What you don't know will kill you

Posted by BenRK on Oct. 12, 2006, 9:02 p.m.

As proven in Halo 2 when your trying to snipe and some one comes up behind you and KOs you instantly with a swing of their SMG. And also proven in my Virtual RAM, the subject of this blog.

As you may or may not know, my computer sucks beyond suck. It is a fricken game killer. Only 128MB of RAM? Go ahead, say it. My computer sucks. I openly admit it all the time, as proven by this blog. I recently (about half a month ago) learned that part of my hard drive could be used as RAM as well. I looked up some stuff, and I know it's slow, but compared to my current RAM, it would help.

Anyway, recently (earlyer today), I learned how to get into the virtual RAM and change it during my PC Support class, and you know what I was going to do. So, as soon as I was able to drive home, press the power button on my computer, eat dinner, watch the end of a show, and get back to my computer a while later, I got into the virtual RAM and set it from "REDICULESLY LOW!" to "OMG! 2GIGS OF RAM!". I have noticed some improvement, but games are still somewhat slow. Though I expect that is my video cards fault.

And now onto game maker news.

"There is no news tonight."

~BenRK

IT'S 2GIGS MAN! 2GIGS!

Comments

Kaz 18 years, 1 month ago

@ Mastermind + Biggerfish

I've download movies that are more than half the size of your hdd…

Darktech 18 years, 1 month ago

What you can't see can kill you…So your blog name can be right or wrong..

liquid 18 years, 1 month ago

HD videos I'm assuming?

And Ben I guess it is your RAM. My CPU is a 1.6GHz Sempron with an ATI 9600. I can run any game on atleast medium specs really. I need to upgrade for Gothic 3 though, I suggest picking up some RAM at newegg or something. It should help out with Game Maker stuff. If you have a Fry's near you, they usually have some nice deals on PC parts

NeutralReiddHotel 18 years, 1 month ago

Quote: Kaz
@ Mastermind + Biggerfish
That's wrong on so many levels, DELETE IT.

NeutralReiddHotel 18 years, 1 month ago

Quote: biggerfish
@ Mastermind;

I only have 4gb…

I actually have two hard drives, meaning I actually have 10GB. Woot.

Maxcore 18 years, 1 month ago

I would rather just keep my 1 gig, and then play my nintendo 64.

flashback 18 years, 1 month ago

Quote:

OH! And USBs can be set up as virtual RAM. You just have to have it plugged in and the drive installed, then you can select it from the list.
I know, I wasn't asking.

Stupid windows "support" people…

SleepinJohnnyFish 18 years, 1 month ago

I don't use a paging file on my computer. I turned it off since it actually improves performance to do so when you have as much ram as me.

OL 18 years, 1 month ago

^^^

Common misconception. Turning off the page file does not improve performance, it degrades it.

Quote:
Virtual Memory is always in use, even when the memory required by all running processes does not exceed the amount of RAM installed on the system.

Source: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html

Anyway, by ensuring you have a large page file set up, defrag your hard drive every now and then, remove excess running programs and services and do a bit of tweakage, your pc will run speedy.

I got a 133mhz,30mb ram, 2mb video running zippyer than a 2ghz machine in Windows.

BenRK 18 years, 1 month ago

Once I update my RAM and video card, I expect I will turn down my virtual RAM to save on hard drive space, but space is none of my concern right now. I'm the only one who uses this computer and I have 20+gigs of space available to me, so tell me why I should be worried with TONS of space left? Because I'm not, but defraging sounds like a good idea, and as for excess programs, sure, I'll take off that anti virus (sarcasm). But now, I have to see how well Sim City 4 will run.