Memory

**CzingerX** · Jan 6 2008, 03:49

Alright, right now I have 2gigs of PC 5200 DDR2 memory in my rig. I have an extra stick to put me at 3 gigs total. When I have 3 gigs my index score drops to 4.0. in Vista. With 2 it's 5.9. Anyways, all I want to use it for is ARMA. Which is better? I'll go to four gigs sooner or later, even though Vista reconizes 3.5.

**Placebo** · Jan 6 2008, 06:24

Better is whichever is smoother when playing ArmA, some score in another application is meaningless, if ArmA is smoother with 3gb for you then 3gb is better, common sense really

**Vulture2k1** · Jan 13 2008, 18:47

Will there ever be a fix for the 4 gig RAM issue?

I got another 2 gig of RAm a week ago.... all games work fine except of Arma.. and i dont want to downgrade my PC just to play Arma.. even games that are way older work fine.. maybe they dont use the RAM but they work.. Arma is the only game fucking around

Now i nearly had every issue arma can have -_- vista64.. gf8800gtx.. 4 gig ram... onboard sound..

**Dwarden** · Jan 13 2008, 21:16

it's possible the performance drop is caused by 3rd stick running only in 64b mode (single channel)

only pairs runs in 128b mode (dual channel)

this ofc apply only to channels supporting this

also in pairs banks interleaving is way faster than with odd numbers

way to test it would be with 4 sticks (4GB) ... if the perf index indicate similar or higher than with 2 ... then you got answer

**Vulture2k1** · Jan 13 2008, 21:19

ArmA does not run with 4 GB o_O

**Placebo** · Jan 14 2008, 03:28

Originally Posted by (Vulture2k1 @ Jan. 14 2008,05:19)

ArmA does not run with 4 GB o_O

Isn't that only with Vista?

**Vulture2k1** · Jan 14 2008, 08:22

Well the OP uses Vista...

**Placebo** · Jan 14 2008, 11:48

I appreciate that but your previous comment seemed to imply that ArmA doesn't run with 4gb Ram no matter what OS is used.

**Vulture2k1** · Jan 14 2008, 11:54

Yeah.. no.. sorry.. sure Arma runs great on older PCs not using Vista.. but nonetheless.. will there be a fix for the vista-4-gig-issue? with 1.09?

Please look into it.. i dont think its too hard to do a workaround.. or fix.. or whatever.. i just dont want to boot my pc new every time i switch from Crysis or CoD4 to ArmA

**RN Malboeuf** · Jan 14 2008, 13:38

it's not that good to upgrade from 2Gb to 3Gb cause with 3 ram planks your memory won't work in dual channel mode anymore

Thus you _can_ get some stability and speed problems. If you really need more memory - better upgrade up to 4Gb. Ram is really cheap now anyway

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