Re: whaich Hardware to speed up WOW
- From: Urs Steiner <urs.steiner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:38:35 +0200
HI
maxnews01@xxxxxx wrote:
i looked at my Ram while playing WOW it never gets "full" so why should 2Gig rock more then 1gig do?
You know you can turn on more columns in Taskmgr than the standard? View-> select columns on the processes tab
make sure to choose the following: image name, username, cpu, cpu time, mem usage, vm size
*vm size* is really important here, because e.g. my firefox shows at the moment that it's using 9536k, but the vm size is 52'844k ....
when it comes to memory usage, it's the sum of both that counts ... and the vm size is actually worse when it comes to performance ... this has always to be loaded from the HD when the game needs it ...
if you look on the perfomance tab, you see the *physical memory*. in a message above you wrote that you have
> physical memory: 1,000,000 kB
did you round this yourselfs? because this is actually a pretty weird ammount, my notebook (1.5g with separate graphics memory) shows 1571760, a desktop machine here (1gig with separate graphics card and memory) shows 1047276 ...
when you look at "system cache", thats an amount which the OS reserves. this is not directly available to WOW ...
> so it's all consistent. As you can see, WoW and the various > background processes never exceeded 761 MB in six hours of play, many > zones and capital cities full of textures, lots of AH activity, etc. > In other gaming sessions I've never seen the peak exceed 800 MB, so > these results are typical.
starting wow on the desktop just now:
password screen: 93+89 mb
after login in orgrimar AH (Dun Morogh) with a lvl 38 Shaman, no addons installed, at 15:50 in the afternoon, so theres nobody there: 359+360mb, and the count is rising ... a minute later its already 366+365mb ...
on my desktop at home, I usually have addons installed which use about 40mb more, so i'm already at the 760MB you mention.
I'll have to test this at home after I played some time, but i guess the amount needed will sky rocket in the evening, or when the allies are trying to raid XR ...
I'll try to post some values here
insofar, I am forced to agree with Rene: Buy more RAM, buy a faster Harddisk
Urs
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