Large Address Aware Enabler for FO3

FOSE from 1. 1 beta 8 onwards is compatible with this mod

This mod is not required if you are using the GOG version of FO3, as GOG have already made their release Large Address Aware

For DLC Issues:

If the DLCs are already in the DATA folder: when starting up the game, go into data files on the launcher and check them again.

Cannot find any Game Saves?

Go into the save folder, and pull the files out of your profile, and put in just the SAVES folder, NOT the one for your profile.

(Thanks to creedofheresy for the information!

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Introduction:

I am releasing this application as it may help with crashing and performance issues with Fallout 3, particularly when using my larger texture packs. The utility was originally programmed and released by MadBoris, for the game Supreme Commander. I (NMC) have simply tweaked the program to work with Fallout 3. Read all about the original utility here: http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=2382. .

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It is a good practice to specify large-address-aware for 32-bit applications (such as Fallout 3), by using the linker flag /LARGEADDRESSAWARE, even if the application is not intended for a 64-bit platform, because of the advantages that are gained at no cost. (Info From Microsoft)

Enabling this large-address-aware flag for software allows a 32-bit program to access more memory (with special boot options on a 32-bit OS or on a 64-bit OS- see instructions below)... In general, enabling the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag is a good practice, which is not enabled in Fallout 3.

That is what this utility does; it adds makes Fallout 3 'large-address-aware'. However. you also need to enable the '3gb switch' (except in Vista 64 bit).

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Background info:

Regardless of the amount of physical memory in your system, Windows uses a virtual address space of 4 GB, with 2 GB allocated to user-mode processes (for example, applications) and 2 GB allocated to kernel-mode processes (for example, the operating system and kernel-mode drivers).

On systems that have 1 GB or more of physical memory, these two startup switches (see below), can be used to allocate more memory to applications (3 GB) and less memory to the operating system (1 GB). This additional virtual address space helps reduce the amount of memory fragmentation in the virtual address space of the Exchange information store process.

So, what does this mean? Well...

* Fallout 3 (WITHOUT the 3gb switch and NOT large Address Aware) on 32-bit platforms ca