Will EU4 be large address aware?

[Suedeshoes]

See subject. If you don't know what this is, basically it allows 32-bit programs to see and use more than 2 GBs of RAM.

A handful of mods needed a LAA .exe to not crash on startup by running out of memory. Seeing as how EU3 didn't seem to gain any instability or bugs from just making it LAA, would it be possible to just have the vanilla game executable be large address aware by default?

 

[Illanair]

CK2 has been LAA for a long time now as far as I recall - And even if it wasn't you can do it in a single quick step yourself.

would it be possible to just have the vanilla game executable be large address aware by default?

This part I don't understand - Why would it have more than one executable file (excluding the launcher of course)

 

[Suedeshoes]

This part I don't understand - Why would it have more than one executable file (excluding the launcher of course)

It has one. There's the launcher and the game executable. Sorry if that was confusing.

Problem with not having the game executable LAA by default is that enabling LAA changes the checksum, and with EU3 that meant either remembering that you made that change or reinstalling.

 

[Illanair]

Hmm... true enough.