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X3 Terran Conflict Back in Action

Just installed new Ram. I thought this board supported DDR2 but such is not the case. 2 trips to CompUSA confirmed that. LOL Had to exchange the DDR2 for plain ol DDR..... that was a bummer. And lucky too they'd do the exchange, seeing I opened the package.

So I now have 3 GB of DDR PC3200 installed. 2x1GB sticks and the carry over of 2 512 sticks. Maybe in a couple of weeks I'll grab 2 more 2GB sticks and get them in. The Kingston 2GB sticks I got were the last on the shelf, so hopefully they'll get more in.

Everything is running faster now. :D So far. ;)
 
Congrats Gary.

I hope you make the jump to 4Gigs soon. It should be the minimum...

If you are running WinXP 32bit, you can only run 3Gigs, I found out. So only 1 gig more if you are in WinXP32..



Bill
 
Thanks Bill, but I'm at the max now 3GBs.

I can't await to be able to build a new computer. I will have DDR3 in that one and maybe a dual boot of XP and 7, but on 2 separate HDDs..... biguns.

Oh, one of the tech repair guys at the CompUSA store down the road is interested in X3TC. I was telling him why I wanted more RAM and what sim I was running. When I went back over to do the exchange I took my X3 Gold Pack box and discs with me to show him... he's looking to buy it and possibly join us here on SOH.
 
Very cool Gary, I would not bother adding any moe to your current rig, XP/32 will work with a max of 3.25 (it shows up to 3.7X but still really only seems to address 3.25 so adding another gig at this point will do little or nothing. The tweak with the swap file is generally a good measure regardless of what amount of RAM you have and I have been using that on all my systems for several years, on some set-up it makes a huge difference.

Now regarding the new system and Dual booting to XP, don't bother with that thought, when the time comes, go for Win 7/64 Home Premium, and get the XP Mode download (free from MS) it is a much better way to go IMHO. I have it set-up on my system and it works GREAT, plus you get the benifit of having full access to anything installed on you Win 7 drive from the XP Virtual machine, including full OLE functionality. When the time comes let me know I can give you all kinds of help setting it up and some really cool tips on ways to tweak and use the Virtual mode with Win 7.
 
I am using 3 GB of RAM and it has made a huge differnce in some of the mega games i have to test and study. Dont know about X3 yet, just loading up today. will be interseting to see.

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CrisGer said:
I am using 3 GB of RAM and it has made a huge differnce in some of the mega games i have to test and study. Dont know about X3 yet, just loading up today. will be interseting to see.

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3 GB will serve you fine as long as your GPU is up to date and can handle a good sim, the only real problem will come is if you build up a big fleet and get a lot of ships in a fur ball in one sector. I am running 12 GB right now on an i7, with a 1GB Nvidia card and I can still drag X3 down to a crawl if I get a bloated fleet and start a battle with some low life's. I have found keeping my fleet at around 25-30 ships active at one time is good, over that and things start to go downhill, I have over 50 ships in my fleet, but I keep 20-30 parked at stations or on carriers until needed and keep the automated traders in service to a max of 8 (it gets hard to manage more than 8-10 traders operating at one time). I was running 4GB on my old system with Vista, and the number of ships I could keep active was just about the same on that system, so the game itself may not be addressing (X3R anyway) anything over the old 3.25 GB limit for a 32 bit OS.

My recomendation is start slow and as you begin to build up a fleet of ships play around with the new ones for just a bit, then either park them if they are not needed for a specific task right away or better yet sell them off and use the credits to buy something more useful like upgrades or bank the credits to get a station built, then you are taking "Good Times".

See you around the stars... Live Long and Prosper.
 
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