GWX Problem...Probable Cause is What?

[TriskettheKid]

Ok, so I had a thread a little while back about GWX constantly CTD-ing by my 8th patrol.

After quite a bit of searching, I found that it wasn't a bug with the DDs (because the CTD manifested itself when I sank one), but another one.

I was playing when all of a sudden my screen blinked and GWX was minimized. There was the probably cause!

Apparently, GWX is eating up my memory worse than Morrowind ever did back in the day. So much so that I'm being told that my Virtual Memory is running low. So, how can I fix this? Is it an inherent problem in GWX, or is there some maintenance I need to perform on my rig?

[TarJak]

Ok, so I had a thread a little while back about GWX constantly CTD-ing by my 8th patrol.

After quite a bit of searching, I found that it wasn't a bug with the DDs (because the CTD manifested itself when I sank one), but another one.

I was playing when all of a sudden my screen blinked and GWX was minimized. There was the probably cause!

Apparently, GWX is eating up my memory worse than Morrowind ever did back in the day. So much so that I'm being told that my Virtual Memory is running low. So, how can I fix this? Is it an inherent problem in GWX, or is there some maintenance I need to perform on my rig?
What is your spec? There are a bunch of tools that will clean up most of the junk that Windows leave behind in TEMP directories etc. I find jv16 power tools, Tweek XP and also use Spybot S&D to clean up the registry. Get as much free HDD space as you can and make sure you ALWAYS empty the recycle folder as it takes up sapce you could be using for swap.

Because SHIII is a resource hog you should get as much memory as your mainboard can handle. I've got 1.5Gb and have no probs though and swap whilst used doesn't exceed any thresholds.

[TriskettheKid]

I've got a gig of RAM, but this was never a problem before GWX was installed.

I mean, my HDD is relatively small (only 80gb), so the amount of space left open is not really the issue, considering that I have more available now then when I installed GWX.

I run S&D regularly, defrag every week, empty the bin, etc.

[TarJak]

1Gb should be enough, but of course you can never have enough. What else do you have running in the system tray? I found a few rogues that would run processes occaisionally that crashed me out of what I was doing or froze everthing. Alos what scheduled tasks do you run. When you are playing it might be worthwhile disabling anything that will get in the way.

Next time it happens do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and have a look at the Task Manager processes tab and check to see what is taking up memory or CPU cycles when it crashes. This might gov you a hint as to what you need to get rid of.