[Wine] Any issues with >=4GB ram installed?
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 10 20:38:32 CDT 2010
DaVince wrote:
> jeffz wrote:
>
>> James_Huk wrote:
>>
>>> I newer experienced problem on my PC with 4 GB of RAM, I used 32-bit PAE-enabled kernel (so it could map up to 64 GB of ram) - no problems with wine or anything else.
>>>
>>> P.S
>>> It is funny that in order to use 4GB of memory, or more - you must have 64-bit Windows, event thou on Linux, you can easily use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit kernel ;]
>>>
>> What's funny? These are license restrictions. See here http://www.geoffchappell.com/viewer.htm?doc=notes/windows/license/memory.htm
>>
>
> Say what you want, but there being no technical restrictions just makes the whole deal weirder. And more obvious they'd really like people to just switch to a newer version of Windows, of course.
>
>
No, they want you to switch to a 64 bit version. Even Windows XP had
this. The problem is that they did not want to license a memory
extender that they had no control over...(Silly Microsoft.)
James McKenzie
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