Custom memory allocators and A3.

[pd3 25]

I stumbled upon this site and found it interesting as I was always kind of bummed by the memory use limits in Arma 2.

https://github.com/fred41/tbbmalloc_arma

I suppose some of my questions would be for people who:

- have used them successfully

- have used them successfully with windows 7

- have an understanding of whether the ones available are relevant or useful given any recent updates to A3 as of late

I have questions specifically regarding some of the instructions required for using them.

The use of large pages requires the lock pages in memory privilege for the arma user.

Make sure your arma user account has this privilege set in your local security policies settings (secpol.msc, restart required). If your useraccount, which you use to start arma, is member of the administrator group, you have to start arma as administrator!

Secpol.msc is not even available on my computer, I am capable of flagging applications to run as administrator, I really don't know enough about screwing around with such things to know if that makes the whole thing a non-starter. I have no idea what's required to lock pages in memory privilege for a specific application except their mention of a program I don't have access to.

Any insight would be helpful.

[Greenfist 1863]

That particular allocator has it's own thread here: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?163640-Arma3-and-the-LARGEADDRESSAWARE-flag-%28memory-allocation-gt-2GB%29

If you don't the secpol.msc, you can edit the registry manually or use the tool found in the link above.

Edited October 29, 2014 by Greenfist

[pd3 25]

Amazing, it worked.

Thanks for the heads up.