will increasing memory improve performance?

mookiemookie · 04-02-07, 12:28 PM

Adding more RAM is a cheap and easy upgrade that should definately help, but you might also want to think about upgrading your card as well.

Zantham · 04-02-07, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Adding more RAM is a cheap and easy upgrade that should definately help, but you might also want to think about upgrading your card as well.

I second this, going to 2GB RAM never hurts. That being said....I have 3GB RAM in this machine (which anything over 2GB is mostly useless in XP), and a GeForce 6800 Ultra video card. My CPU is a P4-3.6GHz. And on higher graphic settings my mouse definitely lags.
So in your case...the RAM upgrade won't hurt, but probably wont completely solve the laggy mouse either.

GoldenEagle8 · 04-02-07, 05:54 PM

I've been looking for the answer to the same question for a while, I have a AMD 1.8Ghz prossessor, 1Gig of RAM, and an ATI 200m Graphics card, will a second gig at least add 10FPS?

Rilex · 04-02-07, 06:02 PM

I had a P4 3.2, 4GB (3.5 effective) and a 6800GT ... still had serious performance problems.

Upgraded on Friday to a C2D 2.4, 4GB RAM again (and 4GB effective thanks to running a 64bit OS), and a 8800GTS (320MB RAM). Night and day of course.

stabiz · 04-02-07, 06:32 PM

I did a test a few weeks ago, and I think SH4 uses about 800MB ram (if it can), so going to two gigs is always good, so XP is free to do whatever it does in the background.

But I have to say, buying the C2D 2,4ghz is the smartest thing I ever did. (Not that I notice that in SH4, but almost everywhere else)

DirtyHarry3033 · 04-02-07, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by stabiz

I did a test a few weeks ago, and I think SH4 uses about 800MB ram (if it can), so going to two gigs is always good, so XP is free to do whatever it does in the background.

But I have to say, buying the C2D 2,4ghz is the smartest thing I ever did. (Not that I notice that in SH4, but almost everywhere else)

You sure about that??? I checked with MemStatus 2.50 tonight after killing all unnecessary stuff with EndItAll (running XP Pro SP2 on a system with 2gb system memory) and the peak system memory usage was 1975 MB!!! I think no matter how much ram you have, SH4 will eat nearly all of it. I mean, I was using 96% of 2GB, I bet if I dumped in another 2GB I'd still be at 96%. Not even FSX eats ram the way SH4 does!

Rilex · 04-02-07, 08:17 PM

Unless you're using Perf Mon and checking the Committed Bytes counter for the process, you're not going to get an accurate number.

-Pv- · 04-02-07, 05:57 PM

Two gigs is the best RAM solution for playing games on XP. It doesn't help game speed as far as the 3D animation though. CPU, mainboard design, and graphics card drive performance more than anything else. What it will mostly do is speed up load times where disk cache might be used. You cannot get rid of the use of disk cache in XP (or any Win OS) but you can reduce it a lot. Also, if your graphics card is AGP, those cards use system ram for aperature. The more system RAM you have, the more you have left for the software when the graphics card grabs it. If your RAM speed is less than 400 you'll suffer a bit there.
-Pv-

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04-02-07, 06:02 PM	#4
Rilex Sailor man Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 43 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I had a P4 3.2, 4GB (3.5 effective) and a 6800GT ... still had serious performance problems. Upgraded on Friday to a C2D 2.4, 4GB RAM again (and 4GB effective thanks to running a 64bit OS), and a 8800GTS (320MB RAM). Night and day of course.

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Rilex Sailor man Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 43 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Unless you're using Perf Mon and checking the Committed Bytes counter for the process, you're not going to get an accurate number.

04-02-07, 05:57 PM	#8
-Pv- The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,434 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Two gigs is the best RAM solution for playing games on XP. It doesn't help game speed as far as the 3D animation though. CPU, mainboard design, and graphics card drive performance more than anything else. What it will mostly do is speed up load times where disk cache might be used. You cannot get rid of the use of disk cache in XP (or any Win OS) but you can reduce it a lot. Also, if your graphics card is AGP, those cards use system ram for aperature. The more system RAM you have, the more you have left for the software when the graphics card grabs it. If your RAM speed is less than 400 you'll suffer a bit there. -Pv-