I FIXED my stutters/lag/freezes problem

[eigenman]

I tried that mem defragger after starting the game. It started with 92% mem used( 2gig ram installed winxp). After it was done, it said 50% used. Soo it definitely did some good defragging and freed up a lot of physical mem space. Good find.

Didn't notice any stutters but then again I didn't fly over any huge city battles. Will continue to test this and of course it's about time I got a cpl more gigs of ram even if XP doesn't utilize all of it. It's only 20 bux a gig now so no excuses.

[soloje]

I Have 4Go but system display 2 G0 only , I use XP pro Sp2

I have modified boot .ini ti set /PAE and /3GB but without any result

anyone have a good idea?

[jaguar12]

The best advice is not to mess with your swap file. Let windows manage it.

You should try and minimize processes and applications that are consuming ram on your system if you have less than 4 Gig.

On 32 bit windows your OS will only use 3.25 gigs of ram.

The game peaks out at about 960M on my system with a similar VM size. The page file for Win XP is set to 1.5 times the amount of physical ram on the machine but in cases with this much ram it is just not used very often, hence as the original poster explains, no more stutters because I don't have to load from the page file, everything is already in memory.

u sure about this? on my system the game peaks at just over 2gb, and thats with a 1gb page file.

[branko]

Duplicated from Support Forum (just so you have a chance to try _everything_). I should note, I saw none to little effect when I tried either of these:

Memory Management & Memory Enhancement Techniques - Windows VISTA Only

What SuperFetch is:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/superfetch.aspx

How to turn SuperFetch Off:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/11/30/disable-and-turn-off-vista-superfetch/

Also includes a few notes on what it is, and when you should/should-not turn it off.

Using a USB drive as well as RAM (ReadyBoost):

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/readyboost.aspx

More info (what speed your USB Stick needs to be etc) can be found here:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/12428141-2e4c-43ab-8dd2-a6ed6e3b87761033.mspx

THE BAD NEWS:

According to Tom's Hardware analysis, the more RAM you have and the more intensive an application (like a game) the less effect SupoerFetch and Readyboost will have (either turning them on or switching them off).

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-vista-superfetch-and-readyboostanalyzed,1532-6.html

So, if you already have 4GB of RAM, using (or not using) either of these is unlikely to make any difference at all.

Though as the review says, try 'em ... You never know what will happen on your system.