How do i increase my computers physical memory?

Question

I got Company of Heroes for Christmas and it won't play on my computer. The message I'm getting says "Not enough physical memory to run the game. Your system must have at least 512MB of RAM"

Answer 1

Read your Motherboard Users Guide to find out what type of RAM is in your system then buy more of the same type of RAM.

From the message you wrote, your system has only 256MB RAM.

Ideally, a system running Windows XP, or Windows Media should have at lest 1GB of RAM!
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In your case, if you decide to buy more memory (RAM)
buy either 2 sticks of 512MB RAM or one stick 1GB RAM.

Check your users guide first to insure what your motherboard accepts.

DO NOT MIX DIFFERENT TYPES OF RAM,

Answer 2

The documentation you received with your computer should tell you what kind of memory you have. In all likelihood, the mfr installed a single stick of memory, meaning that if your system is relatively new you should buy another 256 Mb stick of DDR or DDR2 RAM. As a hint, I would invest the money and beef up your memory to 1 gb (or 1.5 if you want to utilize the current memory as well.) It will cost about $30, give or take $10 for 256mb, $100 for 1 gb, and $130 for an additional 1.25gb. When you install it, be sure to pay attention to the slots you are sticking it in so that you will get the benefit of the dual channel feature, usually the slots go channel 1, channel 2, channel 1, channel 2. The next error message you might get will be to tell you that you need an ATI or NVidia video card to play the game. That will cost you another $50 or so. If you want to save some $'s, try newegg.com or zipzoomfly.com, both are competitive, especially compared to CompUSA.

Answer 3

Contrary to the answers I have seen so far, I am going to be devil's advocate and say yes you can without buying more RAM Windows Vista has a feature called ReadyBoost. This enables higher speed USB jump drives to emulate RAM. Also, your computer has a pagefile or a virutal RAM emulator on your hard disk. This emulates RAM when your physical RAM gets full by using your Hard Disk. This type of RAM is obviously much slower than physical RAM, but it gets the job done. Therefore you can increase the amount of space your hard disk uses for virtual drive in both XP and Vista.

Answer 4

You can take the computer to a service center or purchase RAM and install it yourself.

You can try www.crucial.com and look up what goes in your system. You'll have to open the computer case. Make sure it is unplugged and make sure you do not touch any of the electrical components on the RAM module. They are static sensitive.

But truthfully take the computer to a service center.

Answer 5

You have to go out and buy some RAM. (They are longish circuit boards with rows of chips on them.) Then you have to install them into the computer.

Don't worry, RAM is relatively cheap, and its one of the most simple internal components to install.

Answer 6

this is fairly basic, it involves buying a compatible memory module. then installing it inside the system. if you do not know someone to help, ask around. just besure the know how to use a grounding strap.

hope this helped