Non-responding programs with 50% memory being used

[sash1803]

Does anyone know what could cause programs to become responsive and slow down, even though my memory usage is only about 50%?

I have an i5-2430 @ 2.0Ghz, 5GB RAM, win7 64bit, AMD Radeon 6650M 2.0GB RAM graphics card.

My machine slows down when i try to run 2 specific programs simultaneously, viz. pokerstars and holdem manager 2.
I've had a guy from the software company have a look and he's not sure what the problem is either.

Any ideas or suggestions would help a lot.
Thanks in advance

 

[smorizio]

Does anyone know what could cause programs to become responsive and slow down, even though my memory usage is only about 50%?

I have an i5-2430 @ 2.0Ghz, 5GB RAM, win7 64bit, AMD Radeon 6650M 2.0GB RAM graphics card.

My machine slows down when i try to run 2 specific programs simultaneously, viz. pokerstars and holdem manager 2.
I've had a guy from the software company have a look and he's not sure what the problem is either.

Any ideas or suggestions would help a lot.
Thanks in advance

start will a malware scan and an good anti virus scan. also check that your not running two anti virus at the same time. alos run a hijackthis and post the log files up here.

 

[rgd1101]

forget about memory usage, what about cpu usage?

 

[sash1803]

forget about memory usage, what about cpu usage?

cpu usage is under 10% normally, but when the programs become non-responsive then it'd close to 20% and above

 

[rgd1101]

is the hard drive activity going crazy? 20% on each core? or 80% on core.


Look like it used to only run on 1-core. update to latest version?
http://forums.holdemmanager.com/feature-requests-feedback/178761-unusable-too-slow-one-cpu-core.html

 

[chugot9218]

I am trying to figure out how you got to 5gb of RAM... can you enlighten me?

 

[rgd1101]

Reading their performance suggestion, it look like it hard disk speed.
http://hm2faq.holdemmanager.com/questions/1142/Holdem+Manager+2+Performance+%26+Speed+Modifications

 

[sash1803]

start will a malware scan and an good anti virus scan. also check that your not running two anti virus at the same time. alos run a hijackthis and post the log files up here.

In the process of doing that, will upload info later

 

[sash1803]

I am trying to figure out how you got to 5gb of RAM... can you enlighten me?

came standard on my laptop, acer aspire 7750G

 

[sash1803]

Reading their performance suggestion, it look like it hard disk speed.
http://hm2faq.holdemmanager.com/questions/1142/Holdem+Manager+2+Performance+%26+Speed+Modifications

well what's most annoying is that it was working fine until a few days ago, then it just became impossible to run both program simultaneously. Individually they work fine. The guy that i spoke to advised that I get an ssd, however he said that it isn't a requirement

 

[chugot9218]

Can you install HWMonitor or a program to show the information about your RAM? You are sure it came standard with 5gb? I just do not know how they got there with a dual channel set up... having multiple programs open relies on the RAM, I would guess the problem is there.

 

[sash1803]

Can you install HWMonitor or a program to show the information about your RAM? You are sure it came standard with 5gb? I just do not know how they got there with a dual channel set up... having multiple programs open relies on the RAM, I would guess the problem is there.

I've never used it before, what info do you want to know? Yeah it's def 5GB, it came standard and I haven't changed anything

 

[smorizio]

if there no virus and malware. boot into safe mode use msconfig go under the start up tab and turn everything off but your anti virus and see if it a program that starting up at start up that could be damaged.

 

[chugot9218]

Well, the MOBO has 4 RAM slots and I wanted to see what value each stick was showing as, I did not think they made sticks of RAM in non-whole intervals (if you had 4 sticks they would have to be 1.25GB and if you had 2 stick they would be 2.5GB each). This makes me think the RAM is reporting its stats incorrectly and could be indicative of a problem with one or more of the sticks.

 

[rgd1101]

run defrag, clear tmp file.