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Old 04-07-2006, 08:22 PM
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Sometimes my computer seems to get sluggish and chug like it is running of hard disk. I think I have 1 gig of memory. I mostly browse the web and play some everquest. Should I look at getting more memory? If so, how much more memory do you think I should get?



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Old 04-08-2006, 12:41 AM
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with what you are using your comp for 1GB is LOTS. I only have a gig, and i use my comp for intense programming and encryption algorithms, and it runs as nice as anything. It's been a slow day and i still have 12 apps running right now, without any lapse.
you most likely have spyware or somesort of huge memory leak in a program, get yourself a copy of a program called hackthis, and post the text file it produces and you can probably get help as to the memory stealing culprit.



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Old 04-09-2006, 11:45 PM
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Yeah I have 1.5 gigs and rarely use 1 gig. I would check what you have running in the background and see if something is hogging the memory.



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Old 04-17-2006, 03:12 PM
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some of the people i have across say that their tshould be around 2 gb of free space in the computer to make it work properly



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Old 05-15-2006, 09:02 AM
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I'd say to have as much memory as you can afford - game programmers are constantly using up more and more resources as the games get more intense... you can NEVER have too much!



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Old 05-15-2006, 02:52 PM
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It sounds like memory is not the cause for the slowdown.



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