• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Vista and RAM Question

S

Sorce

Supreme [H]ardness
Joined
Mar 30, 2001
Messages
6,092
Right now I'm running Vista Home Premium, with an AthlonXP 2400+ and 1.5GB of PC2100 DDR. I also get stuttering video playback which brings my system to a crawl. Will upgrading to 3GB (doubling the memory) help/eliminate with this problem or am I basically up a creek until my next build?

Specs for the rest of the computer are in my signature, if anyone needs it.
 
I maybe be wrong, but if you go over 2gb, it will not help you any. I think that Vista 32bit can only use up to 2gb of ram, even if you have 3. Upgrade to 2gb, will make a differene. What is your Vista's memoy usage while idling?
I think a processor upgrade will be alot more helpful.
 
Ditto- 2GB.

There was a thread at one point that queried the "usable RAM" people are getting- and it all came back at around 2GB. Anything past 2GB Vista really doesn't use much of (for most people). Granted if you do video editing that would benifit from 4GB but for the standard uses Vista won't use more.

It does sound to me like your CPU. Your processor doesn't sound like it is prossessing (things like video) fast enough.
 
Most likely your problem is purely Vista related. An XP2400+ should be able to display any kind of non-hd encoded video easily. My guess is your drivers are malfunctioning due to Vista messing up the infrastructure.
 
Finn said:
Most likely your problem is purely Vista related. An XP2400+ should be able to display any kind of non-hd encoded video easily. My guess is your drivers are malfunctioning due to Vista messing up the infrastructure.
Click to expand...

I don't think so.

When you are trying to watch any of the videos, access Performance manager and take a look at your processor :) That may tell you the problem here.
 
Get the Multi Meter gadget.... gives you a basic overview of your RAM and CPU usage...
I won't be one bit suprised to see your CPU maxing out.

It will also give you a basic idea how much RAM certain apps suck down (mind you it only measures RAM being used- not cached RAM).

I have 2GB of RAM in my system and at any given time Vista only has about 50-60% of it used- that's with Outlook, a few IE pages, and chat clients open. Watching a video hardly takes an impact on RAM (a few percent) but I can observe both CPU cores jumping up to around 50% (Mind you I have the one in my sig- a bit faster than yours).

You can ignore the trolls- they usually go away after some time. :D
 
1-First install Vista get aggravated on your RAM.

2-Uninstall Vista Install XP. Like you have a new comp :)

I run a dualboot wit XP as my main working sytem and Vista as Test fun Ram sucking sys.
 
What video format are you trying to play? What codecs do you have installed? What video player are you using? Do you have any addon plugins installed for the player you use?

Seriously, I hate it when people jump on the "Vista Sucks" bandwagon. There are factors other than the OS that can cause video stuttering.

Answer the questions I asked and we'll move on from there.
 
Youri Carma said:
Cannot be your buddy on DX10 sorry:(
You don't have to anticipate on DirectX10 yet when you are buying your videocard.
Not only the Videocards aren't fully compatible with DX10 but also the games are not.

So why should your OS hav DX10?

I use:
Mplayer
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

klcodec
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

vlc mediaplayer
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

Maybe that can help you Mplayer is realy something good, realy quick stuff.
Click to expand...

You are right, but quite a few of them are right around the corner for one. There are a couple of titles that are out taking advantage of DX10, not great, but they do take advantage of it.
With good enough system you can run Vista just fine, and it does have some pretty damn good features, so, why not?
 
Yeah, it's looking like the processor is the culprit here, and not the RAM. It's weird though, minimum processor specs for Vista is 800MHz, so I figured that a 2400+ would be more than enough to run basic programs like WMP, WinAmp, and the like. I'm not trying to run Bioshock or anything, just listen to music and watch anime.

Ah well, guess the next build is gonna come sooner than I thought.
 
[UPS] Sorce;1031417817 said:
Yeah, it's looking like the processor is the culprit here, and not the RAM. It's weird though, minimum processor specs for Vista is 800MHz, so I figured that a 2400+ would be more than enough to run basic programs like WMP, WinAmp, and the like. I'm not trying to run Bioshock or anything, just listen to music and watch anime.

Ah well, guess the next build is gonna come sooner than I thought.
Click to expand...

Yea, two keywords here... Minimum for Vista.
Bare minimum required for the operating system itself- nothing else ;)

As with everything- newer OS puts harder demands on hardware... sometimes you just have to bite the bullet to upgrade.
 
zacdl said:
Yea, two keywords here... Minimum for Vista.
Bare minimum required for the operating system itself- nothing else ;)
Click to expand...
Well, considering the processor is twice as fast as the minimum, and I got half a GB more RAM, I figured I'd be good. Ah well.
 
Youri Carma said:
1-First install Vista get aggravated on your RAM.

2-Uninstall Vista Install XP. Like you have a new comp :)

I run a dualboot wit XP as my main working sytem and Vista as Test fun Ram sucking sys.
Click to expand...

That didn't even make any sense.
 
ivan_gromov said:
I don't think so.

When you are trying to watch any of the videos, access Performance manager and take a look at your processor :) That may tell you the problem here.
Click to expand...

I guess no-one watched videos of any kind back when we had 800Mhz Athlons.. Yeah you MUST be right, it's the CPU not the OS. :rolleyes:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top