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Windows 8 RAM problems


Craig855S

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As you will know I've recently installed Windows 8. And had terrible problems running my games which have gotten worse and worse. Looking at the resource monitor shows why, at idle my computer is using most of the RAM it has, and running battlefield 3 makes it use it all and after a moment or 2 playing the framerate grinds to a halt then crashes. What the hell is going on here?

 

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Other specs are AMD X3 425 processor (3x2.7GHz) [sometimes I run OCTuner to OC it to 3.0GHz, however to be honest ive not noticed any increase in performance when doing this so I wouldn't say its a factor whether ive applied the OC or not]

4GB of DDR2 800Mhz

Asus HD6860 1GB graphics card

650W PSU

N68S motherboard

500GB Hard drive with nothing on it (rather fresh install of windows 8 pro)

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Unfortunately I cant simply up my RAM as my Mobo only has 2 slots and to get 2 sticks of 4GB will cost 110 quid (I'd much rather swap the Mobo out for one that can take 8GB sticks of DDR3 which will cost about the same, be much more noticeable and also accept a much better processor)

 

I've just given the game another go with Octuner running and it behaved itself better but not as perfect as it used to be on windows 7. I done a bit of searching on memory usage and found out about the superfetch etc using the ram up when its free..I just hope it is leaving it well alone when I have a game running, I think its obvious Im not about to fire another game up whilst im in the middle of one already so it shoudnt be holding ARMA 2 in RAM whilst im trying to play BF3 (wouldn't surprise me if it is though)

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4GB should be fine for Win 8 (most budget laptops and tablets with Win 8 come with 4gb) but not ideal for gaming on Win 8.

 

Look through your processes to see what's chewing it up.

 

Things like increasing paging file, adding a cheap (and fast) usb pen for readyboost or even running Win 8 from an SSD can help.

 

Windows will assign memory to power hungry applications on demand... like gaming.

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4GB should be fine for Win 8 (most budget laptops and tablets with Win 8 come with 4gb) but not ideal for gaming on Win 8.

 

Look through your processes to see what's chewing it up.

 

Things like increasing paging file, adding a cheap (and fast) usb pen for readyboost or even running Win 8 from an SSD can help.

 

Windows will assign memory to power hungry applications on demand... like gaming.

 

I was going to suggest testing it while turning paging file off if it's a rotational hard drive.

 

Also, I take it you have the latest drivers for your graphics card installed, and they are Windows 8 compatible?

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All my drivers are windows 7 drivers (but freshly downloaded), the sites don't list drivers for my hardware for windows 8...yet.

 

how do you turn paging file off? I played BF3 single player for a bit last night and with the OCTuner on and set as high as it will go stably it was JUST playable (without OCT it was unplayable so it may be a processor issue with windows 8)

 

Multuiplayer doesn't work at all, it just kicks me off before its fully loaded. and my 3dmark score is almost 20% now than it was before I put windows 8 on

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All my drivers are windows 7 drivers (but freshly downloaded), the sites don't list drivers for my hardware for windows 8...yet.

 

how do you turn paging file off? I played BF3 single player for a bit last night and with the OCTuner on and set as high as it will go stably it was JUST playable (without OCT it was unplayable so it may be a processor issue with windows 8)

 

Multuiplayer doesn't work at all, it just kicks me off before its fully loaded. and my 3dmark score is almost 20% now than it was before I put windows 8 on

Don't turn your page file off, you don't need to.

 

http://www.ma-config.com/en seems to be pretty spot on for checking drivers and locating newer versions.

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Yeah I can go back to 7 easy if I wanted to, If I don't upgrade my Mobo/CPU/RAM in the very near future ill be going back unless I can get BF3 to play using windows 8. Its managing to play ARMA 2 just fine and that's what I play more to be honest (It really fails at GTA 4 though)
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