Explain this to me...

[Spooner]

I have a pIII 733 system with 640mb of pc133 RAM with Win2k installed

Seems like gaming is a problem for some reason. When my computer is on for an extended period of time, games seem to be choppy, slow-running, and sometimes just don't work at all. If I reboot and run the game, it runs fine.

Is there like a stored virtual memory problem going on here? I know I have unnecessarily too much ram for my system anyhow, but this shouldn't be happening. What's the dilly?

 

[Ryan]

It looks like you need the help of..........the OPERATING SYSTEMS FORUM!

 

[Spooner]

i never get any love in the other forums....

ATOT is an easy way to get a bunch of responses quicker

 

[Ameesh]

Well the third party software that you run will leak memory and other wise tie up system resources that normally wouldnt have been tied up, when you reboot are the leaks are temporarly gone and violioa your system is running better.


A memory Leak is when a programs asks for an allocation of memory and then never deletes it

 

[Czar]

most likely you have some program running that has a memory leak.

 

[Spooner]

should that even be happening?

is there a way to stop it?

 

[bunker]

<< should that even be happening? >>


Happens all the time, it's called poor programming.



<< is there a way to stop it? >>


Figure out what the offending program is and quit using it?

 

[dullard]

#1 solution to almost every problem I see with computers: Reboot.

Win2k is much better than Win95 or Win98 with handling the needed reboots, but they still can happen. You have to see which program is causing it...

 

[Spooner]

and just how do you guys propose i find out which program is the offender?

 

[dullard]

<< and just how do you guys propose i find out which program is the offender? >>


Trial and error is about the only method that I know of. Good luck.

 

[Spooner]

Okay. All I have running now is my Verizon software... and AOL.... and IE.

Now my computer is running kind of slow... like even when I try to change the volume on Winamp.. it's almost choppy.

WTF? why would this suddenly happen? Highly frustrating!

Also... I try to run the "Disk Cleanup" utility and it just sits there scanning for 50 years without hard drive activity.

I think I may be reformatting soon.... doesn't Win2k have an easy way to do this?

 

[bunker]

Look at your task manager. If you look at the list of processes it will show you how much memory each is using. See if something has an unusually large chunk of it.

To get to the task mananger either right click on your application bar (that's not what it's called but I can't think of the correct name right now, you know, that bar where you proggies go when they're minimized), or ctrl-alt-delete and select task manager.