Win 2000 hogging RAM!! Plz help!

[Xenon14]

A friend of mine just installed Win2K and now he has trouble playing Medal Of Honor, as his 128mb sdram/ PIII 700/ ATI 7500 All In One, appear to be "running on low virtual memory." Understand he never got those errors when he played from Win98se.

I suggested he run msconfig and remove a bunch of startup programs, but he states that Win2K doesn't have msconfig. (Does it have a similar command?) and what else should he do? Thanks.

 

[JonB]

Look in the Win2K Task Manager and see how many things are running. I usually have 40 processes, sometimes more, but many of them aren't needed most of the time. He probably has some default Win2k services running that he can kill. Feeling brave? Use the task manager list and "end" some of the larger programs running. The really important ones will generally refuse to quit, plus when you reboot, they'll all come back.

It is also possible that your Virtual Memory settings could be too low. By default, Windows wants to manage VM, but I usually configure my setups to have a fixed amount, usually double the physical RAM. Set the minimum and maximum values to be the same (in your friend's case, 256mb). On reboot, Win2k will create a permanent swapfile that no longer needs to expand and contract. This will usually fix "low virtual memory" problems.

 

[Saltin]

It could also be that 128mb of SDRAM is insufficient memory to play MOHAA on Win2k.
Consider 128mb the minimum for the OS. If you and your friend are unhappy with that, you should consider another OS. Perhaps one without a GUI.