ahh good i see you did not make just a random remark
no hard feelings anyway
the problem for me is that i use a soniccore dsp card for sound
and other licensed 32bit programms
though i love EU/PE i will not sacrifice my workstation to some weird requirements of a 'fun' passion
having used 8,16 and 32 bit systems i dont see a relevance to solely Ma's crytek2 mod.
maybe i should run crysis and check how it behaves but i doubt i will have similiar problems
as with last VU its not mainly out-of-ram issues but other crashes and also random disconnects
with the ammount of crash reports they should really borrow someone from crytek
to resolve the problems they ignored earlier this year and got it bad
with the previous VU not only affecting xp users
if i see other systems i'd rather run linux in general together with a SSD
and have 12 seconds system boots
but alas not an option..
the above suggestion didnt work so well,
but im using this setting for now and see if i can optimize it further:
-- [System-Configuration]
-- Attention: This file is generated by the system! Editing is not recommended!
ark_adaptive_music = 0
ark_human_lod_quality = 0.5
ark_human_morph_quality = 1
ark_human_render_textures = 1
ark_render_texture_quality = 1
ca_AttachmentCullingRation = 100
ca_DrawFaceAttachments = 0
ca_FacialAnimationRadius = 0
ca_UseDecals = 0
cl_rigidCamera = 0
cl_tpvDist = 10.9555
e_cbuffer_resolution = 256
e_clouds = 1
e_cull_veg_activation = 20
e_decals_allow_game_decals = 0
e_decals_life_time_scale = 0.5
e_detail_materials_view_dist_xy = 128
e_detail_materials_view_dist_z = 64
e_dissolve = 0
e_dynamic_terrain_dist = 100
e_foliage_wind_activation_dist = 0
e_gsm_cache = 1
e_gsm_lods_num = 5
e_gsm_range = 3
e_lod_min = 2
e_lod_ratio = 2
e_lods = 1
e_max_entity_lights = 8
e_max_view_dst = 500
e_obj_quality = 1
e_particles_lights = 0
e_particles_lod = 0
e_particles_max_screen_fill = 64
e_particles_min_draw_pixels = 1
e_particles_object_collisions = 1
e_particles_preload = 1
e_particles_quality = 1
e_phys_foliage = 0
e_phys_ocean_cell = 0
e_proc_vegetation = 0
e_ram_maps = 1
e_shadows = 1
e_shadows_cast_view_dist_ratio = 0.5
e_shadows_from_terrain_in_all_lods = 1
e_shadows_max_texture_size = 128
e_shadows_on_alpha_blended = 1
e_sky_type = 1
e_sky_update_rate = 1
e_terrain_ao = 1
e_terrain_lod_ratio = 3
e_terrain_normal_map = 1
e_vegetation_bending = 1
e_vegetation_min_size = 1
e_vegetation_sprites_distance_custom_ratio_min = 0.5
e_vegetation_sprites_distance_ratio = 0.7
e_vegetation_use_terrain_color = 1
e_view_dist_min = 20
e_view_dist_ratio = 20
e_view_dist_ratio_detail = 15
e_view_dist_ratio_vegetation = 20
e_water_ocean_fft = 0
e_water_ocean_soft_particles = 1
e_water_tesselation_amount = 7
e_water_tesselation_swath_width = 10
es_DebrisLifetimeScale = 0.3
es_MaxPhysDist = 50
es_MaxPhysDistInvisible = 10
g_breakage_particles_limit = 80
g_joint_breaking = 0
g_tree_cut_reuse_dist = 0.7
p_max_MC_iters = 4000
p_max_object_splashes = 3
p_max_substeps_large_group = 3
p_num_bodies_large_group = 30
p_splash_dist0 = 7
p_splash_dist1 = 30
p_splash_force0 = 10
p_splash_force1 = 100
p_splash_vel0 = 4.5
p_splash_vel1 = 10
q_Renderer = 2
q_ShaderFX = 1
q_ShaderGeneral = 2
q_ShaderGlass = 1
q_ShaderHDR = 1
q_ShaderIce = 1
q_ShaderMetal = 2
q_ShaderPostProcess = 1
q_ShaderQualityDummy = 2
q_ShaderShadow = 1
q_ShaderSky = 1
q_ShaderTerrain = 2
q_ShaderVegetation = 2
q_ShaderWater = 1
r_Beams = 2
r_BeamsDistFactor = 0.5
r_BeamsMaxSlices = 32
r_Brightness = 0.5
r_CloudsUpdateAlways = 0
r_ColorBits = 32
r_ColorGrading = 0
r_Contrast = 0.49
r_Coronas = 1
r_DepthOfField = 0
r_DetailDistance = 8
r_DetailNumLayers = 1
r_DetailTextures = 1
r_Driver = "DX9"
r_DynTexAtlasCloudsMaxSize = 32
r_DynTexAtlasSpritesMaxSize = 16
r_DynTexMaxSize = 32
r_EnvCMResolution = 2
r_EnvTexResolution = 2
r_EnvTexUpdateInterval = 0.05
r_FillLights = 10
r_Flares = 1
r_FSAA = 0
r_FSAA_samples = 1
r_Fullscreen = 1
r_Gamma = 1.38
r_Glow = 1
r_GlowScreenMultiplier = 0.2
r_HairSortingQuality = 1
r_HDRRendering = 2
im open for suggestions as well
PS: so far this setting keeps entropia.exe at about 1 GB in not too busy areas
Day 2 sent in case report late last night, got an automatic reply with case number. This morning I received second e-mail saying that I am on Planet Calypso and to report any further problems with this issue??
Maybe I should not have tried to sweat that larva bug....
. Now I remember that TP. Thanks for refreshing my memory. 
