I have an ATI 9700 PRO 128mb of RAM. I was having a lot of problems with the acclient locking up prior to 2 or maybe 3 patches ago but for the last few months everything has run fine and I have never crashed once. I am running 1GB of dual channel and a intel 3ghz processor. I do occasionally experience lag but never major lag. I am using the overdrive utility with ATI to overclock the video card and I also have an ASRock MB which overclocks through the processor through the bios.


I do also use decal with about 6 or more plugins at any given time. I do not use Tank or run any bots.


If it matters any I use Norton's Utilities to defrag my hard drive and Win Doctor to get rid of any junk in my registry like Active X. Also while running AC I am have Norton'S AV, AVG, Spybot, and Microsoft Beta running in the background as well as a few browser windows.


I have not checked to see what I am utilizing for memory but it really doesn't concern me as long as the game runs. I will probably upgrade to 2GB of memory this week and I will do some tests and let everyone know.


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What I am wondering is if a program like Memory Washer (I think this use to be Rambooster) would help by freeing up some RAM. I realize this is probably just a bandaid but if it helps peoples performance than why not try it.


~Duri

those programs often free up memory by forcing paging, which can be a LOT slower..


generally, when running those memory freeing programs, you can end up making it worse, and slowing things down more than if you didn't run it.


The main key is to only have it "free" the memory once in a VERY long while when thigns get back, otherwise, you'll end up with memory being constantly paged and moved, and then it has to be mvoed back into memory from the pagefile once it needs to be used.. it can cause a huge performance hit.

Nope, 1 Gig, 1 Gig, and 256MB .... all three machines are various ATI cards, but no 2 Gig systems.

u should not need that much ram for a game this old

 

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why not?


the game itself is old.. in its original form.


DM had a lot of upgrade to the client itself, and ToD has MASSIVE changes to the client that it might as well not even be the same thing.


You can't really classify ToD as "old" anymore. While it is still AC and AC is old, a lot of the code in ToD (especially the rendering) is new...


The reason some of the leaks and bugs carried over is that a lot of ToD is still AC and ACM code, but much of it isn't.

Arch, if the memory configuration would be compatible, you could try seeing if a system with 2GB of memory still has problems.

 

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OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

would you all step back and read the crap you are posting? please?

I came here looking for help with memory problems on my system when running AC and after reading a handful of posts this thread has evolved into another "turbine sux", "turbine rocks" bitching thread. If you want to post your whining then create a thread for that purpose instead of hijacking a thread which was started to share information and possible solutions to the memory issues!


e/rant off

have a nice day

 

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