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3D Studio Max
How Can I Increase The Amount Of RAM used by max
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts30 Jul 2006hi all i was wondering if someone can help me out on how to increase the ram usage by max cause i heard its limited on windows xp i dont really understand that but i heard it only uses as much as 800mb ram only and i have 1.5gb so i would like to increase it at least to 1gb ram
thanks for any help that comes
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01 Aug 2006
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts12 Aug 2006hey man thanks a mil for your response and i just started working with simulations and its true i need more ram but also i need your opinion on a good computer can you tell me what kind of computer is best for graphics and all and the budget is not more than 1500$ in addition that i use windows based not mac thanks again an i hope you reply to this one I LOVED YOUR ANIMATIONS MAN MASTER PIECES
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12 Aug 2006i've heard that the most Max can use at a time is 2Gb. So, to fully utilize that, you have to have more than 2Gb so that windows can still use whatever it needs to run.
but, thats only what i've heard, i don't know crap about tech stuff, so i don't even know how to figure out what my machine is doing at any given time.
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13 Aug 2006
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts14 Aug 2006well for me to honest it never crashed it just gets slower and slower till it gets so slow i have to wait 30min for it to do a command thats why i am asking about the ram should i go for an upgrade or wait for 3d max 9 and see how it works with my 64 bit amd athlone?
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ALi 608 posts15 Aug 2006I don't think so mahmoud. I have a amd athlon 64 and 1 gb of ram. and it works fine. however if your scenes got very large and crowded max will be very slow. I experience that every day in our project. ( it has a lot of charachters and large and detailed environments. )
anyway, I'm waiting for 3dsmax 9.0 to check out how it works with my 64bit cpu.
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts15 Aug 2006hehe
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17 Aug 2006Max is limited by Windows..which allows up to a maximum of 2Gig RAM per operation, ie. MAX will only ever get a maximum of 2Gbytes under windows. With my personal experience, it crashes around 1.73Gbytes usage.
There is teh /3Gig switch which can be added to your windows startup ini file..it allows windows to use up to 3Gig per operation. a simple web search should show you how to do it.
This is all however resolved in the newer 64bit architecture versions of windows, which allow Much more RAM usage per operation.
I have 4Gig installed on my workstation, but i can never use more than 1.73 for MAX...
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