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seeing as the price is so low nowadays
I wonder if I should go beyond 192 Mb
perhaps all the way to 448MB

is there a way to measure how much ram is
being used in each game ?

A good utility to check your RAM status is RAMPage found at:

http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/index.htm

However, as it uses CPU cycles I wouldn't recommend keeping it running in
the background while playing games if you want to optimize CPU usage.

Darren
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: Hi
:
: seeing as the price is so low nowadays
: I wonder if I should go beyond 192 Mb
: perhaps all the way to 448MB
:
: is there a way to measure how much ram is
: being used in each game ?
:
:

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:44:45 +0800, "leong"

   That was true with older VX boards that came out near the beginnings of
the
pentium days.  anything over 64 megs would bring the system to a crawl.
Most motherboard and chipsets these days easily handle at least up to 512
but
there is some debate on how much improvement you will see after a certain
level.(my above post put that around 196)
dave henrie

There are some tweaks to windows which will cause it to use the
available ram more readily than a swap file, too, like this:

http://members.aol.com/axcel216/98-4.htm#COSW

~daxe

There is a trick you can do in Win98 to utilize ram above 256 MB. Let's say
you have 512 MB. You can create a ramdrive out of the add'l 256, and point
the windows swap file to that ram drive.

For the most part,Win9x is too stupid to use ram over 256, but you can force
it to, using the method above.

True, but in a few years the OS, motherboards, and ram specs will have
changed, so I'm not sure buying a gig of ram now is the thing to do :)

But 256mb is not a big enough swap file for some games. B17-2 for
example requires at least a 400mb swap file.

| Hi
|
| seeing as the price is so low nowadays
| I wonder if I should go beyond 192 Mb
| perhaps all the way to 448MB
|
| is there a way to measure how much ram is
| being used in each game ?
|
|

Alex

256K?! More like 366mb. :-)
There is a utility you can get that will limit the amount of ram seen
by Windows to fix that problem. You can get one for Dos called xm.com
to limit memory in dos to 32mb also. Dos version of USNF and Harpoon2
won't run in a dos session if you have more than 32mb of ram.

I have PC133 but runs them at 100
( cant move the FSB to 133 yet )

any case, tried the rampage utility
but it does not store / record its data

so how do you know how is the ram usage during the game ??