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    Not enough memory? W3J H026

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by bijanv, Jul 16, 2006.

  1. bijanv

    bijanv Notebook Consultant

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    OKay so heres a bit of a dissapointment.. I just installed Ghost Recon: Advanced War Fighter and this game is supposed to be the resource hog of all games cuz it needs to render out full cities. Now I thought I would be able to play this with the W3J but apparantly it is not the case.

    Everytime.. about 5 minutes into the game, it crashes completely and I get an error about how Direct3D could not allocate enough memory for the game or something..

    so.. choices that remain is to upgade the RAM right?

    And if I have to.. whould you guys recommend OCZ or Corsair RAM? DDR2 667mz right?
     
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    How much ram do you have? Is virtual memory on? If you have a gig it should play fine.....
     
    kawasakiguy37, Jul 16, 2006
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  3. bijanv

    bijanv Notebook Consultant

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    yea I have the 1 gig ram that came with the notebook.. im not sure how to check n see if virtual memory is on or not so im just gonna say no..

    and i thougt it would play fine too but i guess not :(

    actually I checked task manager this time to see how much RAM the game was actually using.. it was at about 400 mb and i had another 300 left over/not being used... what the hell is going on!?
     
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    1-800-Zealots Notebook Consultant

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    Did you have anything running in the background? maybe try black vipers process list if ur desperate i freed up about 100 ram.

    For Virtual Memory try
    1. right click my computer
    2.properties
    3.advanced
    4.performance
    5. advanced
     
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  5. 1-800-Zealots

    1-800-Zealots Notebook Consultant

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    Minimum specs required to run:
    2 GHz Pentium® IV or the equivalent
    1Gb RAM
    5 GB of hard drive space
    NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6/7 or ATI® Radeon® 9600-9800/X

    it looks pretty demanding so id shut down as much as possible in the background. minimum seems to be 1 gb free, but maybe up ur virtual memory (which i know nothing about)
     
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  6. Jason

    Jason Overclocker NBR Reviewer

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    Are you using hyper memory for your X1600? 256 + 256RAM. If so, this could be the problem...
     
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  7. bijanv

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    i dont even know how to access hypermemory lol i just checked for virtual ram i have about 1.5 gigs allocated for virtual ram
     
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    and no i closed eveyrthing and tried to play.. same thing happened..
     
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    does hypermemory give problems ?so it is beter to game without it ?or what are you saying ?

    or do you mean that if the game needs 1 gig and you use HM than only something like 750 mb ram will be left .
     
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  10. 1-800-Zealots

    1-800-Zealots Notebook Consultant

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    probably something along those lines plus other applications/processes take up ram too
     
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  11. bijanv

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    has anyone else tried this game on their W3J? do you guys think I should just upgrade my RAM to 2 gigs?
     
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    yoseph Notebook Enthusiast

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    I put 2 one gig sticks in my w3j, helped out in bf2.

    I purchased Gskill, and it works like it should...of course nothing wrong with Corsair, or OCZ.
     
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    I just got a Corsair 1 gig ram and made the upgrade.. the game is working perfectly! I played for a couple hours and no problems.. also I noticed some faster load times which is a plus.. hooray for 2 gigs :D
     
    bijanv, Jul 18, 2006
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    What drivers are you using? I would recommend using catalyst 6.6
     
    cgil, Jul 28, 2006
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    bijanv Notebook Consultant

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    yes I already upgraded to those drivers and it did not fix the problem.. only upgrading the RAM to 2 gigs did the trick
     
    bijanv, Jul 28, 2006
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    just for future reference, is the empty slot easy to get at, just the hatch on the bottom? or do you have to open it all up?
     
    lord roddington, Jul 29, 2006
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  17. bijanv

    bijanv Notebook Consultant

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    you have to unscrew aobut 8 or 9 screws and it took me a while to realize how to get it in there (gotta do it one side at a time, can't just do it like normal PC's) but it was rather easy to do
     
    bijanv, Jul 29, 2006
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