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A number of people suggested this userva option which we have now employed on most of our 32-bit machines with good success we have used the 2700 option.
Did you try the /3gb switch with the /userva option? I use these options: /3gb /userva=2700 The /userva=2700 actually makes the /3Gb option behave as a /2.7Gb option.
Sometimes 3Gb for applications is a bit too much. That might help with the problem of the Nvidia driver.
Make sure you are using the /USERVA=2900 switch in addition to the /3GB switch. You can change the value to 2500 or even smaller to avoid the NVIDIA conflict. Without the 3GB switch, Pro/E will crash at 1.2 to 1.4GB (not the 2GB advertized). Also, the user’s local cache size will impact how much can be opened in Pro/E. INTRALINK 9.1 and Pro/E both use the same process (xtop.exe) memory allocation so keeping as few workspaces with as little cache as possible will help. We recently added memory to all our 32bit workstations to give them 4GB. Windows XP only shows about 3.5 but every little bit can help.
Please note we have come across a couple of problems with regards to remote access MSTSC with machines running 3 Gb switch, if the user attempts to access remotely. It crashes the PC with a memory error. This was supposed to be fixed in XP SP 3 but appears to continue to be a problem
Client side tuning has also been advised we are currently done this on one PC and are reviewing the improvements
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