Memory FPS Choke and Lagg

[WoRm5406]

Lets pass some ideas back and forth guys....

I have an 2.0g Asus mohter board and I HAD 512m memory.

I recently (yesterday) upgraded to 2g memory and Now I am running 100 FPS stead compared to my 30 steady with jumps to 50-70...

Memory really does affect your machine and performance.

I am not saying go out and get 2 gigs.... But next time you get a chance.. Launch your game... (WOW/CZ/CS/CSS) and conenct to the server your normally do... Select a team play a few rounds... when you DIE.. ALT+TAB (DONT CLOSE THE GAME OUT)

Go to the taskbar and right click in an empty space and bring up task mamanger... (Yes there are numerous ways to bring this up ... I know..)

Under the performance tab... Look at ytour memory in the bottom right corner...Look at the Physicial Memory and Kernel Memory...

If the kernel memory is over the physical memory... you have a LARGE problem...

Your computer is now having to write things to disk, isntead of leaving them in memory... All this disk writting is realyl slowing you and your game(s) down...

If you have 512.. I would think of adding another 512....

 

[Casualty]

good post worm, alot of people under-estimate RAM, but its a extremely important factor in performance

i was jsut running sandra benchmarks on my system last night, and i found that my current memory onlyhas like 1700 MB/s of bandwidth its jsut pc2100 though, soon ill ahve pc3200 possibly 4000 if itll work with my setup...

so for anyone who upgrades the memory in their PC make sure you buy the fastest RAM you can.... look at yrou pc's manual or go online to find what it will support.

GG HF

 

[Casualty]

also i ahve a question about memory(hinted at above)

my bios doenst seem to have a setting above ddr400(pc3200) however i see people using it with athlon 64's ....btw i want to use pc4000 if itll be supported

im currently setup with the following:

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ san diego core
asus A8V deluxe
768 MB pc2100
ati radeon 9800 pro 128
soundblaster live 5.1

 

[slick]

yes u can

 

[stoned_MONKee]

I think i might fall into the category of big trouble on this one, but I have to go to my techno-geek friends house to deal with this one. I would love to get more then my steady 30 fps with drops to 15 and 20 lol.

 

[eng26dcfd]

I put in a new video card and now my ping and choke are sky high. I know you computer fags :lol: keep saying the card won't cause this but it didn't happen till I put it in. WTF

 

[DiLLa]

did u see if it has new updates for the drivers? and did you chnge ur cl_updaterate and cl_cmdrate?

 

[eng26dcfd]

rates are the same as usual