What's the most gigantic/scary resource hog program you've ever used?

[dug777]

I have seen farcry run a huge pf (700mb) and eat maybe 800mb of RAM as well, so i thought i'd seen it all...then along came Simcity4;

i was playing just now (only 70,000odd people city as well) on one of the huge squares, and was cheerily running a 1.02Gb pf, while i had as little as 10mb of my Gb of RAM free at times :Q

(dual monitors let me see all this action real-time

Sims2 is pretty intense, but it gets thrashed by Simcity4...

I don't use photochop much, but i hear than can be a real resource muncher too, and one of mates says AutoCAD and Vis are pretty hungry apps.

 

[Mo0o]

When I get several torrents running it can eat quite a lot of ram. SWAT4 as well.

 

[Whitecloak]

VtM:BL

 

[edro]

Solid Edge (3D CAD)... uses ~700mb of RAM sometimes.

 

[ThePresence]

Photoshop, HL2, most music programs are pretty bad.

 

[zixxer]

Lotus Notes



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[Aharami]

FarCry runs fine on my machine. Simcity 4 lags like crazy!! Also Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 is pretty damn bad. It got so bad that the game wasnt enjoyable anymore.

System specs are
Shuttle AN35N mobo
AMD Athlon XP 2700+
1 gig PC 3200 RAM
Nvidia 6800 nu

 

[Sphexi]

Games usually pull the most, which I'd expect. As far as normal programs go, Adobe Acrobat tends to stay in memory long after I stopped using it, and Norton tends to pull 100MB+ of memory even when it's not doing anything. I'm pretty picky about what I run in the background, so I've since switched to Kapersky which runs a lot lower.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Aharami
FarCry runs fine on my machine. Simcity 4 lags like crazy!! Also Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 is pretty damn bad. It got so bad that the game wasnt enjoyable anymore.

System specs are
Shuttle AN35N mobo
AMD Athlon XP 2700+
1 gig PC 3200 RAM
Nvidia 6800 nu

yeah farcry runs beaut on mine, but simcity4 is just evil

thats a ASUS A7V8X, 2.1Ghz Axp, 1gb RAM, 9800 pro.

 

[kobymu]

CAD, once opened a 2d 12 layers 1800Kb schematic beast, with lots of funky SPLINE, took over 2gigs of ram, it was evil

 

[effee]

everquest 2..took up abotu 900megs of ram once.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Illustrator is a beast. A damn beast.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: whitecloak
VtM:BL

Anything with a memory leak

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

At work I work with programs which can get quite bad depending on what they have to calculate and how many thousands of data files you use. Worst I've seen was over 3 1/2 GB or so.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Music related sampling plugins with huge sample libraries in addition to recording and playback of several tracks at once under low latency with tons of realtime software monitored effects. *breathes* My system with 2GB memory can choke for more ram and easily CPU, under these conditions.

 

[arcas]

Lotus Notes has to rank up there.

I wrote some wall street analysis programs that will use between 2 and 6 gig of RAM depending on the parameter set. That doesn't really count, though, since they're not commercially-available programs.

 

[Banana]

I have problems with News Shark. Is there a better program?

 

[alien42]

virtual hooker is pretty resource intensive

 

[apoppin]

Windows
:roll:

 

[PingSpike]

Bloatus Bloats. Its a e-mail app that might theoretically run well on machines released 5 years from now.

 

[Dubb]

3d/cad stuff takes the cake. I've run into the 2GB/application ram limit with Rhino, maya, and autocad.

but only in rhino was I doing something I could concieve of the application being able to handle it.

nothing more cryptically anoying than "Windows has run out of memory. XXXXXX will now close. Please restart your computer"

 

[loic2003]

Minesweeper

 

[akubi]

Originally posted by: armatron
Lotus Notes



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rofl... qft

http://lotusnotessucks.4t.com/index.html

 

[imported_Beavis]

Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security,

 

[Liviathan]

Any of the sims game take all the resources they can. Also Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Its a lot of processing to calculate all the stuff they need.