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 Posted: Wed, 19th Oct 2005 02:19 Post subject: FEAR....constant hard drive issue...causes stutters...help |
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I am running a P4 with an x800 Pro ....512 RAM
I am running FEAR with damon tools and the virtual drive hider....
The install went fine....when I play the game though....I get slow downs a lot and I can hear/see my hard drive light on almost constantly. In fact, when ever it slows down...I see the hard drive running.
What tweaks/settings can I run to play this game? I already lowered shadows to medium and resol to 1024. I don't know what computer/video card settings are...should I mess with them? I also get an occasion message that my virtual memory is low. Never seen that before.
I have run Doom 3, HF2, Fable...etc. without any problems.
Please help.
thanks
Nit
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Jenni
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Oct 2005 03:02 Post subject: |
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More memory tbh. The pc is accessing virtual mem.
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Oct 2005 03:56 Post subject: |
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So I should buy more memory? There are no settings to fix it? Weird...Doom 3, HL2....neither had any problems.
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Oct 2005 04:38 Post subject: |
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I tend to turn my VM off, then it is forced to use the RAM, but I have 2gb 3200, so I guess I can do that without worrying :\.. maybe try it?
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Oct 2005 05:08 Post subject: |
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| Nittany wrote: | | So I should buy more memory? There are no settings to fix it? Weird...Doom 3, HL2....neither had any problems. |
Try playing BF2 with 512MB. Just spend the $70 or whatever it is for another stick. Ain't no thang. |
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Oct 2005 10:38 Post subject: |
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I heard the new patch fixes some of the problems with fear.
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Jenni
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Oct 2005 11:53 Post subject: |
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That's just the problem Si. Accessing virtual memory if far slower and will cause stuttering because of the hard drive access. Increasing virtual memory will not help.
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Oct 2005 15:07 Post subject: |
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| Jenni wrote: | | That's just the problem Si. Accessing virtual memory if far slower and will cause stuttering because of the hard drive access. Increasing virtual memory will not help. |
Its prob the HD acsece time some HD r better 4 big file tracefers and some r good 4 small have u ran a defrag on the HD since u have installed the game also have u got n e spyware or anti virus software runnin this corzed some probs with my pc at 1st and i have........
>aBit nforce 8 ultra mobo >AMD 3000 xp 64bit>1Gb of ram>256Mb GPU> and 320GB HD
ps like i sed b4 if u can set the slave with more v memory if u have 2 HD
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Oct 2005 05:16 Post subject: |
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I just ordered another 512 megs...that will bring me up to over 1 GIG RAM. I hope that will help....I will know by Friday.
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Thu, 20th Oct 2005 07:13 Post subject: |
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| Nittany wrote: | | I just ordered another 512 megs...that will bring me up to over 1 GIG RAM. I hope that will help....I will know by Friday. |
Ordered?
Go to ur closest cpu store and buy it...better than waiting and paying for s/h... |
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gospel
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