Thanks for responses.
Fabio just for clarities sake…this is not 32 bit Cubase on a 32 Bit OS. It is 32 bit Cubase on 64 bit OS.
“Cubase x86 is not LASA, if I’m not mistaken.” So it sees only 2GB ? If you could find out for sure that would be good to know. It does not appear to make sense though. If so why is this 32 bit Cubase project showing as 2.7 - 2.9 GB… mem usage in resource manager, it is still 2.1 GB now since I have culled the project soft synths and made them audio parts.
“The soundcard driver must be the same as the o/s rather than Cubase and as that’s already 64bit you are already running Layla 64bit drivers.” Thanks for confirming Grim. Seems counter intuitive though given PCI bus operates as 32 bit, but it must be the case.
I have an ASUS silent 5450 (1GB) here which I might try, but I did try a PCIe video card in there a few days ago .I had spare (ATI4550) and it did not make hardly any difference to the memory usage or the loss of GUIs.