2 Gigs of RAM/Vista

**WileECyte** · 05-26-08, 10:05 AM

My machine idles at about 800 megs used and that's with Firefox, AVG, XFire, Steam and a plethora of other background tasks running.

**~~Cecil900~~** · 05-26-08, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by WileECyte

My machine idles at about 800 megs used and that's with Firefox, AVG, XFire, Steam and a plethora of other background tasks running.

Thats pretty good considering how much firefox uses.

**WileECyte** · 05-26-08, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by Cecil900

Thats pretty good considering how much firefox uses.

I've been running the Firefox 3 Beta/RC for a while now. MUCH lower memory utilization. With 4 tabs open, I'm only using about 65 megs.

**SapiensErus** · 05-26-08, 11:00 AM

2Gb should be sufficient. I have not seen an "out of RAM" message in a looooong time bcause of virtual memory. Did you get a warning about "Virtual Memory is low" or anything?

That is strange... my computer at work is Vista 64 with 2Gb and I played BF2 on it and run some pretty big productivity apps and I have never gotten a low memory error.

Really, it might not be as fast at loading and map changing as a machine with 4Gb, but it should not say you are out of RAM. really wierd man... dont know what to say...

**~~Cecil900~~** · 05-26-08, 11:20 AM

Does your GPU running shared memory with the CPU?

**money$$$$** · 05-26-08, 12:52 PM

Umm I couldnt tell you, dont know how to check.

**~~Cecil900~~** · 05-26-08, 12:58 PM

Ok put it this way, do you have a videocard with some type of GDDR RAM on it? I.E an 8800 GT with 512 MB GDDR3 RAM.

I think some laptops use shared memory.

**money$$$$** · 05-26-08, 08:30 PM

8800 GT 512

**~~Cecil900~~** · 05-26-08, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by money$$$$

8800 GT 512

Well i guess that eliminates that possibility.

**investigater** · 05-26-08, 09:24 PM

Hard to say.... Here is a screen shot of my 2142 running on a titan map, texas team forums and x-fire....

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http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...Untitled-4.jpg

Thats with a E6850 @ 3.0 and a 8800GTS 512MB slightly OC'd with 3 gigs of ballistix 2x's 1 gig and 2x's 512 sticks. You sure your mobo is running your ram at 800mhz and at 2.2 volts at what i think the norm is for ballistix? Check that and your timings.