I recently built a new PC.. Here are the specs..
AMD Phenom II X4 945
8 GB RAM
MSI RADEON R4350 Graphics card
64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate
I normally don't game much on my PC and didn't build it to run best performance with the newest games.. But, out of curiosity I thought I'd try a few newer games to see how they ran.. Thats when I discovered a problem.
I installed Witcher 2, at the end of the installation or the start of the game it analysed my configuration and reported that I had 4 gigs of RAM.. Obviously thats not right so I was second guessing everything and reconfirming.. I know your limited to 4gb of ram with a 32-bit OS so I double checked and am indeed running Windows 64-bit OS. The system properties also show the 8gb of RAM. So, I figured it was probably an error on the games part. So, I started the game, which was horribly choppy, and then opened task manager to see what my performance looked like.. Thats were I got concerned.
This is what it showed -
Total : 8137
Cached : 4000
Available : 3958
Free : 21
I don't understand this.. Also, My memory graph is pegged at 4GB... It just seems like something is wrong. Like its only utilizing 4gb of RAM. Is there something in the BIOS I missed.. Hell, IT SHOWS 8GB of RAM! What gives.. Am I losing it?
AMD Phenom II X4 945
8 GB RAM
MSI RADEON R4350 Graphics card
64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate
I normally don't game much on my PC and didn't build it to run best performance with the newest games.. But, out of curiosity I thought I'd try a few newer games to see how they ran.. Thats when I discovered a problem.
I installed Witcher 2, at the end of the installation or the start of the game it analysed my configuration and reported that I had 4 gigs of RAM.. Obviously thats not right so I was second guessing everything and reconfirming.. I know your limited to 4gb of ram with a 32-bit OS so I double checked and am indeed running Windows 64-bit OS. The system properties also show the 8gb of RAM. So, I figured it was probably an error on the games part. So, I started the game, which was horribly choppy, and then opened task manager to see what my performance looked like.. Thats were I got concerned.
This is what it showed -
Total : 8137
Cached : 4000
Available : 3958
Free : 21
I don't understand this.. Also, My memory graph is pegged at 4GB... It just seems like something is wrong. Like its only utilizing 4gb of RAM. Is there something in the BIOS I missed.. Hell, IT SHOWS 8GB of RAM! What gives.. Am I losing it?