6gb skyrim

[reapersintent]

I know with the most recent patch we can have skyrim use up to 4 gig of ram, but is there a way to make it allocate more ram that 4 gig? I have 8 gig of top dollar ram and want to put it to use in skyrim.

[bben46]

As far as I know, the game physical limit to RAM is 4G. The reason is the game was made to be backward compatible with 32 bit Windows. And 32 bit windows can only see about 3.25G of ram. This is a limitation of 32 bits. The 2G limit was a part of windows, by limiting the ram for any one program to 2G max, that left plenty of RAM for the operating system and the background processes that are always there.

 

64 bit operating systems can see far more ram, much more than your mother board can have installed. However, Windows still limits the amount of ram it can use - to 'only' 192G :tongue: Note: MS has artificially limited Win7 home basic to 8G and home premium to 16G. even if it is 64 bit. Only the Win7 pro and up can use up to 192G..

 

But even though Winx64 pro can address 192G of ram, because the game was made for a 32 bt windows, it can still only use a maximum or 4G of ram. But on a 64 bit system,it can use the entire 4G for the game if you do have more. That pesky operating system and background processes can be moved into the extra ram you have leaving the 4G free for the game.

 

We will not see more than that allowed until the games are actually made for 64 bit operating systems and are no longer backwards compatible to older 32 bit operating systems

[reapersintent]

that... is really stupid.

 

Oh well... It was worth a shot I guess. It's also good to know cause it means I needn't bother with maxing out my mother board. 8 gig of ram will be plenty until they start doing this.