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FSX Would doubling RAM size help?

Clutch Cargo

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I currently have 8GB RAM on my pc. I can work with about 1/2GB of ground photo scenery before SBX crashes. If I double my RAM to 16GB would I get more capacity out of SBX? Maybe 1GB of workspace?

Also another question... can I put in the SBX .ini file a different path to have the 'WORK' folder located on a different drive?

thx,

Clutch
 
The ini file has a place for:

BmpDir=C:\Program Files\SBuilderX313\Tools\Work

I could change C to E...

Did you know, you can copy the whole SBuilderX folder to the E drive, and run SBuilderX from there, and it will place the work in the Work folder there? You might want to delete the ini file ( SBuilderX will build another ).

In other words, you can have multiple copies of SBuilderX in different locations at the same time.

Dick
 
Hello:

Since SBuilder's own support forums at PTSIM have not seen a "public" reply by the author of that program since some time earlier in 2011, I don't know if there are any contra-indications he (Luis Vieira de Sá) might have otherwise expressed relative to a SBuilder executable "LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE" attribute edit, and a 32-bit Windows USERVA modification I proposed here: :idea:

http://www.ptsim.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7250


I'd be interested in feedback from others as to whether this may help to a significant extent with address space limitation problems which have been reported when working with SBuilder; ideally one can set SBuilder (as a 32-bit application) to utilize more than 2GB address space per task session ...as discussed in threads linked via the PTSIM forum thread above.

Hope this helps ! :)

GaryGB
 
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Hi,

Not sure if it also applies to SBuilderX, but with my tools I have has problems with certain external DLL files and 64 bit. So just making the EXE use more memory might give trouble when a DLL is called that can not handle this.
 
Ah, thx for the replies. Guess it's time for an SBuilderX upgrade! (hint-hint).

Great idea Dick, I will try a 2nd install on my other "project" drive. Perhaps setting the 'Work' path would also be good for that upgrade that's coming, :p

Clutch
 
You don't really need to reinstall... just copy the whole SBuilderX folder with all the sub-folders... you could delete the INI and also the tile folders... they will then get rebuilt for your new projects. I tested this on WindowsXP 32-bit... you may need to fool with it a bit to get the same results with Windows7 64-bit. Let us know how that works for you.

Dick
 
To follow up Dick,

As you suggested, I just moved my entire SBuilderX folder over to my other drive (and all 13GB of project data!). Let it rebuild the .ini file, checked my paths and plugged away! Seems to work just fine :)
 
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