Anyone use Memory Managers like MEMTURBO II...Do they work well?

[DarkFudge2000]

Folks I am running Win98 and 128 megs of RAM with a 550 PIII overclocked to 793mhz and I am a power gamer as well as a graphic and Desktop Publishing user. I installed MEMTURBO II and have reservations about whether programs like this are actually good or BAD for optimizing your systems performance?....Also if these types of programs ARE indeed actually very good , What is the BEST program to do the job? and how does MEMTURBO compare to the others??

thanks!!

 

[Noriaki]

I was at my best friends house and his girl friend had it installed on her computer, and it brought her system to stop for about 5 seconds in the middle of games of starcraft. It was excessively annoying. Porbably every 30 minutes or so...at least once per games sometimes twice.

I can't comment on how well it worked but it was extremely annoying. It's not so bad in Starcraft becuase if one player lags out it pauses the game for up to a minute for them to reconnect but in Rune that stupid thing killed me several times....(Rune is like UT/Q3 but with Swords and Axes not guns).

I wouldn't touch one with a 10 foot pole if you are a gamer...

 

[Rankor]

I didn't like MemTurbo b/c it didn't optimize RAM better than other progs out there.

(MT) is also shareware.

I used to use (MT) but now I use RamIdle. It's free and does a better job.

Some may argue the usefulness of a Memory defragger/optimizer/whatever-one-may-call-it. I don't have the prescribed lock-ups that Noriaki was describing.

But lately, I haven't been playing that many games; only Q3A, Q3RA, and Q3TA.

 

[DarkFudge2000]

someone made a comment about freeing up RAM with your Optimizer BEFORE you start a game, then CLOSE OUT the OPTIMIZER before running the game....and only use the OPTIMIZER when you need to free locked away RAM instead of having the Optimizing program like MEMTURBO AUTOMATICALLY checking at timed intervals or when resources drop below a certain point.....I'd love to know if this is correct and if anyone else has some feedback about this...So far It LOOKS cool but I'm wondering if it actually does anything positive for me

thanks!

 

[Nevyn522]

Hey -

I was running a Windows 95 box, then the same system with 98, for two years. I don't know what the problem with my system was, but it had some MAJOR memory leak. I installed a copy of MemTurbo, and was actually able to use my computer. My CDRW drive stopped getting buffer errors, my system behaved more like it should, etc.

MemTurbo 2 is user configurable so that it will try to recover memory every 30 minutes (configurable time period), but this can be turned off -- which should remove that "gaming" concern. Because the system does SLOW down majorly whenever MemTurbo runs. It can also be set to automatically recover memory when it drops below a certain amount -- I can't remember if that's configurable, but you can certainly turn it off.

If you're experiencing slowdowns after you've used your computer for a while, this is certainly a good idea, same if you've just loaded a few programs and shut them down. I haven't used RamIdle, but same idea goes for that. It might not help too much if you only have your computer on to run one program, then turn it off. But overall I'd say it's a good idea.

HTH,
Andrew

 

[peemo]

When I used Win98 more I found this app useful:

RamBooster

Good luck.

 

[Niege]

I've been using Freemem Pro and it's a benefit to my non-gaming applications. Haven't tried Memturbo, though. I second the suggestion about turning off the memory management programs when gaming. Most games have their own memory management system and those work best alone. I was told this several years ago by game programmers. So.... I guess what I'm saying is that these 3rd party memory managers work, but not in gaming situations.

 

[A5]

I use MaxMem. It's very small because it's written in Assembly, which also makes it fast and effective. Did I mention its free? http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm

 

[NucleusWDS]

Simple: 2 words if you're a gamer ...

Don't bother

 

[DarkFudge2000]

If I am a gamer, why shouldn't I bother?...Do Games have their own memory optimizers?..thanks

Also all these replies are making me even more confused....Which one of these apps works best and uses the least amount of resources in doing the job??...I really would love to get the best app for the job...thanks if any of you who may have tried a FEW optimizers can recommend one over the other OR are they all just the same??

thanks!

 

[Kingofcomputer]

Software solution could not be as good as hardware solution.
If you want to buy such software, why not spend the same amount of money for extra 128M ram?

 

[BreakApart]

Win98 & Win98se i would suggest rambooster...

Used it on my clients machines many times-when there was no need to use an NT or 2000 based OS...

Make sure you shut it down when playing games tho...


"The 98 in Win98 is the percentage-(98%) of crashes that could have been avoided had you simply rebooted every few hours."
(i saw this in microsofts support FAQ--i could be mistaken)

 

[MCS]

I have been using MemTurbo under Win98SE (256MB) for a long time, and I say that is very useful and it does work!

A tip for using it is to boot up your PC and see how much memory you have free (it tells you in the task tray) and use that value for the amount of RAM to recover. That way you are not eating into Windows comfort zone, as it were...

Get version 2.0 also - I think earlier versions were a bit "buggy".

 

[billandopus]

I'm using MemTurbo v.2 and it ... works, I suppose. It hasn't been a life changing thing of course.

As for gaming, just turn it off beforehand. It only makes sense. I right-click and shut it off before I play my HOMM3 otherwise I do notice slowdowns when MemTurbo runs. I'm also running 256mb so I probably don't need to run it much anymore.

When gaming, you'd probably want to turn off anything else running in the background eating up cpu cycles and whatnot. When you ready to game - you just run the deep scrub from MemTurbo, shut it off, and you're ready to rock. Simple and commonsensical.