It keeps slowing down. Whenever Im playing online, usually DOD or HL2 DM, after about 2-3 mins of smoothness it starts getting laggy. Whenever I join a new server or leave and then re join a server it gets better but only for 2-3 mins and the lag starts agian. I play on cable whenever I am playing so I dont think its bandwith related. Any guesses on whats wrong
Asus K8v se Deluxe Athlon 64 3700 fsb 210mhz 512 mb of cheap ram, prob the problem there 300gb maxtor sata, recently defragmented FX 5500 It runs cool enough and is only mildly oc'd Almost everything is up to date.
Does sound like you could be hitting the point where all your ram is used so it switches to virtual memory for the extra (leading to a fair bit of slowdown). Though if it only does it after a few minutes it sounds like perhaps source has a (possibly only slight) memory leak ? That or they just don't allocate all the memory right from the off. My own humble opinion these days : 512mb ram = minimum, memory problems to be expected in any modern engine (possible gotten around with minimum settings) 1024mb ram = OK, but will sometimes hit memory problems now and then. 2048mb ram = Smooooooth For the record, I went up to 2048 myself last summer, then got a G15 keyboard about 3 weeks back (so can see CPU/Memory/Frame rates on the fly) Since I got the keyboard I've witnessed Quake 4 using 65%, F.E.A.R using 76% at the least, so thats two that are using over 1 gig ram already.
I thought it was the RAM before I read the rest of the thread. You need more than 512MB, you have a nice system and 512 is giving you a bottleneck. The RAM is probably filling up as you play the game, although the memory should dissapear once you've left the game, so perhaps a memory leak. You should buy more expensive RAM. Even if the problem persists after buying the extra RAM, this will give you some nice benefits!
Yep, definately ram. If you can, spring right for two gigs; it's cheap enough now. Every time it has to read new contents off the disk rather than out of the ram, you're talking generally 1-2% of the speed for reading and writing data, so it's obviously going to be hugely slower. Yeah, new hard drives can be speedy, but they're still frozen molasses compared to even the slowest of current ram. Even if Gigabyte's iRam ever gets released (soon by the sounds of it) and it were ten times the size and used a SATA-II interface, it would still run at probably a twentieth the speed of system ram. Point being that swapfiles slow things down immensely, and not much ram makes them very frequently accessed. I recently moved to 2 gigs... very much smoother. And I was coming from a gig of pretty speedy stuff, too. Of course, it's worth checking that there's no crapware running in the background. Or a p2p app running on *any* comp connected to the net connection.
Im planning on moving up to 2 gb of xms in a few weeks so I will see. I only use that computer for gaming and dr divx, seperatley of course. I hear this mb is picky about ram so if anyone else has one tell me what you get the best results with. Thanks for the feedback.
If it's a DFI then Corsair probably isn't the best choice - it's very haphazard and works for some people but not others. Some of the best stuff to get for compatibility is OCZ Platinum - pick up 2GB of the EL or EB stuff (depending on what you want to do). Edit: Sorry, just noticed the post with specs - the Corsair stuff should be fine. I'd do a Google search or two just to make sure though
