NS2 unplayable with 3GB RAM?

The_Welsh_Wizard

Hey,

I had to take one of my 4 1GB RAM sticks out because it was damaged (or maybe the mainboard slot is, I don't know). So I am left with WIndows 7 64bit and only 3GB RAM now.
I get "playable" fps in the game (without exo/flame/bile/...) but every (let's say) 5 seconds I get a frame drop to 0 (!) fps for another 5 seconds. Sometimes more. Especially in rooms I never visited before in that round. Sometimes one of that fps drop occured 0,0001 second after another has already occured. It is pretty much unplayable.
I tried to close all unnecessary applications to give NS2 as much RAM as possible but it does not help. Setting priority of ns2.exe to high does not help. Disable Aero does not help.
Any chance I can fix this?

Turbine

To be honest around 2008 I occasionally ran out of 4gb ram. So 3 in this day and age isn't a lot at all.

If your lack of ram is to blame, perhaps you could use 32-bit Windows and tweak it (turn of necessaries) to free up some memory? 32-bit uses less, remember most people use 64-bit to get around the capacity limits.

Or perhaps it's your hdd, I've heard people without SSD's are getting constant pauses.

AurOn2

Indeed we are
Like for example
10 minute load times.

ezekel

Pretty sure you can pick up about 8gb of ram for less than $50, maybe it's time to do a little upgrade

OuchOfDeath

Drop your texture quality setting if it's above low. Textures by far take the most memory.

dePARA

Low texture quality and texture streaming activated may help. If not, you have to invest the 50$.

The_Welsh_Wizard

Turbine wrote: »

To be honest around 2008 I occasionally ran out of 4gb ram. So 3 in this day and age isn't a lot at all.

If your lack of ram is to blame, perhaps you could use 32-bit Windows and tweak it (turn of necessaries) to free up some memory? 32-bit uses less, remember most people use 64-bit to get around the capacity limits.

Ya I chose 64bit only because I bought 4GB RAM.

Or perhaps it's your hdd, I've heard people without SSD's are getting constant pauses.

It worked "fine" with 4GB and does work "fine" when I play on the laptop that neither got an SSD.

ezekel wrote: »

Pretty sure you can pick up about 8gb of ram for less than $50, maybe it's time to do a little upgrade

The costs for 4GB kits (2x2) BEGIN with 50€ (=67$). But I think I would have to buy more expensive RAM because it needs to handle my CPU OC (more than 50%). The problem is here my PC is that old it needs DDR2, not DDR3.

@OuchOfDeath & dePARA:
Texture streaming was always on BUT I lowered the texture quality to low. I don't get fps drops to 0 anymore - but in battle it still drops very heavily. But I think it is playable now (well when you do not consider the mouse problems since Reinforced that make hitting anything impossible with low fps).

Thanks for the help!