Punkbuster and RAM

thecremeegg · 20 Jan 2008 at 12:03

Perhaps you people in here can help me.
I emailed punkbuster about crashing issues in PB servers which only happens in vista. They replied saying that it could be my RAM as punkbuster accesses it a lot in game and can expose flaky compnents.
It only happens in vista, not XP.

Is this explaination plausible?Is it because of vista using more RAM when gaming, which it cant take along with PB, or is that unlikely?

Cheers

swinnie · 20 Jan 2008 at 13:27

Run memtest on the RAM and let us know if there are any issues.

I don't think this is an explanation as it only happens under Vista.

It MIGHT be that your RAM/CPU is being maxed out causing the system to lock up.

thecremeegg · 20 Jan 2008 at 17:49

Yea I thought it was my gfx card at first, possibly driver conflicts etc, but I tried with a 2900XT and that does the same. I've ordered some new RAM that I hope will sort it out

mattyrigby00 · 20 Jan 2008 at 18:06

what is the exact error? i had some weird error with punkbuster which i fixed by running the "pbsetup" program to update it manually

thecremeegg · 20 Jan 2008 at 19:08

Locks up with looping sound

I've updated PB using the program, manually, installed every driver you can think of and it still happens. I think that it must be hardware related, its getting too much stress in vista with PB

swinnie · 28 Jan 2008 at 20:05

Run memtest on your RAM modules.