****** VERY IMPORTANT: IF YOU ARE USING AN x64 OPERATING SYSTEM: SKIP THE “DIRECTIONS” SECTION.<\/p>\n
Introduction:<\/p>\n
This is for intermediate to advanced Windows users.
\nFollow the instructions carefully…the risk is minimal, as long as you backup your RailRoads.exe.<\/p>\n
This will enable RailRoads to use over 2GB of memory in the application space.\u00c2\u00a0 It uses conventional tools using a batch file so everyone can see nothing suspicious goes on.
\nThis tool will automatically set the header in the RailRoads.exe so that it can address more than 2GB memory.
\nNormally XP will only address up to 2GB memory for applications and 2Gb for the kernel.
\nIf we add a boot.ini switch \/3GB, then XP is allowed to address up to 3GB for applications.
\nBut unfortunately only applications that are enabled with “IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE” header can utilize more than 2GB of the space.<\/p>\n
I highly recommend you look at some official information here at microsoft:
\nhttp:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/whdc\/system\/platform\/server\/PAE\/PAEmem.mspx<\/p>\n
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Directions:<\/p>\n
First you need to tell XP\/Vista that it can use more than 2GB of RAM for applications.
\nManually edit your boot.ini file by adding ” \/3GB \/Userva=2900″ to your boot.ini (no quotes).
\nYour boot.ini is normally read only and you will need to change that temporarily while you edit it.
\nTo do this, right-click the file and untick “Read Only”. After editing the file, restore the Read-only status.
\nTo Edit it manually you can find it on the root of your system drive or
\ngo to system properties\/advanced tab, settings under ‘startup and recovery’ section, then hit edit.<\/p>\n
Mine looks like:\u00c2\u00a0 multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\\WINDOWS=”Windows XP Professional” \/FASTDETECT \/NOEXECUTE=OPTIN \/3GB \/Userva=2900<\/p>\n
Yours maybe different, the only thing you should change is add ” \/3GB \/Userva=2900″.<\/p>\n
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Now for the tool to enable RailRoads to use more than 2GB…<\/p>\n
*** Important: First make a backup original of you RailRoads.exe, by renaming the copy to Oblivion.exe.original ***<\/p>\n
The tool will add the “LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE” header for you to your executable.
\nCopy RailRoads.exe to this folder.
\nDoubleclick startme.bat then the menu walks you through.
\n1) Hit the A key to add the large address header.
\n2) Press any key to continue.
\n3) When back at main menu hit ‘V’ to output the headers in text so you can see the values.
\n4) Now you can check to see if it is enabled.\u00c2\u00a0 Scroll to the top and look for section “FILE HEADER VALUES”. Look for a line in that section that says “Application can handle large (>2GB) addresses”.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the tenth line down in that section.\u00c2\u00a0 If you see that line then the executable is now enabled for >2GB, you are done.
\n5) Copy the enabled RailRoads.exe back to your Sid Meier’s Railroads! folder.
\n6) To avoid any strange issues with future patches, I suggest you rename your 3GB capable RailRoads.exe to something else like RailRoads3GB.exe, then make a shortcut to it on your desktop.\u00c2\u00a0 In the meanwhile, keep the original where it belongs and you will avoid any possible patching or online issues.<\/p>\n
At anytime if you want to remove the large address header then you can restore you original backed up exe or use the app and use the Remove function and it will remove the header.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you run (R) to remove the header you have the original exe back, the MD5 hashes do match.<\/p>\n
No strange side effects have been witnessed, but glad I can play some big games now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Alright, since you have read the above this link will download the 3GB enabler edited for Sid Meiers Railroads<\/a>. Do not forget to listen to the readme’s warning and skip the “directions” section of the instructions if you have a 64Bit operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes Sid Meier’s Railroads simply crashes for no fault of the player or the map maker. When this happens it is likely because the game ran out of memory and when it went to go do that one more thing it found that it couldn’t, so it crashes. Luckily there is a fix for this. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46ySx-9R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}