How to restore default after increasing 'increaseuserva'

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Andrew Grayson

I used BCDEdit on a Windows Vista 32bit system to set "increaseuserva" to
2900 in order to get a bug ridden game to work. Now I am done with the game
I'd like to go back to the default as it has slowed my system (as expected
and warned about). Do I simply set increaseuserva to 2048 (or is the default
something else) or do I need to delete the whole entry and if so how do I
delete it?

Thanks
 
Andrew said:
I used BCDEdit on a Windows Vista 32bit system to set "increaseuserva" to
2900 in order to get a bug ridden game to work. Now I am done with the
game I'd like to go back to the default as it has slowed my system (as
expected and warned about). Do I simply set increaseuserva to 2048 (or is
the default something else) or do I need to delete the whole entry and if
so how do I delete it?
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The default if not configured is 2048, so setting it back to that is
sufficient.
 
Lucky you could boot. Also futile, as programs need to be written to use
this. Typically server applications like Databases or web servers use it
(and because Servers generally have poor video hardware they tend to have
enough memory left to boot).

A normal program is designed to access 2 GB of User address space. Giving it
3 GB won't change it's behaviour.
 
Lucky you could boot. Also futile, as programs need to be written to use
this. Typically server applications like Databases or web servers use it
(and because Servers generally have poor video hardware they tend to have
enough memory left to boot).
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The game in question also got a patching to enable addressing above 2GB so
wasn't futile also setting to just under 3GB left just over 1GB of physical
RAM for the kernel. It worked a treat in getting a badly written game to
work while the developers fix their errors.
 
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