Hard drive constantly swapping during gaming

[GTOnizuka]

Hi Guys,

During gaming my harddrive is constantly swapping and being accessed, so much so that it bogs down my entire computer. I maybe completely off base, but this didnt occur until after I upgraded my video card. Which leads me to ask, do you guys think this is due to a lack of system RAM? My new upgrade has allowed me to turn up all my settings in games on high and still get great frame rates... that is until my harddrive kicks in.

FYI, this is on a fresh install of WinXP with 1gig of RAM. I have tried to defrag to no avail. This problem is the most persistant when I'm playing World of Warcraft. As far as I can tell the HD seems to be in good health and runs well outside of gaming.

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[law9933]

I am not a gamer or expert, but 2G is often recommended. Maybe you have a lot running in the background. Norton & McAfee are resource hogs.
What's Running a program will show you details. BlackViper witll help you shut of unneeded running XP services.

 

[bmf2442]

What is the size of your paging file? Start>right click my computer>properties>advanced>under performance click settings>advanced tab>under virutal memory it shoud tell you what your current is, and it lets you increase it. The recommended is 1.5xamout of ram installed. Try that and see.