Yes please, Hellbender!

RoF is currently working like a charm on my XP 32 bit system and I have no complaints, but eventually I want to upgrade. I have to expect that RoF will demand more resources in the future. I only fly SP, although I don't know how much bearing that has on upgrade issues, if any.

wait a second...Lefty from NeoQB said ROF can use 2GB max....and i checked that when I was online...It used only 1.6 GBs.....

Yep.

But all the other stuff - TIR, TeamSpeak, FRAPS, Pr0n downloading tool, etc. can use it.

The 32 bit OS was every bit (byte?) constrained to how much RAM it could use as RoF is.

I have only had Windows 7 on since last Friday and I am LOVING IT!

The load times in ROF seem much less and my stutter so far seems to be gone. I have a quad with 8 gigs and a 250 1 GB video card running on Windows 7 Premium 64bit. I do need to do more practicing though for sure.

Ok I installed Windows 7 now ROF will not update so I cannot play the game..What?

Please do write this up. Can't have enough info. I'm piecing together a pure gaming system soon, and need to do it on a budget. I've already purchased an i7-920 (with DO stepping) and plan to do a mild overclock to about 3.6ghz. I also plan to buy the ASRock X58 Extreme mobo (about $170.00 USD). I'm trying to hold out until the newer Nvidia GT300 series comes out but the ATi 58xx series looks pretty good too. I'm open to suggestions.
Flyby out

Make sure that "rof_updater.exe" is allowed through Windows Firewall.

I had to manually unblock it.

well if you have 4 GIGS of RAM....and ROF is using 1.7GB max....I think 1.6 GIGS of left RAM (left on 32 bit OS) is enough for WIN XP and all other stuff (trackir, TS etc.)..

thers really (at the moment) no need for 64 bit OS unsless ur hard workin designer/producer working with Maya, Adobe Premiere/Photoshop/AE which can benefit from more RAM when ur workin with large pics or footage.....

The max total RAM address space for a 32bit OS is 4 gigabyte. If your graphic card has 1G of RAM, your maximum memory is going to at most be 3GB, because the 32bit OS has to use 1GB of that address space to address your video memory. It’ll actually be lower than the 3GB because there are other hardware resources that need address space, too. So, saying there is no reason to go with a 64bit OS is BS to be honest. The real fact is that there is no reason to go with a 32bit OS on a new build PC.

Simple fact, if you have a new 64bit CPU and are getting a new OS then it is much wiser to go with a 64bit OS to get the full benefit from it. I see many people who purchase a new 32bit version of Vista or Windows 7 and stick 4GB of RAM and a 1GB high end graphics card. Before they have enven built their new PC they have crippled it by practically throwing away 1.4GB tp 1.5GB of usable RAM.

Using some simple mathematics with RoF on a 32bit OS with a 1GB Graphics card and 4G RAM.

4GB RAM
- 1GB RAM for GPU (effectively eliminating 1GB of system RAM)
- 1.7GB for RoF
- approx 0.3 - 0.5GB for other hardware addressing
That leaves a total of 0.8 - 1.0GB RAM for your OS and other apps that are running in the background. I can assure you that if RoF was running on such a system your free RAM would be measured in the low Megabytes, and that the paging file would be used a lot.

I've already purchased an i7-920 (with DO stepping) and plan to do a mild overclock to about 3.6ghz

With a decent heatsink and good airflow it should do 4GHz and hardly getting warm (depending on your motherboard of course)

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