Need Help running EQ2 with 4G of RAM

[Maroger]

<p>I am running with 4GB of ram and using an INTEL dual core processor and INTEL MB so the AMD fixes will not work.</p><p>Does anyone have a solution for running EQ2 with 4GB of ram? </p><p>I am running XP homes edition which is 32 BIT.</p>

[willnotuse]

Is it not running at all or just experiencing issues?

[Maroger]

<cite>willnotuse wrote:</cite><blockquote>Is it not running at all or just experiencing issues?</blockquote><p>Experiencing severe issues.  Crashes a lot, screen loses all its windows and game crashes, suddenly screen will turn black but all icons and windows present. When it crashes I looked at the dump and it displays this message:</p><p>Unhandled exception EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0x007F4D87Application was trying to write to 0x00000028</p><p>Before I put the extra 2 gig of ram in I had it on 2 Gig and had no problems. </p><p>Thanks for the response. </p>

[Wingrider01]

<cite>Maroger wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>willnotuse wrote:</cite><blockquote>Is it not running at all or just experiencing issues?</blockquote><p>Experiencing severe issues.  Crashes a lot, screen loses all its windows and game crashes, suddenly screen will turn black but all icons and windows present. When it crashes I looked at the dump and it displays this message:</p><p>Unhandled exception EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0x007F4D87Application was trying to write to 0x00000028</p><p>Before I put the extra 2 gig of ram in I had it on 2 Gig and had no problems. </p><p>Thanks for the response. </p></blockquote>would suspect bad memory, a motherboard that cannot properly support 4GB ot bios upgrades needed. Would suggest that you download soemthing like the iso of memtest86, burn it to a cd and run it for abour 12 hours to see what errors pop up. If the issue started when you installed the memory, the likely culprit is the memory.

[willnotuse]

I agree.  Possibly bad memory.  Try running Memtest86 on the memory overnight.

[thyriel81]

- possible hardware error in memory (test the memory with memtest)- 32bit OS and 4gig ram isnt the best thing, check M$ KB on how to use more then 2gig on a 32bit OS, this could cause your problem if you did not do this.- Best would be installing 64bit OS, setting memory flag in everquest2.exe so it can use more then 2gig and it runs much smoother anyway that it could with 32bit OS

[Maroger]

<cite>thyriel81 wrote:</cite><blockquote>- possible hardware error in memory (test the memory with memtest)- 32bit OS and 4gig ram isnt the best thing, check M$ KB on how to use more then 2gig on a 32bit OS, this could cause your problem if you did not do this.- Best would be installing 64bit OS, setting memory flag in everquest2.exe so it can use more then 2gig and it runs much smoother anyway that it could with 32bit OS</blockquote><p>Have run MEMTEST - the memory is good. Do you have a URL for M$ KB?</p><p>I really don't want to go to VISTA -- I don't think it is ready for prime time yet. And doesn't EQ2 have issues with Vista?</p>

[willnotuse]

You tested it one memory stick at a time?

[thyriel81]

i had not a single problem yet with vista64, neither with eq2 nor with any other game that was not a general problem with the game (i have xp install too to test such things)beside that no link at hand and dont want to start searching for it now <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />If you dont know that article yet and how to enable it i recommend u look into your actual display of how much RAM windows has, im pretty sure u even cant use the 2 more gigs and they are not displayed if you didnt enabled them in windows.

[-Aonein-]

<cite>thyriel81 wrote:</cite><blockquote>i had not a single problem yet with vista64, neither with eq2 nor with any other game that was not a general problem with the game (i have xp install too to test such things)beside that no link at hand and dont want to start searching for it now <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src=" width="15" height="15" />" width="15" height="15">If you dont know that article yet and how to enable it i recommend u look into your actual display of how much RAM windows has, im pretty sure u even cant use the 2 more gigs and they are not displayed if you didnt enabled them in windows.</blockquote><p>Hmmm, 32bit operating systems should have access to 3.2 gig out of 4.</p><p>What this means is that if you have this much ram, 3.2 will only be able to be access'd. 2gig the game will use and the other 1.2gigs left over your OS will use, depending of course on how much stuff you really have running in the back ground I guess, 1.2 being the max it could use unless you have that much stuff running in the back ground it taxes from the game.</p><p>But he is right, if you have a system like that, it really is a waste to have so much ram, you are better off upgrading to a 64bit platform and if Vista turns you off, get the Windows XP 64bit version instead.</p>