Re: RAM Recovery

Lady Yuna wrote: 
I am running XP on a 2.8 Gig processor with 512mb RAM. Is that not enough?


Not for all the games out there. I had problems with Morrowind at times where the RAM usage tripled before it crashed because of the "thrashing" to disk cache.


"Kerry Brown" wrote:


The garbage collection routines in XP will eventually recover the RAM unless it is an extremely poorly written program. A reboot will force the issue.
From your description of the problem it sounds like the real problem is you
do not have enough RAM to start with. RAM recovery programs are snakeoil and not worth using. They invariably use more resources than they free up and cause many problems with other programs. In earlier versions of Windows memory managers were sometimes useful. In Windows XP they are a waste of time.

Kerry

Lady Yuna wrote:

Ok  Thanks to both Mike and Kerry   Yes a reboot does help some but I
would still like to know of any recovery programs.  To Kerry who
didnt understand what Im trying to do--when you play a game from a
disc it uses the RAM and the computer doesnt always recover all that
Ram when you close the game down making the computer a bit sluggish.
As I said a reboot does help. I guess Im just curioes about a program
to recover it without rebooting.

"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:


Ram recovery programs use more resources than ever they free up..
reboot after playing, as suggested by Kerry..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Lady Yuna" <LadyYuna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hopefully a simple ask. I am after a program to recover RAM
particularly after playing a game from a disc offline. System
Mechanic Pro has one but i
dont want to install the whole program. Does anyone have any
suggestions?





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