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ok guys either I am missing something that I can do other or something, My system has 2 gig of ram but it seems to run chopy and sluggish, is there some way to get virtual memory set up to run with Sins so that it loads runs and shuts down smother?
What you're experiencing is called paging or swapping. When the OS and all processes allocate more memory that you've got the kernel will attempt to swap dormant process to the page file. This takes time as the process's address space has to be written to disk. When a dormant process that as been swapped to disk become active, the operating system will need to find another process that has become dormant swap that to disk so that the first process can be swapped in to RAM. Again this takes time as two processes have to be written to and read from the swap file.
The operating system can take a gig or two (Win7/8), XP tends to have a smaller footprint, background processes will also consume memory. That doesn't leave much to run Sins on.
Virtual memory, aka swap file, is not going to help here. You're going to need more RAM.
and here I thought having a system with 2 gig of ram was going to help LOL I guess I need to figure out what I can shut down before running the game I like win 7 more than 8 but if I had my choice I would drop down to vista LOL any way I can find out what is running in background that I can shut down without destableizing my system or crashing it all together?
vista 32bit is significantly worse at keeping ram available for programs that xp,vwin7 & Whate.
the best advice is to ADD 2gb of ram to the computer (if possible)some machines can NOT have the total ram upgraded, unfortunately.
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yeah well I need to wait for a bit and then do some research to see if my system can take the extra memory I really wish there was some way to free up the ram a bit LOL anyway thanks guys for the input on this
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