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    laggy windows after Gaming

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Hambone, Jul 21, 2007.

  1. Hambone

    Hambone Notebook Consultant

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    i guess it gets laggy because the CPU is hot?
     
    Hambone, Jul 21, 2007
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    no that is most likely not it.

    Mostlikely you don't have enough RAM, which is causing every other 'task' to lag following the game. Let your computer do its buisness for a few minutes, then everything should look fine.
     
    Askarii, Jul 21, 2007
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    yeah it might be windows sloppy memory management.

    its not so much that you don't have enough ram, as that you don't have enough ram available, because windows decides not to release it immediately.
     
    masterchef341, Jul 21, 2007
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    definitely the memory management.

    The more RAM you got, the less laggy it is... usually.
     
    Gophn, Jul 21, 2007
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    Yeah right, it's definitly the Ram. As long as I had 1GB, it was very laggy for about 30s after gaming, but since I've 2 Gigs, it just needs about 5 s or so.
     
    Tobi1982, Jul 21, 2007
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    Yeah, it's probably because you were low on ram while the game was running, so some things got pushed to the paging file, which is way slower to access.
     
    iza, Jul 21, 2007
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    call of duty 2 with 8600 gts 256 ram

    1 gb ram ddr2 667
     
    Hambone, Jul 21, 2007
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    using Vista or XP?

    XP is optimal with at least 1-2gigs for gaming
    Vista is optimal with at least 2 gigs.
     
    Gophn, Jul 21, 2007
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    I would still recommend to get another gig (its cheap, check out RAM Deals thread).

    Or optimize your system (pagefile, GUI settings, disable resource hogs, etc...)
     
    Gophn, Jul 21, 2007
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  11. Charles P. Jefferies

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    That's a desktop system if you have an 8600GTS . . . definitely upgrade the RAM. That's the only way around this.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jul 21, 2007
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