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Posted by Wild Card on Mon Nov 29th at 10:44pm 2004

So would it be better if I got a second stick of 512mb RAM and removed the page file from my computer? Im already getting close to the rim of my 80gb hard drive, and I just bought it about 6 months ago or so. [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Mon Nov 29th at 11:24pm 2004

? quoting scary_jeff
I like that explanation better.




WC, put all the ram you want in your computer, just DO NOT REMOVE THE PAGE FILES. You need them. Your computer will cease to function properly without them.

How large did you make VMM? Nevermind. Set it to 1024 beginning and 1024 ending and you'll be fine. [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Mon Nov 29th at 11:38pm 2004

Right now its 768. Between it and my hybernation file, Its a lot of dead space. Well, not really dead but you know. Unusable to me. [addsig]



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Posted by Gorbachev on Tue Nov 30th at 12:59am 2004

You will not be able to set your page file to off. It will still make one when it needs it, and playing HL2 with a Gig of RAM and a pagefile of 128MB still made Windows complain.
[addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Tue Nov 30th at 4:13am 2004

? quoting Gorbachev
You will not be able to set your page file to off. It will still make
one when it needs it, and playing HL2 with a Gig of RAM and a pagefile
of 128MB still made Windows complain.



Yes, because normally running all those applications (that your computer runs) takes up about 400Mb (generally on gamers computers), all of that needs to be stored elsewear while something more important is running. (ever wonder why it takes awhile to alt + tab out of a game?)

But yes, you can't kill the page file (which I said in the beginning). However, you have the ability to not create that partition in Linux (which you already experiences, WC).


Windows has whined a couple times while I was playing HL2 about VM size. Mine was set to about a gig. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Dec 1st at 11:23am 2004

i cannot believe that just one comment about temporarily turning off your virtual memory could spark so much debate

i also found out that if you have more than one drive, its best to put all your virtual memory onto your least used drive.

i have two drives, one is partitioned, so it looks like 3 drives.. i have my virtual memory one the second drive on the 1st partition. seems to be working AOK.

[addsig]



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Posted by Thylacine on Wed Dec 1st at 3:48pm 2004

Your original description of the problem made me think you probably have a worm?

I had a similar problem about 6 months ago, after downloading like 6 different virus scanners it ended up with Sophos (provided by my University) finding a worm.

Once that was taken care of I was good to go.

[addsig]



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Posted by Nickelplate on Wed Dec 1st at 3:57pm 2004

? quoting Wild Card
So would it be better if I got a second stick of 512mb RAM and removed the page file from my computer? Im already getting close to the rim of my 80gb hard drive, and I just bought it about 6 months ago or so.

Virtual Memory is a great thing. Always keep at least 3GB of it on your machine. Or put in an old 4.3 as a secondary drive and use the whole damn thing!

[addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Dec 2nd at 1:46am 2004

? quoting Thylacine
Your original description of the problem made me think you probably have a worm?

I had a similar problem about 6 months ago, after downloading like 6 different virus scanners it ended up with Sophos (provided by my University) finding a worm.

Once that was taken care of I was good to go.

I have AVG on my box, and it never picks up anything. I though perhaps its because it didnt see anything, so I took the drive for a NAV2k4 scan, nothing got picked up either.

[addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Thu Dec 2nd at 10:06am 2004

That's a very good plan, Orph. You can't do better than to have the swap file on a different drive.



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Posted by thursday- on Fri Dec 3rd at 3:23pm 2004

Tried running disk defragmenter on top of all these guys ideas?
[addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Fri Dec 3rd at 4:09pm 2004

All the time Well, disk keeper. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Fri Dec 3rd at 8:36pm 2004

I hardly ever defragment my hard drive. The fragmentation is never over 5%, and this is normally due to one crazy file that has split itself into a thousand parts. Also, many of the fragmented files are too big for the foolish defragmentation tool to rearrange (for some reason).



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Posted by Junkyard God on Fri Dec 3rd at 8:47pm 2004

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Ok, serious question guys. Im having performance issues, be it with Half-Life 2, Hammer (for HL2) UT2k4, etc.

Hardware:

Athlon XP 2500
512mb RAM PC2700
NF7-S mobo
Seagate 80gb 8mb cache SATA

You know the specs lol

Software:
Aston Windows Shell replacement
AVG anti-virus
MSN 7.0 BETA
Limewire
winAMP
gmail notifer
VHE for HL2

Should I get a component upgrade (I was thinking adding 512RAM) or should I scrap some software, notably having limewire in background when I dont need it and the Aston Shell.

Keep in my my budget is VERY tight. I have 100$ in my account, I get 250$ every 2-weeks, and I have to fly once a month (150$)




STRANGE ,
i got:
amd athlon 1200 mhz
geforce 2 mx 64mb
256 mb SDram
win ME
and 40 GB hard disk

my hl2 runs normal on low settings and css runs on low settings with shders on high with 50 fps
so i think theres something wrong with you pc, maybe viruses etc. ? spyware?

only hl2 hammer crahses coz i lack win XP, but tomorrow that ends



[addsig]



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Posted by Naklajat on Sat Dec 4th at 8:04am 2004

anyone know any good/free trojan removers? tds-3 just expired on my box.
[addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sat Dec 4th at 9:16am 2004

? quoting scary_jeff
I hardly ever defragment my hard drive. The fragmentation is never over 5%, and this is normally due to one crazy file that has split itself into a thousand parts. Also, many of the fragmented files are too big for the foolish defragmentation tool to rearrange (for some reason).


Hm, yes, win-defrag is rather useless. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Dec 4th at 10:56am 2004

? quoting Crono
? quoting scary_jeff
I hardly ever defragment my hard drive. The fragmentation is never over 5%, and this is normally due to one crazy file that has split itself into a thousand parts. Also, many of the fragmented files are too big for the foolish defragmentation tool to rearrange (for some reason).


Hm, yes, win-defrag is rather useless.

i thought so too, till i read about disabling the pagefile beforehand.

my files all lined up like ducks in a row afterward, and then i turned pagefile back on.

i will be doing this before every defrag from now on.

[addsig]




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