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Tgdrysix:
You haven't mentioned what type of computer you have, and what type of video card. That info would also help us help you.
AMD Athlon(tm) 64x2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
2.01 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB PCI Express x 16
Window XP (SP2) Home Edition 2000
This computer was home built by a friend of my daughter's.....he recommended the parts....I ordered them and he put it together for me.....I'm thinking of increasing the RAM to 2.00 GB.....maybe that might help.
So in your case it may cause a bit of lag in the game, and you may have to compensate by turning down some of the graphic settings, starting with shadows and reflections. You may also have to lower the view distances so the card doesn't have to work as hard drawing all that background stuff
Well that pretty much sucks.....I had better options running it on my old computer with my GeForce 5700 which blew up....Tgdry6
ZephyrZodiac:
How much available RAM do you have after the game has been running for a couple of hours? Also, how big is your Paging file. With 1GB of RAM you can increase that with no probs to 2048 (exactly) maximum, even though windows says 1.5GB. You can free up RAM by getting rid of non essential start-up programs too.
Tgdrysix:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 June 14, 03:16:51
How much available RAM do you have after the game has been running for a couple of hours? Also, how big is your Paging file. With 1GB of RAM you can increase that with no probs to 2048 (exactly) maximum, even though windows says 1.5GB. You can free up RAM by getting rid of non essential start-up programs too.
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Unfortunately it rarely lets me run it for that long....continously that is without it rebooting unless I'm just building stuff or redecorating....would that count? If so how do I check this available RAM? Don't know anything about the Paging File.....I read a thread on it but unfortunately could make heads or tails out of what the heck it was referring to.....I'm hesistant to mess with stuff that although seems uncomplicated to some.....ALWAYS for me turns out to be more that what it seems..... :-\....I've mess up my compute once already trying to do what was suppose to be simple and had to have someone come and fix my screw-up..... :-[.....learned my lesson......Oh and thanks for the suggestions.....keeping my fingers crossed that I can find a solution......Tgdrysix
ZephyrZodiac:
To find out how much available RAM you have at any time, go to the desktop leaving your game idling, then press control/alt/deleteand Windows Task Manager will appear. Click on Performance, and you will see 2 graphs. The top one shows you how hard your processor is working, the second shows houw much RAM you are using, and by subtraction from 1024 (1GB) you can find how much you have available. If it is less than 50 - 100 MB then your game will be extremely slow and choppy and if your paging file is small and you frequently get messages saying the windows is increasing the paging file, then you have nothing to fall back on and this could lead to your game crashing. The trouble is, that although Windows increases the size of your paging file, it's not permanent, and next time you play the problem will reoccur. There is an excellent article at SimWardrobe (Paladin's Place) which is very easy to understand, which explains how to cut out some of the many programs that insist on running at start-up, and really don't need to. The article also tells you how to make a non-dynamic paging file, which, although it made a tremendous difference to my PC when I did it, it may not be the best thing for you if you have problems with technical stuff. However, it does show you how to get to the option to change your paging file and once you have read through the article you will probably understand a little of how it works, then you can simply increase the upper limit to 2048 and see if that helps.
Tgdrysix:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 June 14, 12:34:07
To find out how much available RAM you have at any time, go to the desktop leaving your game idling, then press control/alt/deleteand Windows Task Manager will appear. Click on Performance, and you will see 2 graphs. The top one shows you how hard your processor is working, the second shows houw much RAM you are using, and by subtraction from 1024 (1GB) you can find how much you have available. If it is less than 50 - 100 MB then your game will be extremely slow and choppy and if your paging file is small and you frequently get messages saying the windows is increasing the paging file, then you have nothing to fall back on and this could lead to your game crashing. The trouble is, that although Windows increases the size of your paging file, it's not permanent, and next time you play the problem will reoccur. There is an excellent article at SimWardrobe (Paladin's Place) which is very easy to understand, which explains how to cut out some of the many programs that insist on running at start-up, and really don't need to. The article also tells you how to make a non-dynamic paging file, which, although it made a tremendous difference to my PC when I did it, it may not be the best thing for you if you have problems with technical stuff. However, it does show you how to get to the option to change your paging file and once you have read through the article you will probably understand a little of how it works, then you can simply increase the upper limit to 2048 and see if that helps.
Thanks will "dash" over there and see what I can see.....Tgdrysix
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