Task Manager Explanation (Pic)

Camalot · 15 Mar 2006 at 11:58

Hi there, been looking at the mem usage of games on my pc latley, which led me to buy more ram. Anyway....

Could someone explain a few things to me. I'm getting bad stuttering and while it stutters, my hard drive is making loading sounds like its doing a defrag. I gather this is my pc using the page file?

The screenshot shows 478mb on page file, why is that? It hasn't run out of physical memory to use page file has it?

Also it says im currently using 490mb ram, i have a max of 654mb ram, but in avaliable it only says 42mb ? Shouldnt it be over 150?

I'm probably reading it totally wrong :eek:

Camalot · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:34

Ahhh, i thought pagefile was there for when your run out of physical ram :eek:

I just put wow back on and took pic of processes

Surely that doesnt add up to 450mb ram being uses?

Camalot · 15 Mar 2006 at 14:03

Thanks.

The stuttering im talking about is in wow...thats what im trying to clear up

Guess its just down to my old 1ghz cpu then?

There is only one user on my computer, if i tick that box nothing changes

Still dont know where the extra memory is going :eek:

Camalot · 15 Mar 2006 at 14:38

but but but, why kill wow.exe ? im playing it atm ! (world of warcraft) its the stutteing in the game i wanted to try fix

Camalot · 15 Mar 2006 at 15:34

Borris said:
Stop alt-tabbing from Windows to WoW.

That's probably what is killing your machine.

I NEVER alt-tab to windows when playing wow properly....only reason i alt tabbed was because they asked for a pic of processes