1.12gb Of Ram

[Xanex]

All these tweak progs are bodge jobs anyway, they use shortcuts that are just lame to optimise stuff.

You wont notice much improovement in normal applications but try running some games.

AvP2 and Everquest love it with no page file since it means the hdd has to do less work and the ram is way faster than the hhd currently.

You only really need to use the pagefile when you run outta ram but windows likes to page stuff to hdd even when there is plenty of free ram and since no general use programs require 1gig of ram there is no need for a page file.

it will also increase the life of ur hdd since its doing less work and by writing to the same section of disc over and over will cause degredation

Xan

[Billy_Dean]

You should try running them in Ramdrives.

[clocker]

Originally posted by Billy_Dean@22 October 2003 - 06:43
You should try running them in Ramdrives.

Elucidate please.

What programs set up a ram drive and what is the advantage.

[Billy_Dean]

Actually, Clocker, I don't know if you can still do it, I'll need to research. We once used a driver, Ramdrive.sys, to load progs into RAM. You'd load Ramdrive.sys through config.sys [device=ramdrive.sys], it would then show up as a drive.

Windows 95 and 98 use them to install.

[clocker]

Does this look like what you're talking about?

[Billy_Dean]

That's it Clocker, but I'm not sure if you can do it with XP.

The progs we used were small by todays standards, and copied to the hard disk, as opposed to installing, as now. This meant you could just copy the whole prog into the ram drive. Of course, when you turn the comp off, you lose it all. Todays progs have to be installed, so info is put, most times, in the registry. If you just copy a prog into your ram drive, which has it's own drive letter, the info in the registry would be pointing to the wrong location. You would need to install to the ramdrive each time.

But as I say, I'm not sure if you can use them in XP.

[Xanex]

Yes you can do it in XP but i think you are limited to using 32meg of system ram only. ill check on that

[Billy_Dean]

According to Clocker's link, there's a way round the 32mb limit.

[Lamsey]

If you want to extensively test your RAM, use MemTest86 to test it. Try it with and without the 128MB stick, and you'll be able to tell whether it's dodgy.

[Triadcool]

Ok Thanks Lamesy, I will try that.