Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Large address aware and games

Recently there was a huge outcry about how a recent patch to World of Warcraft caused it to use more than 2GB of address space when the maximum settings were used which led to a crash. One patch later, it was fixed.

One of the most common responses from the community was to ask Blizzard to enable the Large Address Aware flag to enable World of Warcraft to use more than 2GB of memory. Blizzard said no.

But, I was interested.. How many games have that flag enabled? 
I wrote a quick little program that parsed my games directory and came up with a list.

  • Armed Assault 2
  • Borderlands
  • Modern Warfare 2
  • Dawn of War 2
  • Farcry 2 Server
  • GTA4
  • Mass Effect 2
  • Stalker: Clear Sky
  • Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
  • X3 Terran Conflict
  • Eve Online
  • Civ4 Beyond the Sword
  • Guild Wars
  • Sacred 2
  • The Witcher
  • Forged Alliance
  • Rainbow Six Vegas 2
  • Never Winter Nights 2

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