Ram issues?

Question

i wanted to know if having a low amount of RAM would decrease the graphics driver performance... i have a 82845G intel graphics controller and 256MB RAM... its just that when im playing games it pauses constantly and also shows a black screen for a good whole minute between scenes... im not sure if it has a driver bug but i have updated the drivers from the manufactuers website and also uninstalled it and reinstalled it.... should i buy more RAM or buy a New graphic driver or both? if i do need to can you tell me a good graphics driver to buy for a windows xp home edition. thanks

Answer 1

You have onboard graphics chip....not really a good starting point for gaming in itself. It doesn't have it's own ram and needs to leach from the main system ram so 256MB is not really very much.

Upping the ram and dedicating a good size chuck of it to video would actually go a long way....picking up a midrange agp graphics card would really help things out though.

Answer 2

Well your Intel graphics is integrated thus far lower performance than ATI or NVIDIA discrete graphic cards. And yes 256mb of ram is pretty low for some games, but that depends on games, 512mb of ram is a standard for average games. If you want to increase your performance you should get a discrete graphics card (either Ati radeon, or Nvidia Geforce), and you can also upgrade your ram, to maybe 512mb.

OR!! you can just get a new pc and make a better invesment!

Good Luck

Answer 3

Games/graphics consume memory. With that said, check this out:

- Many users are not aware of how much RAM is used by wallpaper and/or a screensaver full of graphics. They run in the background and consume memory. (I have only 512mb RAM, run multiple programs simultaneously, and have set my wallpaper and screensaver to blank.)

I don’t do games, but I do know they are primarily graphics which need and use a lot of memory.

- How many programs do you load at startup? Maybe you should check it out and ensure you are running just what you need.
To do this: cl Start, cl Settings, cl Taskbar and Start Menu.
- cl Start Menu, cl Customize, cl Remove.
- cl the icon for the program you wish to remove
- then cl Remove.
- This will prevent the program from loading at startup, but will not remove the program from the hard disk.

- When you are working in a large file, save frequently to restore full memory access. (Your work remains in memory until you “save” it to disk.)

1. Did you run an error check? Open My Computer,
Right-cl on C:, Select Properties, Tools – Run an Error Check ( checkmark “check all and fix); then run a Defrag

2. Are you using Yahoo Toolbar? Run a full Norton Antispy.

3. From IE, click Tools, Internet Options
delete cookies
delete files (offline files)
clear history (set days to save to 0 if you want)
click o.k., and Restart

3. click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools – run Disk Cleanup

4. click Start, Run ipconfig renew (type ipconfig space renew)

All these things should be done regularly. The more frequently they are run, the less time they take.
- Note: Games and videos are mostly graphics. Graphics create large files. If this doesn’t help, you should consider getting more memory.

Answer 4

If you have onboard graphics, the ram is probably shared with the video card. You could buy more ram but most onboard video isnt even close to being game compatible. If it was me, I would opt for a hi end video card with lots of video ram. It sounds like you have barely enuff ram to run the game let alone share it with your video chip!

Answer 5

Hi, 256mb is no way enough ram to run XP properly, I install
512mb ddr ram (faster than sd ram) standard for home PC.
For gaming i recomend 1 gig ram plus a graphics card with 64mb minimum on it also. hope this helps. cheers

Answer 6

To me it does sound like you need to get more ram. For windows XP you should have at LEAST 512MB of RAM but the more you have the better.