to set the Ram to 3GB works, yet this needs two restarts only to run a game, not my favorite way..

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Run your games in a virtual machine?

There are proprietary and open source solutions available.

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hm, ok, are there virtual machines that bridge hardware components like the gfx card?

VirtualPC and VMWare for example arent able to run Directx games of newer times.. and i would prefer not to use a vm as it would cause a too rapid drop in performance..

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This looks like it may help...

Fair warning: I've never had to deal with this sort of problem and I've never used these tools.

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you can use the maxmem boot.ini switch...
=> /MAXMEM

edit:
still need 1 reboot... you can add a second boot option in the boot.ini, one with 3Gb of ram for your atari game and one with all your ram for the rest...