"KevinL5275;14707816" wrote:
There is a program mentioned on this forum before called "large address aware" that will help some programs access more than 32-bits of memory. It doesnt work for me on Steam but other users mentioned it worked for them and helped them avoid certain out-of-memory errors.
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Sims_3:Large_Address_Aware
No, that is not what LAA means. Before that, the game could only use 2 GB of RAM. With LAA, it can use 4 GB (actually it's really about 3.7 GB due to overhead).
TS3 has been Large Address Aware (LAA) all on its own with no intervention from the player needed since Patch 1.17, the one that came out alongside LateNite. This is around where it must have become obvious to EA that 2 GB of RAM usage with a full complement of EPs was just not going to cut it for Windows users, and the heavier EPs like Pets, Seasons, IP, and ITF hadn't even come out yet. Where the LAA tweaks can help is when a player is on a 32-bit version of Windows and has 3-4 GB of RAM. A LAA application can otherwise run away with too much memory, thus leaving Windows unstable.
But we're talking about very fine lines of RAM usage for those on an already throttled system. With less that 1 GB "left over" for Windows, I would hope (and I usually don't go around saying this) that the player is on Win XP or else their system is just going to lock up for lack of resources. This is not something that is going to be helpful to anyone on a 64-bit operating system with plenty of RAM to go around that the game cannot use.
There are things we can all do to improve the game's performance. Getting it to use
more RAM is not one of them.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Tips+For+Better+Game+Performance
