By would take them back I meant wouldn't lol THEfog
On 3/12/10, THEfog . <[email protected]> wrote: > Lol that would be cool but having to actually put/reinstall them back > to the RAM drive every time you shut down you pc would get so > annoying. Saying that I used to run AOE2 from a ram drive on my old > IBM machine cause I was lucky and managed to scab a 2Gb for it, this > amount of RAM was rather rare for the time (2003-4) because my dads > mate worked at a pc store and he just ordered in two new "high > performance and ultra large capacity" RAM modules each one 1GB in > size, then out of no-where whenever he tried to install these chips > into a XP machine it would just crash but they worked on pre XP OS's, > because I was running 2000 and the company that supplied them reconed > that he was making up stories and would take them back he said I could > have them for $50, I was over the moon lol. > > THEfog > > On 3/12/10, Espionage724 <[email protected]> wrote: >> An interesting thought, what if you had uber amounts of RAM and just >> made a RAM drive and put an entire game onto that drive and ran it :p >> just imagine the load times :p >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:11 AM, AngelicTears <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> yup, but nowadays, as i said before, there are no or a few application >>> or >>> program that can be run correctly with page file turned off...even the >>> OS >>> it >>> self will be error for it needs pagefile even there's a plenty of space >>> in >>> RAM, it sounded stupid to me in this era, where there are 16GB RAM >>> systems >>> available now.... well maybe in the future, they will be plenty or all >>> the >>> program does not need VM anymore, that's when we wish we have a LOT of >>> RAM... >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:45 PM, THEfog . <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Correct, if page file is disabled and your ram is full you will get pop >>>> up >>>> messages alerting you that you have no memory (RAM, Pagefile) to >>>> excecute >>>> your program in. And this serverly hinders performance as well, >>>> although >>>> intersting enough you will find that sometimes you may be using 2GB of >>>> RAM >>>> and still have 1.25GB free and when you start a game (CS:S >>>> >>>> THEfog >>>> >>>> On 11/03/2010 2:26 PM, "MAD_BEAST" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> so it really makes sense having 8GB ram in a gaming pc.... i guess >>>> tats wahy u can find brand new NETBOOKS with 4GB... which is almost >>>> stupid... but now it makes sense. >>>> >>>> today the standar is 4GB, as 2-3 years ago were 2 GB, now i wish i >>>> have 4GB, so in 2 or 3 years they will wish to have ordered 8 GB >>>> instead of 4gb >>>> >>>> >>>> so when Page file has been turned off... what is suppoused to be used >>>> by the virtual memory is eaten by the ram, so the ram has to be used >>>> more when page file is off. right? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS >>>> >>>> -- >>>> INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS >>> >>> -- >>> INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Espionage724 Has A Signature... >> >> -- >> INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS >> > -- INTEL 9xx SOLDIERS SANS FRONTIERS
