How can I compare big files under Windows? [closed]

What about just using fc or comp?

Both are included in Windows and should have no problems handling large files. In fact, 1 GiB is actually a pretty small file.

My (ASCII) files were each about 1.2 GB.

I tried:

• NotePad++
• MultiEdit
• Beyond Compare 3
• ExamDiff Pro
• DiffMerge
• WinMerge and they all failed (couldn't load the file or crashed)

The one that worked for me at the end was ... PilotEdit x64 6.2.0.

It took some time to load each file and even more to do the comparison, but once it was done, it worked perfectly fine and just the way I had seen it in MultiEdit and NotePad++ before. Jumped between diff blocks, etc.