Break the 512mb RAM limit

[Charax]

I've moved on to a PC with 4GB of memory. As I recall, there is no point to installing FOG because of the 512mb limit.

Cheers,

Charax

[Shanafeg]

You're wrong.  Mauzeris posts the following in another discussion thread dealing with 64-bit Vista:

Patch the function ASI_SetMemoryLimits() in FONTG410.dll file to set the limit in software.
Patch offset =  0x000812E8
Old data  = 00 00 00 00
New data = FF FF FF 7F

I'm running FOG 415 with Win XP on a machine with 3gig of memory and FOG works absolutely fine.

[ddennis]

Very cool. But how does one apply this patch?

Thanks,

DD

You're wrong.  Mauzeris posts the following in another discussion thread dealing with 64-bit Vista:

Patch the function ASI_SetMemoryLimits() in FONTG410.dll file to set the limit in software.
Patch offset =  0x000812E8
Old data  = 00 00 00 00
New data = FF FF FF 7F

I'm running FOG 415 with Win XP on a machine with 3gig of memory and FOG works absolutely fine.

[Shanafeg]

You need a hex editor, one that displays a binary (non-text) file's information in hexadecimal numbers, and allows you to change them, byte by byte.  The patch offset is the relative byte in the file where the numbers to be changed are located (000812E8 hex from the start of the file).  Then, you have four numbers (bytes) which have to be changed from zeroes to the sequence FF FF FF F7.

There are a number of free hex editors which you can download from the web.  I used one called HDD Free Hex Editor Neo.  You can tell Neo to position the cursor at byte 000812E8, and then you just update the following four bytes.

Of course, whenever doing editing like this, ALWAYS make a backup copy of your file before you start in case anything goes wrong!!!!!

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