Windows XP 3 Gig Memory Switch

[DannyT]

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...AE/PAEmem.mspx

Has anyone ever had to do this...?
My motherboard shows the 4 gigs of memory but XP only sees three gigs of it showing 2.87. Which leaves me to ask you guys that use PC's to play games how to get more then 3 gigs to work. Also I had to take a one gig stick out of my mother board because when it booted up it was all fuzzy and couldnt see . My board can handle 8 gigs but for some reason when I had 5gigs in there it was blurry as ...I'm thinking that might be fixed with a flash on the bios but as far as the other in XP I'm lost!!!

And lastly How can I tell Call of Duty 4 is chopping up because of lack of memory or because of the video card? When ever I start game play in a mission its just gets really laggy and slow as if I were playing online. Just checking to see what you guys can come up with or have dealt with before

thanks

[PM5K]

3GB is enough, it's probably your video card, what kind is it?

[Pistons < Spurs]

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/RAM.html

[DannyT]

3GB is enough, it's probably your video card, what kind is it?

ATI Raedeon X1200
128mb I believe

Its on board and I know on board sucks but still thought it would be able to play the game
since it was 128 meg

[leemajors]

xp 64 bit recognizes 4GB RAM, but 32 bit does not.

[Pistons < Spurs]

That card just isn't built to handle games like COD 4.

[DannyT]

now I know whats next

tell me a reasonable card for pc games these days?

[leemajors]

8800 Gt

[PM5K]

ATI Raedeon X1200
128mb I believe

Its on board and I know on board sucks but still thought it would be able to play the game
since it was 128 meg

Did you really even have to ask?

[CubanMustGo]

ATI Raedeon X1200
128mb I believe

Its on board and I know on board sucks but still thought it would be able to play the game
since it was 128 meg

Here's a game that card can handle:

[DannyT]

I thought having 128mg or 265mb of ram in your card would be enough to play a game on the pc. And from what I have seen in the past I thought the game wouldnt even load if it didnt have the requirements to run from the get go.

[sabar]

That card is way outdated.

A radeon x1600 will play CoD at regular framerates if you want a cheap card. I've had it for a few years and it was cheap back when I bought it.

BTW windows XP can't address 4 gb of memory space, has to do with 32-bit limits.

Oh yeah, and video card memory is only one problem. Things like number of pipelines, operations per second, pixel shader version all play a big part.

[DannyT]

thanks dude...see why the I stick to 360's and ps3s

[CrazyOne]

Try Tigerdirect.com.. they had several 8000 GT models for some decent prices. What kind of connection do you have - AGP or PCIe?