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Trav_R · 10-29-05, 03:39 PM

I've got a 2.4 Ghz P4 processor and 1.5 GB of PC3200 RAM. What bothers me is that when I start up the Task Manager before I run the game, I can come back to it later and see that the game was using 700 MB of my page file instead of using my memory. Why would the computer want to waste time filling up 700 MB worth of the page file when I have 1.5 GB of memory? It's a giant waste of time. I would have 700 MB of free memory just sitting there doing nothing, while the computer kept shoving stuff in the page file. Why have the memory if the computer is not going to use it, and rely on the super slow page file instead? I'm a computer science guy, so I understand the problem, I just don't know why Windows insists on using the page file before using my memory, and I don't know how to change it. If it used memory before the page file, I'm sure loading times would be helped considerably.

About the mouse, no it's an optical mouse and it works fine until I get in the game. Then it moves sort of sluggishly for some reason, like maybe I need to adjust the sensitivity, but I can't find that option.

Thanks for the replies guys.

10-29-05, 03:39 PM	#7
Trav_R Ensign Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 227 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I've got a 2.4 Ghz P4 processor and 1.5 GB of PC3200 RAM. What bothers me is that when I start up the Task Manager before I run the game, I can come back to it later and see that the game was using 700 MB of my page file instead of using my memory. Why would the computer want to waste time filling up 700 MB worth of the page file when I have 1.5 GB of memory? It's a giant waste of time. I would have 700 MB of free memory just sitting there doing nothing, while the computer kept shoving stuff in the page file. Why have the memory if the computer is not going to use it, and rely on the super slow page file instead? I'm a computer science guy, so I understand the problem, I just don't know why Windows insists on using the page file before using my memory, and I don't know how to change it. If it used memory before the page file, I'm sure loading times would be helped considerably. About the mouse, no it's an optical mouse and it works fine until I get in the game. Then it moves sort of sluggishly for some reason, like maybe I need to adjust the sensitivity, but I can't find that option. Thanks for the replies guys.