rec.autos.simulators

The main problem is that when the tracks load they take a *long* time (in
the region of a minute to 90 seconds), something that doesn't happen on the
other PC in my flat. Okay, I have a 333 while he has a 350 and I only have
64Mb RAM where he has 128, but is this the issue or have I got another
problem?

FYI I'm using the latest detonator drivers ATM but had the same problem
with the other drivers from Creative and nVidia.

Any clues/fixes?

M

Additional RAM will always enhance loading speeds as the OS
doesn't have to page out as much.  Going from 64mb to 128mb
has had a big effect with most programs I run.  Paging will
increase load times exponentially.

eg - Your machine must load data from disk, into ram and then
push some of that data back out to disk in order to fit more into
RAM, then goes and loads some more from disk etc etc...

The other machine could probably just suck it all straight into
RAM and not page.

I would recommend you search altavista for a little freeware
proggie called 'freemem' which you can use to force unused
dlls etc out to the swapfile and regain more physical RAM.  Use
it just before launching a game and loading performance as
well as game performance should improve a bit.  You'll also
get let paging during gameplay.

Oh, btw - make sure you are defragged and try to defrag your
swapfile as well (ie - set no swapfile, defrag and then recreate)

Jason

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