yes the fourm gose in depth on the percise inter workings of the paradox game programming. but what dose that mean to a normal preson. (not a computer programer or paradox game design tech personal. what it basically means is
The aperture holds overflow memory allocations from the video board in main physical RAM, in much the same way as the swap file from Windows holds overflow memory from physical RAM. This memory area is also known as the GART, and the GART driver for your chipset controls it. There is one, very nasty side effect of the GART. As the video card manages the contents of the GART RAM area at it's discretion, Windows cannot use this portion of physical RAM. Consider is permanently allocated for use by the video subsystem (aka card + driver). So, if you have 256 MB of physical RAM, and you have set the aperture in the BIOS to half of that, you actually have created a system for yourself with only 128 MB of usable RAM. Thus, reduce the aperture! Now, I hear you ask, is it wise to deviate from the recommended aperture size? The answer is simple: yes, at least for the purpose of our game. Our game doesn't use (a lot of) textures, and doesn't use 3D, so that memory reservation is a waste of resources. Furthermore, over the past couple of years, the amount of available video RAM has steadily increased. 128 MB is currently the default, and 256 MB cards are appearing as we speak. The cards have so much spare RAM now, that they no longer need the GART memory to overflow into. There is only one restriction here. For some unexplainable reason, Windows doesn't like an aperture size of less than 16 MB, and becomes in fact unstable. So set the aperture to 16 (or 32) MB, and you free up physical RAM for use by our game.
a bunch of Technical mombo jumbo that know normal person who is not a computer progamer can Possibly begin to understand. I am a normal person who dose not know the exeact way my computer works when i read something like that all I see is well that is right above this page this means nothing to me. now the small parts of this lengthy manual on how to re program your operating system that I understood I did do. like defraging and stuff. but as for the other 100 pages I did not bother to do more than just glance at it. and I might actually try to figure out what to do if it actually gave the instruction on how to do these things (which if done wrong can completely destroy your computer). but It gave no instructions on how to do any thing. it just said this is what you have to change now you figure out how to do it. I meet all the Recommended reqirements and i dont have no where near normal gameplay. when I buy a game WHEN ANY ONE BUYS A GAME and there computer meets not only the reqired but suprasses it and meets the reccomended. Reccomended which is what paradox actually reccomends for normal non laggy gameplay. NOT REQIRED BUT RECCOMENDED REQIREMENTS. then one would expect that the game play would be normal. am I right. one would not expect they would have to change there operating system to play it if they do meet the reccomneded reqirements.
am I right. I am pissed because I paid 39.99 for a game that I meet all reccomended Requirements not only do i meet them my computer greatly supasses all of them. and I can't play it. now if paradox actually put what was reqired for normal game i wouldent be mad I would say well they told me on the box what was Required and I just don't got it. oh well. but no if you ask me they lied. Im takeing It back screw this this is worthless
