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by Dylan16807 2201 days ago
So some important notes here:

* PAE is technically enabled on most machines, but only for side effects like DEP, and there's a software lock on using more than 4GB memory.

* Via either spending lots of money or patching some files, you can get a 32-bit version of windows to use 64GB of memory. As long as your drivers don't explode.

* "4GB virtual address space" is a bit misleading. A normal 32-bit process can only use 2GB on 32-bit windows. (or 3GB if you change some settings) The upper part of the address space has to be reserved for the kernel. If you want the entire 4GB for your process, you have to run it on 64-bit windows.

As long as you can make it work, getting windows to recognize more memory despite per-process caps is a massive improvement and "limited to 4GB RAM" really undersells it.