Dr. Ffreeze
Regular
Hello All,
I am a bit disappointed with the way memory is used in Windows boxes. WinXP is much better then Win98 but still, I don't think that oodles and oodles of memory gets used to full effect. I blame both WindowsXP and program developers. Well, blame is kinda harsh, but dang it I want see a performance increase when I have 2GB or more of memory! =)
Games are one of the applications where they can many times run in "exclusive mode". I just made that term up, but when I am playing a game, I don't really need it to share resources with other programs like Internet Explorer. So the FPS map I am playing only has 237MB of textures, I HAVE 2GB of memory. Go ahead and load up the between map interface, the quick save, the next cutscene, and the next 2 maps into memory! Never touch that evil virtual memory on my HD, EVER.
Anyway, if you had 4GB in your system what would you do to gain maximum performance? I want to hear all the ideas. I really wish someone would make a $40 IDE card that had no IDE connectors, just memory slots. =)
Any ideas?
Dr. Ffreeze
PS. I really liked the option in Serious Sam 2 that pretouched all textures in the game. I would guess that this loaded many of them into memory to cache them.
I am a bit disappointed with the way memory is used in Windows boxes. WinXP is much better then Win98 but still, I don't think that oodles and oodles of memory gets used to full effect. I blame both WindowsXP and program developers. Well, blame is kinda harsh, but dang it I want see a performance increase when I have 2GB or more of memory! =)
Games are one of the applications where they can many times run in "exclusive mode". I just made that term up, but when I am playing a game, I don't really need it to share resources with other programs like Internet Explorer. So the FPS map I am playing only has 237MB of textures, I HAVE 2GB of memory. Go ahead and load up the between map interface, the quick save, the next cutscene, and the next 2 maps into memory! Never touch that evil virtual memory on my HD, EVER.
Anyway, if you had 4GB in your system what would you do to gain maximum performance? I want to hear all the ideas. I really wish someone would make a $40 IDE card that had no IDE connectors, just memory slots. =)
Any ideas?
Dr. Ffreeze
PS. I really liked the option in Serious Sam 2 that pretouched all textures in the game. I would guess that this loaded many of them into memory to cache them.