RAM Help please! ! ! A bit peeved....

gooner045

agaveworm wrote: »

Hi.





No mickey taking please - It's a Dell Dimension Intel Celeron 2.8Ghz. XP Home.

No mickey taking here either, Athlon 1.0
The starting handle's got a hell of a kickback tho :cool:

[Deleted User]

I'm guessing your machine is about three or so years old?

Have you defragmented your hard drive(s) recently?

Have you updated your system drivers?

To be honest, it's not really worth disabling the page file. Defragment your hard drive and set the page file to be 1GB in size. It's not really worth jeopardising the stability of your system to disable it..

mdbarber

be_alright wrote: »

I'm guessing your machine is about three or so years old?

Have you defragmented your hard drive(s) recently?

Have you updated your system drivers?

To be honest, it's not really worth disabling the page file. Defragment your hard drive and set the page file to be 1GB in size. It's not really worth jeopardising the stability of your system to disable it..

not true very few programs need 4gb ram and hes using it for music and surfing
i haven't had swapfile enabled for 2 yrs now only 1 game objected

To disable swap file in xp
1 goto system properties either control panel or right click on my computer
2 click advanced tab
3 click performance settings
4 click advanced tab
5 third box down click "change"
6 select C: drive
7 click radio button for disable swapfile
8 click set, then ok and reboot

oh and yes swap file and virtual memory are same

agaveworm

be_alright wrote: »

...... and set the page file to be 1GB in size......

Page file what? C'mon, stop teasing...... please tell me how I do this

Cheers

[Deleted User]

mdbarber wrote: »

not true very few programs need 4gb ram and hes using it for music and surfing
i haven't had swapfile enabled for 2 yrs now only 1 game objected

True, but a lot of programs are designed to firstly reserve swapfile space and if not available to then fall back on large amounts of RAM to compensate.

I think there's more that can be done to improve the speed of the system than disabling the swap file, considering we don't know what the FSB of the RAM is, what else could be causing a bottleneck or the rest of the specification.

superscaper

gooner045 wrote: »

No mickey taking here either, Athlon 1.0
The starting handle's got a hell of a kickback tho :cool:

Yeah and the hamster that's spinning my hard disc is getting rather tired as well.

mdbarber

be_alright wrote: »

True, but a lot of programs are designed to firstly reserve swapfile space and if not available to then fall back on large amounts of RAM to compensate.

I think there's more that can be done to improve the speed of the system than disabling the swap file, considering we don't know what the FSB of the RAM is, what else could be causing a bottleneck or the rest of the specification.

The fsb or ram is irrelevent because it is 85% likely that processor has the slowest fsb of all the p4 series,
NO programs reserve swap file space, this file is exclusively accessed by windows you are confusing the swapfile with temporary files used by programs
pls people this is a very slow processor constantly accessing a 4Gb file, no need to go looking for reasons this system is crawling as of yet

[Deleted User]

mdbarber wrote: »

NO programs reserve swap file space, this file is exclusively accessed by windows you are confusing the swapfile with temporary files used by programs
pls people this is a very slow processor constantly accessing a 4Gb file, no need to go looking for reasons this system is crawling as of yet

No, I am not confusing the pagefile with temporary files that are generated by applications. Applications do use the swap file, Adobe Photoshop for example is one of the main applications that centres performance around the swap file and a lot of games follow the same principal for a variety of reasons.

agaveworm

:eek: What the.....

mdbarber

be_alright wrote: »

No, I am not confusing the pagefile with temporary files that are generated by applications. Applications do use the swap file, Adobe Photoshop for example is one of the main applications that centres performance around the swap file and a lot of games follow the same principal for a variety of reasons.

will u please stop, programs have no direct access to the swapfile and i run photoshop as well, as i said only 1 game in 2yrs objected, that was a bug and was fixed the next patch,
Photshop is a memory hungry beast but will still perform better with "real RAM" over swap file" please argue only on what you know to be fact