First post, by Yushatak
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Yes, not just a "well I patched it and it says that it can use more than 4GB now.. I actually got a memory allocation tool and started multiple instances (since of course 32-bit apps can only allocate 2GB in a go unless I tweak that, but I have no need) to take up about 90% of my RAM.
As I'm sure many of you are aware, this is possible due to PAE. Microsoft disabled the capability (even in it's own PAE kernel) so it has to be patched in order to perform tests like this.
The reason I care, rather than using the copy of Windows 7 x64 I also own, is that I can run NTVDM with x86 Windows 7, whereas in x64 I am restricted to only DOSBox, limiting my capability to interact with hardware from DOS applications (floppy writing, for one, as I mentioned recently in another thread).
Anywho if anybody has questions or wants more details feel free to ask.
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