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Originally Posted by Heibges
It sounds like a memory leak.
Maybe try saving the games more often.
Shut you computer down, rather than restart as this makes sure the memory is fully purged.
The turn you PC back on and start playing again.
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Nope. When you shut down an application or game windows frees *all* of the memory that was used by that application. No need to restart, or shut down. This is true for windows NT, 2000, XP and vista but not 95, 98, ME.
Memory leaks in windows do normally require a restart to reclaim the memory but they are very rare. There is pracically no difference between restarting, and shutting down and turning on again. Other apps that you have running on your system tray can leak memory, but its possible to restart them manually. Or be brutal about what is running in your system tray. Do you really need junk running 24/7 to alert you there is an update availalbe for Java, Acrobat, Flash, Quicktime and everything else? Use Autoruns or MSConfig to disable that crap.
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Originally Posted by prowler3
I used to use a Registry setting which would empty the pagefile on every boot/reboot? Are you saying shutting down and restarting accomplishes the same thing? I have my doubts as the Registry entry would take a LONG time to shut down the system...leading me to believe it was actually purging the pagefile. Just shutting down the system, without this registry entry, acts no different than a plain "restart"...at least for me.
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That setting is a security thing, its nothing to do with freeing memory.
It makes windows overwrite everything in the pagefile with zeros on shutdown - otherwise whatever data was last on each page stays there until the page is needed again, then it is overwritten.
Hope this info helps
Cheers
Johnno