Does it get less and less every time u install a game?, becuase i played alot of games and now it says "Virtual memory to low situation critical", how can i get that memory back?, i uninstalled all the games.
2006-09-29 05:34:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Deleting the games off your hard drive will not help you at all in this situation. The computer is telling you that it used up all the RAM available, so it started using swap files on the hard drive in an attempt to keep running your programs, and then ran out of swap file space. You can adjust the amount of hard disk assigned for use as virtual memory to be larger, but what you really need is more RAM. Deleting programs off the hard drive will only help if your hard drive is nearly full.
2006-09-29 05:54:54 · answer #1 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because they are both measured in Gigabytes doesn't make them the same.
Ram is active, short term, volatile, memory. Nothing stored in RAM is permanent. If you shut down programs and processes you don't actively use you will recover some RAM. Rebooting your computer once in a while, clears out some old process and memory lost to leaks in less than stellar program code. Deleting spyware can help they use RAM to track your computer habit and report back to their owners.
in lay-mans terms virtual memory is a sad attempt to simulate more memory that relies of hard disk to store information that should be in RAM. RAM is fast (where talking the speed of light here) because the signals are electrical impulses, it is somewhat slowed down by the system clock speed but still very fast. Disk on the other hard is a mechanical process and is considerably slower actually much slower than the system clock so performance will be very bad. Not to mention if you need something from virtual memory you have to make room in RAM for it so you have to write to hard disk before you read. So if you are see this a lot buy more RAM, you would be surprised how much better everything will run.
As for deleting the games you can load then back to disk this wasn't your problem.
2006-09-29 13:11:43 · answer #2 · answered by Brian K² 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
deleting some of the games you have will free up space,you could try clicking the refresh bar
2006-09-29 12:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.crucial.com/
2006-09-29 12:46:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋