I've noticed over the last week or two, that when I'm playing RPG games
such as Morrowind Elder Scrolls III, or Age of Mythology that the game will
eventually slow down to a crawl. If I pause it for a minute or two, it will be
OK for awhile, before doing it again.

I'm running Windows XP (sp1) with 1024meg Crucial RAM on an Asus A7N8X
(Dlx) MB. My CPU is an AMD XP2400+ and I have the latest nForce and ATI
drivers. I've tried the ATI 3.8, 3.7 and now the Omega 3.8.5a drivers with no
difference. Nothing (as far as I know) is over-clocked.

Any ideas as to why it would do this?

Sam

Have you checked for a memory leak? The first time I installed SP1 it caused
a severe memory leak with Age of Mythology that I could not fix without
reinstalling Windows. The next time I installed SP1 it worked fine! You can
test this out by using various settings with your virtual memory.

Go figure? bye, Rick

"Sam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've noticed over the last week or two, that when I'm playing RPG games
> such as Morrowind Elder Scrolls III, or Age of Mythology that the game
will
> eventually slow down to a crawl. If I pause it for a minute or two, it
will be
> OK for awhile, before doing it again.
>
> I'm running Windows XP (sp1) with 1024meg Crucial RAM on an Asus A7N8X
> (Dlx) MB. My CPU is an AMD XP2400+ and I have the latest nForce and ATI
> drivers. I've tried the ATI 3.8, 3.7 and now the Omega 3.8.5a drivers with
no
> difference. Nothing (as far as I know) is over-clocked.
>
> Any ideas as to why it would do this?
>
> Sam

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:37:06 GMT, Rick wrote:

> Have you checked for a memory leak? The first time I installed SP1 it caused
> a severe memory leak with Age of Mythology that I could not fix without
> reinstalling Windows. The next time I installed SP1 it worked fine! You can
> test this out by using various settings with your virtual memory.
>
> Go figure? bye, Rick

How would you check for a memory leak? I have 1,024 meg RAM and I've never
seen any thing showing more than a 35% memory load. I just checked and see
703 meg available without much else running.

I have sp1 slipped streamed into XP so that when I install it, I start out
fresh with sp1. You would think that there shouldn't be any strange
interactions caused by installing it later. My last XP install was a totally
clean one on a new hard-drive.

Sam

I guess it probably isn't that then. If was a memory leak, eventually you'd
get warnings that there is no memory free, and if you're monitoring your
memory you'd see it and the swap file get used up.

bye, Rick

"Sam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:37:06 GMT, Rick wrote:
>
> > Have you checked for a memory leak? The first time I installed SP1 it
caused
> > a severe memory leak with Age of Mythology that I could not fix without
> > reinstalling Windows. The next time I installed SP1 it worked fine! You
can
> > test this out by using various settings with your virtual memory.
> >
> > Go figure? bye, Rick
>
> How would you check for a memory leak? I have 1,024 meg RAM and I've never
> seen any thing showing more than a 35% memory load. I just checked and see
> 703 meg available without much else running.
>
> I have sp1 slipped streamed into XP so that when I install it, I start out
> fresh with sp1. You would think that there shouldn't be any strange
> interactions caused by installing it later. My last XP install was a
totally
> clean one on a new hard-drive.
>
> Sam