Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / January 2008

Hello,

I have recently purchased a new machine. It happens to be a Intel Xeon
quad-core processor with 3Ghz processing speed and obtained a total of 32GB
of RAM. As you can guess this is not a normal home computer. As a result of
the amount of RAM it has the system came with XP x64 as standard.

Initially everything seemed fine, I did however get a problem when running
some of my 32-bit applications (unfortunately most of my programs are 32-bit
versions). When using graphics program what I find my memory to runs out. I
am not sure why this is, when I look into Windows Task Manager it only shows
up that 1GB is being used, so what's the deal.

I checked in another graphics program and it seems to only be detecting just
over a gigabyte of RAM. I am wondering does the 32-bit programs (installed on
Program Files x86) have their own ram allocated to the programs separate to
the 64-bit programs (installed in Program Files). If this is the case is
there a way to increase the amount of RAM allocated to the 32-bit programs. I
would prefer to change the allocated RAM to a much higher number as I have
much RAM to go around.

If anybody can help please do send us a reply, it would be much appreciated.