- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Aj6627
How much RAM do you have at the moment?1 GB, at the moment. It's fine for almost everything I do. But when I try to run games (like H2V or Gears of Windows), I have to disable so many things, and close so many programs. Though, older games like H1PC run fun, it just won't cut it for the newer, more hardware intensive games.
I always find myself on the Task Manager, looking for processes/programs that suck up the most RAM, and I kill them before getting on a game. When I play, I notice my RAM is being pushed to the limit, and I'm just right under sucking up 1 GB of total RAM (which is exactly how much I have). When I played H2V without disabled visual themes, and killing a BUNCH of programs, the game would take forever to load. And when I played campaign, it'd be at like 1 FPS. Then I tried killing a bunch of programs and disabled visual themes, and I had enough to play the game quite well. And regardless of that, when I alt+tab out, it takes me about a minute before I can do anything because my system is fighting over RAM with H2V. Which can usually be fixed by going back in H2V, and alt+tabbing out, and it works fine/fast. Not sure why it does that. On XP, I could alt+tab out, and my OS would run just fine.
Though, on XP, when I got H2V working, I could just double click that icon, and not have to have a second thought about RAM. And I remember trying to play HL2 Ep.1, and it ran like CRAP. Framerate hiccups everywhere, slow... and unbearable. On XP, buttery-smooth =]
That's not to say Vista is a bad OS, per se... but things like that can get irritating. Though, most of my problems are probably from a lack of RAM. I guess I need 2 GB to run game son this computer =[