2GB RAM = awesome, however...

[DrunkenPirate]

Ok, new RAM came this morning :yay:
Installed straight away and fired it up after performing the usual checkups. I must admit that I was a little sceptical of those that say that 2GB makes as big of a difference as they claimed but WOW.
I can run everything on high now and cuts through this game like a blowtorch through butter! :O Map loads and client verification is 25 seconds tops and I was able to increase a few settings too and still gain a few FPS compared to 1GB.

Only problem now is that the system takes at least 5 whole minutes to shut down!? I don't restart often so It's not a huge concern but this never happened with the old 1GB setup.

[bisley]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

Dunno if this will help your shutdown issues , but this might have an answer.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.php

[N2K]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

yea two 2gb is great, i can play bf2 for like an hour, take a break, reload it and play again, with out restarting, on my last comp i had to restart the comp to use it after palying

[Blak_Phoenix]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

I have only 1Gb, but i never have 2 restart my computer after playing. Hrmm...

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

I could run my gaming system for days on end with 1GB but this new shutdown issue is bs tbh.

[Tenshi]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

My computer starts up very quickly but takes longer to shut down

i have a gig of dual channel ddr

the computer works fine after playing bf2 after a few minutes clearing the memory i guess.

[DeathGiver]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

Could be your paging file pirate. Mines set at 1536 and 3072 default with 1 gig of ram. The bigger the pagefile the more time it takes to shut down. No idea why but i believe thats the cause of the longer shutdown and reboot. Mine only takes a few seconds to shutdown and no more then 20 secs to reboot. Might be way less then 20 secs. I really never clocked it.

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

I have 1024MB min and 1024MB max on the secondary HDD which is on the second IDE cable, the fastest setup possible.

[DeathGiver]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

Ok try this. Go to start, run, type regedit, HKey_local_machine, system,control set 001, control, look to the right for wait to kill service, left click, itll bring up a value data add a 0. What the number is is the waiting time to shutdown services in the background. The higher the number the more time it takes to shutdown and reboot. Dont worry about messing up your registry ive had it at 0 for a year now and no problems.

[signa]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

I have 1024MB min and 1024MB max on the secondary HDD which is on the second IDE cable, the fastest setup possible.

Hm perhaps with your new ram size, your pagefile requirements have changed. maybe read up on pagefiles. :|:

[DeathGiver]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

Pagefile is too high. IF i increase my pagefile to both 1024 then it takes longer for my hd and computer to shutdown. Right now its at stock when i reloaded windows. And that tweak i posted above will help.

[Talus]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

I did the 'fast shutdown' tweak and things are fine now.

[DeathGiver]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

Not only is reboot faster so is shutdown.

[Espion]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

Get TuneXP and run the boot defrag, and I think there'a another tweak for faster shutdowns.

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: 2GB RAM = awesome, however...

Ok, it seems to have fixed itself...