memory leak issue fixed on my comp.Follow

I got a Pceleron, 1gb of ram and nvidia fx 5200 pc and the memory leak was eating me alive after 3-4 hours. What i did was download freeram xp pro 1.40 and set it on auto while i play and it works, went through less trouble than you did 2 =P

So basically you moved your page file onto your gaming partition? A question for you.

I didn't realize that Windows would let it be on any other drive than C. I'll look into this for myself, but you may know the answer off hand. What if you're using a different drive completely? I have a 40 GB drive I boot Windows off of, and a 160 GB (2 RAIDed drives) that I use for everything else, itself partitioned into 2 drives (one for EQ2 / WoW and the other for storage / other games). Can the page file reside on a different physical drive than Windows does?

Basically, from what I can tell, you move the page file physically closer to your EQ2 install so the heads and plates within your hard drive are moving less. It sounds plausable... Perhaps I'll try this when I get home tonight.

Lew... to answer your question here is some info for you. Hope this helps you out, but yes you can put it on a different drive. The info below shows you what are the best result by moving the swap file.


If anything, create (preferably on a separate partition), a swap space of constant size. For example, select Custom Size and place 1000 in "Initial" and 1000 in "Maximum" Size boxes, then click Set Button. This will reduce the amount of work needed to dynamically resize the page file, usually when you need it most.

Some deffinitions need to be explained:

Physical RAM ~ The amount of Memory installed on a system. Physical RAM is "way" faster than a "swap file" or "swap space."

Swap File ~ The file that is located on your hard drive that "acts" like Physical RAM but is way slower.

Virtual Memory ~ The name used for the sum of Physical RAM and the Swap File. In other words: Physical RAM + Swap File = Virtual Memory. You cannot "disable" Virtual Memory even if you disable the Swap File. Meaning, 2 GB RAM + 0 MB Swap File = 2 GB Virtual Memory.

From Fastest to Slowest, these are the configuration you can try:

* No swap file at all. Some software may fail. You also need "much" memory to do this. Greater than 512 MB, but I recommend 2 GB.
* A static swap file on a separate hard drive (and preferably, controller) from Windows and frequently accessed data.
* A dynamic swap file on a separate hard drive (and preferably, controller) from Windows and frequently accessed data.
* A static swap file on a separate partition, but on the same physical hard drive as Windows.
* A dynamic swap file on a separate partition, but on the same physical hard drive as Windows.
* The Default: A dynamic swap file on the same partition and physical hard drive (usually C:) as Windows.

Many factors affect performance of the I/O and Hard Drive system. Namely, "where" on the drive the particular swap partition is located, as well as fragmentation of the swap file itself.

What I have done to deal with the mem leak issue was ;
1. Went from 512 (256x2 dual chan pc3200) to 1 gig ( 512x2 dual chan pc3200 $129)
2. Changed page files to static ( min=max)
3. Play in windowed mode
4. Defrag weekly

I used to have to restart every 2 hours, especially when zoning between city zones often, but now my zone load times have remained constant after even 2hrs of playing.