So who wants to enlighten me on this subject now? I have been hearing it mentioned alot lately, seems people are using it alot and it seems to help alot also...never heard of it tell this board though.
I feel sooo obsolete...
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...what?
title Virtual Memo
It's a spot on your hard drive reserved by Windows to act as Memory when you system memory is being overused.
Lol my bad I figured anyone who understood what the title meant knew what I was talking about. It is virtual Memory in your PC. This could be a stupid question but I am quite sure I have never heard of it before.
Sorry about that confusion though.
Sorry about that confusion though.
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how would i go about makeing this virtual memory stuff? and how much does it really help?
**EDIT** The link above shows how to adjust Win98, this is for WinXP.
I kinda hate to put this on here cause Im not an MSCE or anything, but I've read this and tried it on other games and it helped... just remember to create a wordpad document and copy this and the original values over to it in case it doesnt help or cuases more problems...
L.click Start menu> R.click mycomputer> L.click properties> L.click Advanced tab> L.click Settings under Performance> L.click Advanced tab> Write down origianal values in case this doesnt help> L.click Change under Virtual memory> L.click Custom Size> Set BOTH Intial size and Max size to EXACTLY 1.5x the current amount of RAM you have.
If I were doing this now, having 768MB RAM, I would change both settings to 1152 (768 x 1.5).
Edited, Sat Nov 20 20:15:22 2004 by DeMiUrGe
I kinda hate to put this on here cause Im not an MSCE or anything, but I've read this and tried it on other games and it helped... just remember to create a wordpad document and copy this and the original values over to it in case it doesnt help or cuases more problems...
L.click Start menu> R.click mycomputer> L.click properties> L.click Advanced tab> L.click Settings under Performance> L.click Advanced tab> Write down origianal values in case this doesnt help> L.click Change under Virtual memory> L.click Custom Size> Set BOTH Intial size and Max size to EXACTLY 1.5x the current amount of RAM you have.
If I were doing this now, having 768MB RAM, I would change both settings to 1152 (768 x 1.5).
Edited, Sat Nov 20 20:15:22 2004 by DeMiUrGe
Virtual Memory
You have a certain amount of RAM that the computer uses to store things that have been accessed by the computer recently or will soon be accessed. RAM is fairly fast, not as fast as cache memory and much faster than hard drive access. So say you have 512 MB of RAM. EQ2 can use that RAM to store things that it will access a lot.
Virtual Memory is hard drive space. When the RAM is full, things that arn't used as often get swapped out onto the hard drive. The computer acts like this is normal RAM in a way, only it is much slower to access. So if you have your full 512 in use, its going to put some stuff on the hard drive that isn't essential to the current running process. But, when that needs to be accessed, it will swap it out with something else in RAM.
Thus, because hard drive speeds are so slow, you'll get lots of slowdown if it must do that a lot. The mroe RAM you have, the faster the computer can access what it needs, the faster your computer will run. Assuming nothing else is slowing it down more than the current RAM.
In Windows XP you can access Virtual Memory options from the My Computer Properties -> Advanced -> Performance -> Advanced. Don't really worry about it, though. The computer will handle it on its own, really.
You have a certain amount of RAM that the computer uses to store things that have been accessed by the computer recently or will soon be accessed. RAM is fairly fast, not as fast as cache memory and much faster than hard drive access. So say you have 512 MB of RAM. EQ2 can use that RAM to store things that it will access a lot.
Virtual Memory is hard drive space. When the RAM is full, things that arn't used as often get swapped out onto the hard drive. The computer acts like this is normal RAM in a way, only it is much slower to access. So if you have your full 512 in use, its going to put some stuff on the hard drive that isn't essential to the current running process. But, when that needs to be accessed, it will swap it out with something else in RAM.
Thus, because hard drive speeds are so slow, you'll get lots of slowdown if it must do that a lot. The mroe RAM you have, the faster the computer can access what it needs, the faster your computer will run. Assuming nothing else is slowing it down more than the current RAM.
In Windows XP you can access Virtual Memory options from the My Computer Properties -> Advanced -> Performance -> Advanced. Don't really worry about it, though. The computer will handle it on its own, really.
DeMiUrGe wrote:
**EDIT** The link above shows how to adjust Win98, this is for WinXP.
My apologies... Virtual Memory for XP
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is there one for win 2000? or just 98 and xp?
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is there one for win 2000? or just 98 and xp?
Win2k is basically similar to XP.
Also, do not set it too high, Windows has to use some RAM and calculation power to track and access Virtual Memory. 1.5 x the amount of RAM is recommended. However, XP usually does a fairly good job of managing Virtual Memory automatically.
Ideally you should be able to test it by benchmarking with it on auto and on manual. Does EQ2 have a framerate display command?
I have a gig of ram, and I find performance in most apps to be better with virtually memory completely disabled. Gives a very nice snappy feel to everything.
I've gotten the out of memory crashes in EQ2, though, so I tried turning it on. It hasn't seem to make any difference.
You pretty much need to have a gig of ram for EQ2. It's possible with less.. but it's much more playable with a gig or more.
I've gotten the out of memory crashes in EQ2, though, so I tried turning it on. It hasn't seem to make any difference.
You pretty much need to have a gig of ram for EQ2. It's possible with less.. but it's much more playable with a gig or more.
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