Using more than 1.2GB of RAM!
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:06 pm
I kept having memory issues while organizing a large collection. I found a way to increase romcenter's available memory beyond 1.2GB. It's fairly simple, but requires binedit.exe from Microsoft. You can install it by installing the community version of Visual Studio.
After installing, I simply do the following:
Right now, I have a session running using (at the moment) 2.2GB of RAM.
I saw a reference to a 64bit version coming someday, but in the meantime, you might want to update the release process to run editbin.exe against the binaries before posting them.
After installing, I simply do the following:
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c:\Downloads\romcenter32_4.2.0.beta2>"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\bin\Hostx64\x64\editbin" /LARGEADDRESSAWARE *.exe
I saw a reference to a 64bit version coming someday, but in the meantime, you might want to update the release process to run editbin.exe against the binaries before posting them.