Hi all,
Bucksnort, over at the WOFF forum recently posted an extremely helpful link to a utility for improving the performance of 32bit based games (like CFS3). Currently, CFS3 is only able to use 2 GB of RAM, no matter how much you have on your PC. In my case, when CFS3 reached this limit (usually over dense scenery areas like cities) the game would crash. Others might experience a loss of framerates instead. This utility performs an edit to the CFS3.exe that enables it to use up to 4 GB of RAM. Obviously, to benefit from this, you must have at least 4 GB of RAM installed on your system. But I can say it is easy to use and quite effective. Just drop the .exe file into your CFS3 directory and run it. Select cfs3.exe in the program and the rest is done automatically. I am now able to fly over cities and other scenery rich environments as long as I like with sliders all on 5 and 30 or so FPS with no crashes. Before if I had done this the game would have crashed in less than a minute. Alternatively I can get a steady 60 FPS everywhere and no crashes with the scenery sliders turned down a bit. WOFF apparently already has it installed, but CFS3 users can really benefit by using it. Make sure you make a backup copy of your cfs3.exe before you try it just in case. Here's the link: http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php
Enjoy!
Daniel
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