Played around with BCDedit and now need help


  1. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 64 bit
       #1

    Played around with BCDedit and now need help


    Hi All,

    I would need some help. Because a game of mine, Total War Shogun 2 crashes continuously at one point in the game when a turn is ending, I went online and checked out some possible tweaks and/or solutions. Most people appeared to be saying that the trick was to increase allocated memory by going into BCDEdit and increasing the memory allocation. I did this by typing the following in the cmd window after running it as an Administrator :

    bcdedit/set increaseuserva 2500

    The command line worked. Except, I have Windows 7 64bit, and it seems that this wasn't something that was needed to be done since the 64bit version already allocates sufficiently high amounts of RAM for running applications.

    Where I need your help is to restore the original settings that were present before I increased RAM allocation.

    I tried writing this : bcdedit /deletevalue increaseuserva

    This didn't work because that command line doesn't seem recognised right now by my OS. It gives me an error of sorts.

    Can I just write something like

    bcdedit/set increaseuserva 8000 ???

    I have 12GB or RAM.

    I had noticed that my computer struggled opening some applications after doing that first increaseuserva.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    P.S. That also didn't help to fix the game crash, so I guess double whammy for me.
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  2. Posts : 10,796
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #2

    bcdedit/enum all

    look carefully. Do you see increaseuserva?
    There's no need to set this setting on x64 win7! Please delete it
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  3. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Ok, I do see increaseuserva and it says 2500. So my modification succeeded, unfortunately.

    So how do I delete it? Do I set increaseuserva to 8000?
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  4. Posts : 10,796
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #4

    theking01 said:
    Ok, I do see increaseuserva and it says 2500. So my modification succeeded, unfortunately.

    So how do I delete it? Do I set increaseuserva to 8000?
    bcdedit /deletevalue increaseuserva

    If not working... post bcdedit /enum all output!
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  5. Posts : 3
    Windows 7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Great! it worked, it doesn,t appear anymore when I input bcdedit/enum all and my memory allocation looks to have returned to normal in the task manager.

    Thank you for your help!
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