Any issues with >=4GB ram installed?

felix · Post by **felix** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:39 am

I was sure that I recalled something mentioned before on this list about
applications having issues when running with wine if the system had more
than 4GB installed.

Can't seem to find the post now to determine what it said and whether it
was just a specific app that had the issue or a more general issue.

Anyone running with 4GB or more RAM installed and experience any issues?

--
Darragh

"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:25 pm

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Darragh Bailey
<[email protected]> wrote:

I was sure that I recalled something mentioned before on this list about
applications having issues when running with wine if the system had more
than 4GB installed.

Can't seem to find the post now to determine what it said and whether it
was just a specific app that had the issue or a more general issue.

Anyone running with 4GB or more RAM installed and experience any issues?

No. I have had 4GB of ram or more for the last 3 to 4 years and no
problems at all related to the amount of RAM my 64 bit machines have..

John

James_Huk · Post by **James_Huk** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:13 pm

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 Windos, event thou on Linux, you can easily use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit kernel ;]

jeffz · Post by **jeffz** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:55 pm

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 ... memory.htm

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:07 pm

felix wrote:I was sure that I recalled something mentioned before on this list about applications having issues when running with wine if the system had more than 4GB installed.

Yes there were some issues with video drivers having difficulty with graphics heavy 32-bit applications, not just Wine.

I haven't seen any new developments about that in the last several month in bugzilla or on forum. So that issue probable is resolved now.

Charles Davis · Post by **Charles Davis** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:43 am

On 4/7/10 10:38 AM, Darragh Bailey wrote:

I was sure that I recalled something mentioned before on this list about
applications having issues when running with wine if the system had more
than 4GB installed.

Can't seem to find the post now to determine what it said and whether it
was just a specific app that had the issue or a more general issue.

Anyone running with 4GB or more RAM installed and experience any issues?

Nope.

Chip

Kai Meyer · Post by **Kai Meyer** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:43 am

On 04/07/2010 10:38 AM, Darragh Bailey wrote:

I was sure that I recalled something mentioned before on this list about
applications having issues when running with wine if the system had more
than 4GB installed.

Can't seem to find the post now to determine what it said and whether it
was just a specific app that had the issue or a more general issue.

Anyone running with 4GB or more RAM installed and experience any issues?

I run with 4GB of memory on Fedora 12 running wine.i686. Oblivion, World
of Warcraft, and Portal all work fine.

-Kai Meyer

David C. Kerber · Post by **David C. Kerber** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:58 am

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James_Huk
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wine] Re: Any issues with >=4GB ram installed?

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 Windos, event thou on Linux, you can easily

Not necessarily; some of the server versions of windows NT and 2k (Data Center edition, IIRC) could use much more than 4G, I assume using PAE and paging. Those versions were quite expensive, though.

use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit kernel ;]

david.hagood · Post by **david.hagood** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:05 pm

Delorme AAA MapNGo 6.0 has a problem - or rather, the DAO library it uses
has a problem, in that it interprets any amount of free memory >2G as an
error.

It's not really *Wine's* fault, as the same happens in a real Windows
environment, but a problem it is.

felix · Post by **felix** » Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:25 am

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 10:07:35PM -0500, vitamin wrote:

Yes there were some issues with video drivers having
difficulty with graphics heavy 32-bit applications, not
just Wine.

I haven't seen any new developments about that in the
last several month in bugzilla or on forum. So that issue
probable is resolved now.

Good to know.

Certainly sounds like its not a problem anymore from the responses.

--
Darragh

"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:33 am

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 ... 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.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:39 pm

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 ... 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