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  • The thing is, the memory allocated by AllocPhysicalPages is known as AWE memory, so it's not a misleading display, it's correct. AWE does not just mean the 32 bit memory extensions only.

    In fact, other way around, the 32 bit memory extensions (to use memory above 4GB) use the AWE memory allocation APIs

    Gail Shaw
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