FFXIV Crash resulting from 32bit memory addressing Limit

[Xophious]

Greetings everyone!

The thread was moved over from In-Game Bugs to Technical Support. Very good eye! There may be assistance here which can help prevent any further crashes due to the memory cap. I wish you the best!

- Xophious

[TwistedAx]

A way to extend time between crashes, if you have 3+GB of ram.

Could enable the /LAA (Large Address Aware) flag, though i don't know if it would be acceptable by SE, due to having to turn the flag on inside the game .exe itself.

SE could and should (as any respectable developer does anymore now days) enable the flag by default, without any adverse effects to users. This would be a <5 Min edit for a programmer.

I've patched many applications (Firefox, etc) and game .exe's (Single player, Offline games) with the /LAA flag and it can very well make a massive difference. Particularly on load times, and in normally laggy areas.

What /LAA does is, it removes the 32bit 2GB address area cap, and lets the program access the max amount of address area any 32bit program can potentially use, which is 4GB.

How Address Area is calculated:
Peripherals (Graphics cards, Sound cards) are accounted for first, though anymore usually only 256~MB is addressed at a time and the drivers handle the rest to save on Accessible Address Area,
Followed by Ram, usually.
4096MB - 256MB = 3840MB of addressable area left, which is why you usually only see 3.2-3.8gb with 4GB installed in a 32bit system.


My System Specs:
Core i7 950 D0 @4ghz
12GB G.Skill Ripjaws 2000mhz 9-9-9-24 1T Ram
Rampage III Formula
SLI 2x eVga GTX 480 SC+'s
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
2 300GB 10k RPM Velociraptor HHD's (Raid-0)
3 External 2TB HDD's for backups, media and blah blah
ProDigy Hi-Fi 7.1 modded tubes with Bur Brown Op-Amps (Sound Card)
24GB PageFile on Dedicated HDD (same drive for dedicated Linux-Swap)


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