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[MasterGoa]

I know this is not unanimous, but I am very happy to report
that I no longer crash to desktop.

I did get two warnings in the past week, but that is it.

Cheers!

Athlon X2 6400+
4GB
Xfire 7750 1GB x 2
W7Pro fully updated.

[sycocys]

Please elaborate on some of the non-patch related things you may have done to help resolve this for the few lingering cases left.

[MasterGoa]

Well, nothing really.

I disable virtual memory for performance reasons
and had actually allocated some swap to help memory
usage. This helped somewhat but is no longer needed.

Other than monitoring vid card memory usage to restart the client before
it crashed, nothing...

Then it fixed itself...

[sycocys]

Virtual memory as in the goofy sd/flash card memory that Vista was using?

[MasterGoa]

No, it is swap which is disk space used as RAM.

Before, I had to have some swap, but now, I removed it, am 100% floting in RAM
and have not crashed...

[MasterGoa]

LOWER TEXTURE QUALITY!!!

Tries very high textures and could not start game with out of memory!

[sycocys]

How much ram do you have?

[Arete]

Ehm... disabling the windows disk swap is _really_ stupid unless you have shitloads of RAM and know what you're doing. Disk swapping is there in all modern OS:es for a reason.

[MasterGoa]

I know what I am doing, dont worry!

4GB of RAM.

[sycocys]

You always worry when someone says that!

You running under 1 gig vid ram?

[Sen]

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[color=#959595]Ehm... disabling the windows disk swap is _really_ stupid unless you have shitloads of RAM and know what you're doing. Disk swapping is there in all modern OS:es for a reason.[/color]

This was very true way back in the day when memory was measured in MB and 1 gig was "a lot" of RAM. These days 4 gig is pretty much industry standard, and many computers come with between 8 and 12 gig [and t's ridiculously inexpensive to max out ram compared to 5 or 10 years ago]

This is not to say that one should disable the swap file COMPLETELY [I've seen cases of programs that refused to launch without a allocated swap file] but lowering it to 1024 mb or just giving it a token 256mb is enough to keep such issues in check.

For a comprehensive overview of testing with pagefile on and off, see:

http://www.tweakhoun...ng-without-one/

Which has some great explanations in addition to how to test to see if disabling pagefile provides any benefit to your specific computing needs.

[evilC]

MasterGoa, on 28 January 2013 - 10:35 AM, said:

I disable virtual memory for performance reasons
and had actually allocated some swap to help memory usage.

Do what?
Virtual Memory and Swap are one and the same.
How can you "disable virtual memory" and "allocate swap"??