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[srl50]

I ran out yesterday and gotta couple of RAM sticks. I had 1 gig, now I have 2.5 gigs. I haven't really seem a FPS increase just yet, though it does seem to run a little smoother to the eye. Now maybe I'll start the process of tweeking and see what happens. I know this has been an active topic here on the forum and just wanted to share my experience. Any thoughts welcome.

[srl50]

I ran out yesterday and gotta couple of RAM sticks. I had 1 gig, now I have 2.5 gigs. I haven't really seem a FPS increase just yet, though it does seem to run a little smoother to the eye. Now maybe I'll start the process of tweeking and see what happens. I know this has been an active topic here on the forum and just wanted to share my experience. Any thoughts welcome.

[SoK_ReTiCuLe]

WinXP Doesn't use more then 2 gigs of ram. Set your page file to about 1000 by 1000 for virtual memory. You won't get more Frames per second with extra ram, but you will have smoother gameplay. Also try searching on google for PCI-Latency tool. See if your devices such as video card if it's an AGP card is set to 32, if so change it to 64 for PCI latency and your sound card / IDE devices. The tool doesn't support PCi-Express.

Is your motherboard Dual channel DDR by the way?

[Forrester1975]

Well on the graphic side you need a better card if you want better graphics, but the building of the environment, the generating maps and so on rely on RAM, and thats were your extra gig come in handy. As I stated earlier, it seems GRAW uses up to 800 megs of ram, when you only have one gig it leaves 200 megs for windows, so you need to tweek stuf in order to keep the game running smooth. I had one issue with a crash, asked UBI about it, they told me to re-install, I thought hey my wife doesn't look, and doesn't notice, Ill put in some extra ram, and now the game runs a lot better! The holdup I'm left with is now my graphics card, but since I just bought this pc i will have to wait some time before I buy a new one. A better headset with a decent mic for teamspeak is still on my most wanted gadgets list. (ADSL just got upgraded to 4meg up one down, so that's no holdup anymore)

[DthDealer71]

Actually I think Windoze doesnt know what to do with more than 2.5 gig's of ram.

Either way 2gig's for a gaming system, is fine.

Now for a dedicated server thats different, bandwidth and speed.

DD

[Forrester1975]

For a dedi server I think the Internet speed is the biggest bottleneck. GR1 I played over the lan at home, I noticed that the things went slower, but that was a 10 mbit lan at that time. My old rig doesn't run GRAW so I cant try that, I guess you need a very fast internet account with goor uploading speeds to host a dedi. If it goes around my 4mb up 1 down I will give it a try.

[whatever007]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by srl50:
I ran out yesterday and gotta couple of RAM sticks. I had 1 gig, now I have 2.5 gigs. I haven't really seem a FPS increase just yet, though it does seem to run a little smoother to the eye. Now maybe I'll start the process of tweeking and see what happens. I know this has been an active topic here on the forum and just wanted to share my experience. Any thoughts welcome. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

well before install Memory Ram in your machine
you should know what kind of configurations
is supported in your motherboard

you can't just buy Memo Ram or any others
hardware and install without any knowledge
of your motherboard.

example:

if you have 4 slots for memo ram called dual channel memory " A and B "

possibility of configurations
in this case to intel desktop board
D975XBX

Configuration example 1

Channel A install 1 stick 1GB,533 MHz
Channel B install 1 stick 1GB,533 MHz

Configuration example 2

Channel A install 1 stick 256 MB,533 MHz
Channel B install 1 stick 256 MB,533 MHz

Configuration example 3

Channel A install 1 stick 256 MB,533 MHz
Channel B install 1 stick 512 MB,533 MHz

note all others memory configurations will
result in single channel memory operation
once again before install new hardware
in your machine make sure to know your
motherboard in order to understand what kind
of hardware and configurations
will run better in your machine.

my personal experience I install 4 gb
but because my motherboard memory configurations
do not support 1GB X 4 times my machine is not
running correctly in fact the configuration 2GB
1GB X 2 the machine is running more smoothly.

final advice:

motherboard maker like intel they do some
hardware configuration test with different
hardware if you build your own pc is a good
idea to purchase only hardware are been testing

for more info
Build your Own PC

Memory Configurator

[srl50]

Guys, some of you asked about my mobo and stuff concerning ram upgrades and things so I thought I'd share that with ya. Lemme know if I need to get more info. Does what I have seem to be configured properly? This comes from PitTest software:

System Board ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K8V-X Rev 2.00
Brand/Model AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Nominal Clock Speed 2000 MHz

RAM installed 2560 MB
Windows RAM 2559 MB
Total RAM slots 3
Available RAM slots 0
Max RAM module size 1024 MB
Memory Type 512+1024+1024;DIMM,SDRAM,|Synchronous;T16
Speed Rating 7591 MB/s (101% of 2364 similar)

Brand/Model NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
Colors 16 million
DirectX version 5.03.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
OpenGL version 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Acceleration options Enabled
Performance 118.06 MP/s (60% of 34 similar)

"Is your motherboard Dual channel DDR by the way?" How can I dind this out?

[JuDaH_SainT]

lol, ok this is right

Windows can see 3 gigs of ram, not 4,
it is better if u run 2 gigs instead of 2.5 or 3 so that u will be running in dual channel!!!!
get cpu-z and check to c if u are running in dual channel, to get better performance!!
memory will not increase ure fps seeing that memory is not gpu, ure gpu will do ure fps. memory will cause smoothness and faster load times!!


type in CPU-Z in google and download it, its great.

[MikeChandler]