Hi, I have been using 2 bg or ram sicne I built this system in 2006 (2 sticks of 1gb corsair xms2, 800ram)
and I noticed lately that while playing games like company of heores, and cc2 demo I have been going over the 2gb memory mark, so after i eneded a game i see a peak of lets say 2160mb or 2270mb ram used, and I did not see any new apps using the resources, I also uave to say that i think my task manager reports a bit off ram usage readings for my web browser...a bit odd, lets say it states that 20 or 40 mb's used for ie, but when i look at teh graph i can see a clear increase in ram used by a 100 or more, so something is fishy...i checked for viruses and such...nothign found. and I also use peer guardian, and spybot, with northons security package(antivirus, and internet security) ...to be tad safer,
what ingame options do dramaically increase use of ram? i know the textures, but anything else? somethign that i could live without and wouldnt see much difference, but does use up lots of ram?
Because of this I was thinking about geting more ram....but lately the 2x 512 is almost same in price as a 2x1 gb...but im using win xp...and i heard that 4bg is not going to work with a 32bit os.....so would there be any point in geting aditional 2bg or ram? will the pc not work at all or just utilize only 3 gb out of 4?.....got out of the loop with hardware a while ago
my specs : e6600, 2900xt (512), 2gb corsair ram, asus p5w dx deluxe, sync master 226BW monitor
Thank You for replys.
and I noticed lately that while playing games like company of heores, and cc2 demo I have been going over the 2gb memory mark, so after i eneded a game i see a peak of lets say 2160mb or 2270mb ram used, and I did not see any new apps using the resources, I also uave to say that i think my task manager reports a bit off ram usage readings for my web browser...a bit odd, lets say it states that 20 or 40 mb's used for ie, but when i look at teh graph i can see a clear increase in ram used by a 100 or more, so something is fishy...i checked for viruses and such...nothign found. and I also use peer guardian, and spybot, with northons security package(antivirus, and internet security) ...to be tad safer,
what ingame options do dramaically increase use of ram? i know the textures, but anything else? somethign that i could live without and wouldnt see much difference, but does use up lots of ram?
Because of this I was thinking about geting more ram....but lately the 2x 512 is almost same in price as a 2x1 gb...but im using win xp...and i heard that 4bg is not going to work with a 32bit os.....so would there be any point in geting aditional 2bg or ram? will the pc not work at all or just utilize only 3 gb out of 4?.....got out of the loop with hardware a while ago
my specs : e6600, 2900xt (512), 2gb corsair ram, asus p5w dx deluxe, sync master 226BW monitor
Thank You for replys.