Hi. Hope someone can help. When I play the Sims, the game crashes. I have tried to shut down programs running in the background using task manager but it then I get these dire warnings. So I end up playing with 16 programs running in the background and of course the game crashes. Any suggestions?

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi. Hope someone can help. When I play the Sims, the
game crashes. I have tried to shut down programs running
in the background using task manager but it then I get
these dire warnings. So I end up playing with 16 programs
running in the background and of course the game crashes.
Any suggestions?
>.
>
16 is rather low I have 34 at bootup.Check out this link.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi. Hope someone can help. When I play the Sims, the
game crashes. I have tried to shut down programs running
in the background using task manager but it then I get
these dire warnings. So I end up playing with 16 programs
running in the background and of course the game crashes.
Any suggestions?
>.
>What operating system do you have and how much RAM is
present?L

I have windows xp and 256 mgs of ram. Thank you

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>-----Original Message----
>Hi. Hope someone can help. When I play the Sims, the
game crashes. I have tried to shut down programs running
in the background using task manager but it then I get
these dire warnings. So I end up playing with 16 programs
running in the background and of course the game crashes.
Any suggestions?
>
>What operating system do you have and how much RAM is
present?

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:36:03 -0700, "rosalie"
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>I have windows xp and 256 mgs of ram. Thank you!
>
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi. Hope someone can help. When I play the Sims, the
> game crashes. I have tried to shut down programs running
> in the background using task manager but it then I get
> these dire warnings. So I end up playing with 16 programs
> running in the background and of course the game crashes.
> Any suggestions?
> >.
> >What operating system do you have and how much RAM is
> present?L
>

Rosalie,

Add 256M. Cheap and effective. For WinXP, 512M is the minimum I'd recommend to
anybody.

For real-time analysis of your system, get Process Explorer (free) from
<http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml>. Provides way more
information than Task Manager, including graphical records of memory usage by
application.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.