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4G memory on Windows XP
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You really haven't provided enough information to give an answer, so I'll guess.
Are you running Windows in a VM, like VMWare Fusion? The VM cannot utilize all your Mac's memory since enough memory has to be allocated to the Mac OS to run. In Fusion, you can set how much memory is used by Windows. Ditto for Parallels. But if you give it too much then memory swapping to disk will occur and everything will get very slow.
Are you running Windows in a VM, like VMWare Fusion? The VM cannot utilize all your Mac's memory since enough memory has to be allocated to the Mac OS to run. In Fusion, you can set how much memory is used by Windows. Ditto for Parallels. But if you give it too much then memory swapping to disk will occur and everything will get very slow.
Windows XP is a 32-bit OS that requires a BIOS change to use 4GB of memory on a PC. I'm not familiar as to how this is done on a Mac, but this may be your issue.
closer to 3.1 or 3.3 or something... but that's total memory. If it's 3.3 and the video card is using 512mb's, than you only have 2.8gb. Does that help?