Skyrim 3.1gb Crash Limit & Skyrim Performance Monitor
A member of the S.T.E.P team contacted me to tell me about a problem Skyrim has with crashing if you surpass 3.1 gb of RAM used by the game. You can find the forum threads discussing the problem here:
CTD at 3.1GB
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A moderator has closed this comment topic for the time being* The only ones I can think of offhand are World of Warcraft (the 32-bit wow.exe loads first, which then launches wow-64.exe on 64-bit systems) and some third-party viewers for Second Life (such as Firestorm, which has separate 32- and 64-bit versions).
This. This a million times over. Alas, a lot of people still use Windows XP (including me until fairly recently), meaning it isn't economically viable for companies to make 64-bit games. Still, once it happens memory related issues should go away completely.
We have ENBoost for this. It tries to stop Skyrim from eating that amount of RAM for nothing.
The problem is, however, that the people advising the game companies are using the wrong data. Virtually any modern computer that can run games like Skyrim is running 64-bit now, especially purpose-bought gaming computers. The vast majority of their actual customers are already running 64-bit OSes, meaning that if they were to right now, this very minute, stop producing anything that is not 64-bit they would lose only an insignificant portion of their PC sales. Five years ago it may have been a good idea to continue to support 32-bit for desktops. Two or three years ago it may have been a good idea to continue to support 32-bit for the few laptops that could actually run games like Skyrim. From 2014 going forward, most laptops are sold with 64-bit. Most users don't even know whether they have 32 or 64-bit, but most likiely it is 64. Even consoles are now 64-bit. Forward thinking companies have released 64-bit only games this year, unfortunately they are in the minority amid the majority who are still living in the past.
SSME is the answer to the ram limitation. It will prevent crashes drastically while any ENB w/ ENBoost will circumvent the vram stability issue.