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| 78069 | 2002-09-09 09:37:00 | I have Need For Speed High Stakes, and windows XP Pro. NFS said i had less than 1mb free on my hard drive. I actually have about 20 Gb free. I went to the technical support on the disk, and it said it could be a virtual memory problem eg. not enough of it. Should i increase it? If so, how? |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 78070 | 2002-09-09 09:52:00 | How much RAM do you have installed? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 78071 | 2002-09-09 10:04:00 | Hi ya. Virtual Memory is the Windows swap file and resides on your hard disk. A swap file is used to assist processing so that if your physical memory (RAM) cant manage the processing load it swaps parts out of memory and uses your hard disk to assist with processing. Usually the swap file is dynamic, meaning that it increases and decreases in size as and when you need it. I would be surprised if thats the problem unless NFS is very hungry on RAM and you have limited the amount of disk space for the swap file. You would have to purposely change settings to limit the swap file so I would doubt you have done this. As Mike says, how much RAm do you have and how much does the game says it needs? :-) |
parry (27) | ||
| 78072 | 2002-09-09 10:21:00 | These are my computer specs. Athlon XP 2000 Windows XP Pro 256mb DDR 266 Ram 40GB hard drive, with 25Gb free Geforce 2 MX 440 the game requirments are here. www.needforspeed.com Could the game be to old or something? |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 78073 | 2002-09-09 10:26:00 | You shouldn't have any problems running that game on your system. I have the next version of NFS up from that one, and a lower spec machine, and NFS runs fine. I'm wondering whether you should try running the game in compatibility mode (set to Win98). Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 78074 | 2002-09-09 10:28:00 | Shouldn't be, you can goto www.superrsoft.com and download Super Rabbit to manage your Virtual Memory, but you should be sweet with just that. I had a similar sort of thing, there was so much HDD space (Over 7 Gigs) that is only picked up the first 2.. Shouldn't have anything to do with virtual RAM as 256 should be more than enough! Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 78075 | 2002-09-09 10:33:00 | You got a honking machine there ... beats the pus out my old dunger :-) Looking briefly on the site I see it says Win95/98 support but doesn't mention W2K or XP. Go to www.ea.com and enter Need for Speed High Stakes as the game name and 2k/Xp as the OS and it takes you to a tech support page. I think its an O/S or video card issue. You may need to do a bit of hunting around the EA site. Best of luck and hope you find a fix. :-) |
parry (27) | ||
| 78076 | 2002-09-09 11:01:00 | Honking machine? You have seen nothing yet check out the specs for my other computer. My friends call it the supercomputer. But at the rate of technology increase, its old already. stink. Athlon XP 2100 Windows Xp Pro 1 GB DDR 333 ram 64mb Geforce 4 MX 460 60gb hard drive and whatever else. But guess what? It crashes more than the other one. Probably all my dads old business software going on to XP. Got the computers from Samcor, and i recommend them if you buy a new computer. Great support. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 78077 | 2002-09-09 11:09:00 | Now your just being a showoff - & yes I am jealous. I hope you have your own UPS and generator or else the lights in the whole neighbourhood are going to go out when you crank her up. ;-) | parry (27) | ||
| 78078 | 2002-09-20 07:37:00 | wow i hope you have a decent power supply to run all that over 300 watts would be needed especially if you over clockit as well run the latest drivers via 4 in one graphics etc that might help | kiwibeat (304) | ||
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