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Millis
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Just recently whenever I play anything graphicaly intensive, or any game for that matter, the game just eats up my ram. (ie like 200MB) All of my drivers r up to date. And game updates d/l'd. Any ideas?
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l8r, Millis
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the game uses the memory...........
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I've seen battlefield use over 700mb of my memory
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Millis
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I know the game uses the memory, BUT, C&C General:Zero Hours using over 200MB, and BF:Vietnam using over 300MB, isn't that a litttle odd? I mean they running choppy as hell, but unreal 2k4 runs fine. it doesn't make any sense to me.
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l8r, Millis
AMD 1800 @ 2.1 GHz
512 MB PC2700
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Asus GF 4 Ti4200 128 mb
120 GB WD HDD (7200 RPM)
40 GB Samsung (7200 RPM)
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are you running them in software mode or hardware mode? i do know if your graphics card cannot handle them the cpu kicks in...or something to that effect
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Well if all of your video memory gets used up, it starts taking memory from the system up to the size you set your AGP apature for. Since he has a 128mb card I doubt that all of his video memory is being used up especially since he won't be able to run high aa/af with a GF4.
Honostly, another 512mb of memory would solve the problem. When I only had 512mb, some of my games would run choppy at first and then smooth out after a couple of minutes. Other than that, I'd recommend closing down anything you absolutely don't need running in the background when you play games. Also run adaware and search and destroy spybot if you haven't recently. I had a friend that had a spyware program on their computer taking over 32mb of memory alone and some processing power.
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PC #1: 35W 2400-M @ 2.6ghz | Abit NF7-S 2.0 | 1gig Corsair XMS 3200| Sapphire 9500np -> 9700 (360/295) | Creative Audigy 2 | 2x 37gb Raptors in RAID-0 | 2x WD 80gigs in RAID-0 | Sony DVD+/-RW | Sony 16x DVD | Sony 19" CRT | Asus TV Card | Logitech Z-680's | TT 480W Purepower PSU
PC #2: JIUHB 1700+ @ 2.2ghz | Epox 8RDA+ | 512mb Corsair TWINX 3200 | PNY GF4 ti4200 128mb | WD 60gig HD | Sony 52x CDRW
Lappy: Vaio GRT10014 | P4-M 2.2ghz | 5600go 64mb | 768mb RAM | 40gig HD | 16.1" UXGA
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yes skid is right man. you need to go to run and type in "msconfig" then a window shouldand there you can edit your start programs that are running in the back ground. alot of them progs eat up memory and once you turn all that unused crap off youl be seeing alot better performance.
peace perc,
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I just checked CS , hosting a server and playing with 20 bots , 6.5mb is that right lmfao !
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« Last Edit: May 02, 2004, 08:20:56 AM by LaCuNa »
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Millis
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Yeah I kicked around the idea of another 512mb of ram to juice it up a bit. And i already close non-essential programs and run ad removal stuff all the time. Guess i just need to get some new stuff . I needed an excuse to get the 6800u when it comes out anyway. Thx for the input guys.
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l8r, Millis
AMD 1800 @ 2.1 GHz
512 MB PC2700
Asus A7V333-x
Asus GF 4 Ti4200 128 mb
120 GB WD HDD (7200 RPM)
40 GB Samsung (7200 RPM)
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