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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: marklhess90745 on January 02, 2007, 02:32

Title: Lack of PC or video memory
Post by: marklhess90745 on January 02, 2007, 02:32

I play a game known as ToonTown.  It is a 3-D 'adventure' game.  The graphics tend to run really  s l o w!
Is there a better chance of this being a result of (1) the massive data being passed to the video card, (2) the video driver - I have d/l the 'latest' NVIDIA driver, or (3) insufficient memory - either RAM or VideoRam?

Title: Re: Lack of PC or video memory
Post by: sam on January 02, 2007, 09:54

i havent heard of that game but i suspect it isnt using up a huge amount of memeory, what video card do you have?

I would suggest checking that you als have the latest version of direct x installed directx (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.mspx) before doing much else

Title: Re: Lack of PC or video memory
Post by: Sandra on January 02, 2007, 11:27

What are your PCs specifications, cpu, ram and gfx card etc ?

How full is your hard drive ?

Title: Re: Lack of PC or video memory
Post by: marklhess90745 on January 04, 2007, 06:14

This is the information from the 'System Information' page:

System Information
OS Name         Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition   
Version            5.1.2600 Build 2600
OS Manfacturer         Microsoft Corporation
System Name         FAMILYROOM
System Manufacturer      GATEWA
System Model         PT84510A
System Type         X86-based PC
Processor         x86 Family 15 Model 1 Stepping 2
BIOS Version/Date         Intel Corp. PT8451A.15A.0004.P02.0112051220, 12/5/2001
SMBIOS Version         2.3
Windows Directory         C:\WINDOWS   
System DIrectory         C:\WINDOWS\System32   
Boot Device         \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale            United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer      Version = "5.1.2600.0 {xpclient..010817-1148}"
User Name         FAMILYROOM\Mark
Time Zone         Pacific Standard Time
Total Physical Memory      256.00 MB
Available Physical Memory      71.86 MB
Total Virtual Memory      1.23 GB
Available Virtual Memory      903.70 MB
Page File Space         1,002.22 MB
Page File            C:\pagefile.sys

I thought I had added more 'Physical Memory' at one time.  How can I verify this?

Title: Re: Lack of PC or video memory
Post by: Sandra on January 04, 2007, 12:22

Quote from: marklhess90745 on January 04, 2007, 06:14

I thought I had added more 'Physical Memory' at one time.  How can I verify this?

If you have and its not being recognised then that would explain why its a bit slow as XP can struggle with only 256mb ram.

Right click on My Computer and select properties it will show the amount of ram on the general page in the bottom section, I should think it will only show the same as what the System Information page shows though.

The best way would be to open the pc up and see if you can identify the ram, unfortunately sometimes they dont put the size on  :(