TS3 Randomness-thread!
Jan 26, 2012 11:13:14 GMT
Post by CharlieChomper on Jan 26, 2012 11:13:14 GMT
I'm so sorry I haven't paid more attention to this thread more over the past few months!
Jessica, if you're running a 32-bit operating system, having that much RAM may actually work against you instead of help you as there's a physical restriction that applies to all 32-bit operating systems (doesn't matter what operating system "family" nor in who created it) of where the absolute most you can have is 4GBs of RAM (this also includes within the calculation the amount of video RAM you have--not just system memory, if that makes any sense?)--and even having it at just 4GBs is generally not considered advisable.
Exceeding that limit can sometimes actually have a detrimental effect into how the operating system behaves and any applications running it on it (including sometimes running more "sluggish" or prone to more problems, including with just stability sometimes--again, this is not strictly displayed in how the operating system behaves but can be reflected more in how an application running on that operating system behaves).
Incidentally, the reason behind the restriction is that at the time computers were still in their relative infancy (and RAM was prohibitively expensive--I don't know how many people here would even remember nor have even heard of the concepts of "lower memory" versus "higher memory" in relation to software (this is something that mostly was seen in the DOS/MS-DOS era), but this is actually where that concept came from. It's also where that infamous quote attributed to Bill Gates regarding memory/RAM actually comes from, to provide some context into it), no one actually ever anticipated anyone would ever have as much memory as we have so the pre-64-bit architectures that had existed were never designed to handle more than that. The 4GB limit was basically unheard of back then to even fathom that much due to a combination of the cost and just that it was seen as no one ever needing that much (especially in a period where some things could be measured in bytes--the lowest level of measure).
To provide some perspective, it would be probably the equivalent of our thinking it may be impossible for anyone to ever have say several thousand Yottabytes (to provide some context into this, 1YB=1099511627776TBs (or 1125899906842624 GBs)--at best, it remains a theoretical limit at this time as no file system even has support for a unit that enormous)).
Although, that's probably more than most people wanted to know about the 4GB limit...
Whitney, regarding your laptop, have you considered looking into a laptop cooler to see if that may help? Also, if you keep the laptop at a 6-degree incline, it may help somewhat in keeping it cool.
However, getting back to this thread--many interesting photos! I really find it interesting when I see people play "themed" households and even neighborhoods and I love the screenshot with the rubber duckie and the sim playing with it--I don't think I've ever actually seen that before!
Jessica, if you're running a 32-bit operating system, having that much RAM may actually work against you instead of help you as there's a physical restriction that applies to all 32-bit operating systems (doesn't matter what operating system "family" nor in who created it) of where the absolute most you can have is 4GBs of RAM (this also includes within the calculation the amount of video RAM you have--not just system memory, if that makes any sense?)--and even having it at just 4GBs is generally not considered advisable.
Exceeding that limit can sometimes actually have a detrimental effect into how the operating system behaves and any applications running it on it (including sometimes running more "sluggish" or prone to more problems, including with just stability sometimes--again, this is not strictly displayed in how the operating system behaves but can be reflected more in how an application running on that operating system behaves).
Incidentally, the reason behind the restriction is that at the time computers were still in their relative infancy (and RAM was prohibitively expensive--I don't know how many people here would even remember nor have even heard of the concepts of "lower memory" versus "higher memory" in relation to software (this is something that mostly was seen in the DOS/MS-DOS era), but this is actually where that concept came from. It's also where that infamous quote attributed to Bill Gates regarding memory/RAM actually comes from, to provide some context into it), no one actually ever anticipated anyone would ever have as much memory as we have so the pre-64-bit architectures that had existed were never designed to handle more than that. The 4GB limit was basically unheard of back then to even fathom that much due to a combination of the cost and just that it was seen as no one ever needing that much (especially in a period where some things could be measured in bytes--the lowest level of measure).
To provide some perspective, it would be probably the equivalent of our thinking it may be impossible for anyone to ever have say several thousand Yottabytes (to provide some context into this, 1YB=1099511627776TBs (or 1125899906842624 GBs)--at best, it remains a theoretical limit at this time as no file system even has support for a unit that enormous)).
Although, that's probably more than most people wanted to know about the 4GB limit...
Whitney, regarding your laptop, have you considered looking into a laptop cooler to see if that may help? Also, if you keep the laptop at a 6-degree incline, it may help somewhat in keeping it cool.
However, getting back to this thread--many interesting photos! I really find it interesting when I see people play "themed" households and even neighborhoods and I love the screenshot with the rubber duckie and the sim playing with it--I don't think I've ever actually seen that before!