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"Marshall" <marshall@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Jon Atkinson" <jra505@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > Hello all,
> >
> > My system.....
> >
> > 2.6GHz AthlonXP
> > 512Mb RAM
> > Geforce 5900XT
> >
> > and I get pretty decent frame rates on 1024x768 and medium settings,
however
> > experience pretty
> > severe slow downs when baddies start to appear (just when you want the
> > motion to be quick and smooth!)
> >
> > does the fact that my computer seems to be able to cope with the
graphics
> > pretty well when I am just wandering around doing nothing, but slows
down a
> > lot when any sort of action kicks off, mean that it is the CPU that is
> > struggling, as opposed to the gfx card? I wouldn't actually say I have
got a
> > weak CPU at 2.6GHz, so maybe it is the memory which is the limiting
factor?
> > Could the drop in speed be due to the system using the paging file due
to
> > the amount of physical memory being insufficient?
> >
> > Any comments would be most welcome!
>
> Nowadays, any less than 1GB of RAM can slow you down in the latest games,

Nonsense.

> what with WinXP requiring almost 256MB just to keep itself happy, before
you
> even factor in the memory useage of the games and apps themselves.

More nonsense. Windows doesn't use 256 MB of ram. The OP's problem is NOT
his installed memory, 512 MB is fine for Doom 3.

> With a paltry 256MB or so left over for the game to use, I'm sure your
system
> frequently has to access its harddisk swapfile at all the worst times.

Well, you would be wrong.

> With 2GB of RAM in this box, I can't remember the last time my system
slowed
> down or even burped due to something having to be retrieved from the
harddrive
> and loaded into memory during in-game action. 1GB is the minimum I would
> even consider, for running todays games.
>     -Marshall

The _level_ is loaded into memory and the _size_ of the level is what
matters. 2GB is way overkill. What game do you think utilizes 2 GB's of ram?