[Bf-committers] Windows (XP) refuses to allocate > 1 GB

[Joe Eagar]

Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> See the thread here:
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=264&aid=4539&group_id=9 
>
>
> And with some googling I found this:
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/winmemory.html
>
> Apparently XP with SP2 refuses to give larger blocks than a gig. With 
> our floatbuffer approach that limits rendering to a resulution of 
> about 6000x9000 pixels.
>
According to MSDN, there is a group of functions for accessing > 4 GB, 
documented here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/memory/base/address_windowing_extensions.asp

But I have only 755 megs of memory, so I can't really test it.

Joe