My 2GB Kingston DDR2 800Mhz, PC2-4200 Problem.

[blurredman]

Hello there, I am new so excuse me.


Okay, here is my problem of the month.
It does start about game but it is hardware problem, so i ask your advice or solution.

I buy GTA IV last week and when install and use FPS is around 19-22 which is good enough for me for what my specification is.
Anywayyyss, either just driving around for a VERY long time or: playing a mission frame rate will drop below 10FPS and on most occasions 1FPS for no apparent reason (This also happens when i try to play multiplayer) until i restart PC

Now, i have found out that the problem is that the RAM is getting clogged up and therefore rolls over to pagefile thus reducing performence to below 10FPS...
Although however, i have read and found out my RAM is of sufficient taste of my machine. I can play all other games without this problem inc COD4, WAW etc
My system is:

Windows XP Professional - Service Pack 3
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2Ghz, CPU
Point of View nVidia GeForce 8600 GT - DDR2 - 512MB - Graphics
GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 - Mainboard

And my RAM is:

2GB Kingston DDR2 800Mhz, PC2-4200


I do not know what to do. Is there no software (i have already tried cacheboost which gives just little extra time) that can resolve this issue or must i buy say 4GB of ram, i must admit i did not choose perfessional RAM which i will choose next time but it shouldn't do this right?


Please reply, this is seriously annoying

Blurredman

 

[theAnimal]

GTA IV is very CPU dependent. If you're comfortable with OCing that will help a little, but a quad-core is almost required. Your video card is also very low-end. OCing might help a little there as well.

 

[blurredman]

GTA IV is very CPU dependent. If you're comfortable with OCing that will help a little, but a quad-core is almost required. Your video card is also very low-end. OCing might help a little there as well.

I know this game is very reliant on a machine i havent got. but the question to which i am looking for an answer is about the RAM..

 

[JDocs]

Well if your going into your page file then more RAM is needed. It most likely won't speed things up but it will prevent those massive slows due to using the page file.

PS: DDR2 800mhz is PC2-6400 not PC2-4200

 

[blurredman]

Well if your going into your page file then more RAM is needed. It most likely won't speed things up but it will prevent those massive slows due to using the page file.

PS: DDR2 800mhz is PC2-6400 not PC2-4200

lol sorry thanks

It does seem like I need more RAM but when i look at a programme which monitors my RAM, i have around 1400MB used by GTA therefore leaving 600MB and i do not see the problem, yet pagefile happens...

 

[blurredman]

Sounds like a windows issue?

First I would maybe download memtest86 and do a thorough test of your ram.

i did the floppy disc installation method and it said test passed...

 

[blurredman]

Is there any solution to this great problem, the recommendation of RAM for GTA4 is 2GB, of which i have..

If this is a Windows problem, how possibly can i fix this?