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quickmana :
3326 (system) + 1024 (video) = 4350 (Total)
Vista x32 only supports 4096, so you are wasting 254 MB of precious ram for not having vista x64 edition.
If you give a gig to vista and the programs that you're running, that leaves Crysis with only 2 gigs system memory, which should work but is undesirable.
If the game plays fine for a while and then slows down, you might have a heat problem. Also, you might have malware or broken software that is eating ram, or even something as simple as a disk with errors in the pagefile.
From Task Manager (Ctrl + alt + del), click "Performance" tab. Click (Admin) Resource Monitor. How many Memory faults / second are you getting? If this number is 300+, you need more ram. On my system with 8 gigs of ram, this number is usually less than 10.
Note: a "Memory Fault" is not an error. I know it's a dumb name.
Vista x32 only supports 4096, so you are wasting 254 MB of precious ram for not having vista x64 edition.
If you give a gig to vista and the programs that you're running, that leaves Crysis with only 2 gigs system memory, which should work but is undesirable.
If the game plays fine for a while and then slows down, you might have a heat problem. Also, you might have malware or broken software that is eating ram, or even something as simple as a disk with errors in the pagefile.
From Task Manager (Ctrl + alt + del), click "Performance" tab. Click (Admin) Resource Monitor. How many Memory faults / second are you getting? If this number is 300+, you need more ram. On my system with 8 gigs of ram, this number is usually less than 10.
Note: a "Memory Fault" is not an error. I know it's a dumb name.
Epic Fail
3326 is what is available to the system according to windows. Its already allocated addressing space for his video ram and other system devices. So hes actually missing out on 4096 - 3326 = 770 MB of RAM. Not enuf to justify a move to x64, and your pathetic 254MB argument is even worse.