Error codes 12 and 13 along with crashing.
tizerist:
How much do I actually have here for TS3? 3.25 plus paging file? I'm a bit confused...
Installed physical memory (RAM) 4.00 gb
Total physical memory 3.25 gb
Available physical memory 2.26
Total virtual memory 12.00 gb
Available virtual memory 11.00 gb
Page file space 8.88 gb
And can I in theory tap in bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVA 4096 and it would find this for TS3 also?
ChilltownNJ:
Quote from: ciane on 2010 February 09, 17:38:15
Sorry, Chilltown. I read the question as a direct response to the post immediately before it. The linked forum had stressed that one shouldn't copy and paste data over the existing lines, just to add the modifications to the end. So I was thinking of backing up before making a change.
Np, Ciane, we were both right, but, maybe I should have just left the question to the person it was addressed to, to spare confusion. And yes when editing the boot.ini file one errant letter can cause a system not to boot correctly. So it should definitely be saved prior to editing. Although, you can add a failsafe to the boot.ini file just by copying the line and changing the name to "Windows "Whatever" 3GB" and then adding the switches to the newly copied line.
Well, tizerist, you are opening up "a whole nother" can of worms there! Oh boy, where to start...
I'm guessing that you are using Vista, possibly x64 flavor, because you have an over 4GB swap file, but then, I could be wrong if you allocated 3 or more hard drives for swap file space, which would be insane, to say the least.
Then again, since you have installed 4GB of ram, but the system is only allocating 3.25 means that you don't have an x64 system... WTF is going on! <screams>
Ok, now that I have calmed down, somewhat, What is your OS? What bit is it, x64 or x86(32)? How much ram did you install in it? And something is seriously funky with the way you set your pagefiles up.
Well, we actually don't need to go that deep unless you want to explain why your pagefile is the way that it is. Total physical memory + Pagefile Space = Total virtual memory available to the system. Since your available physical memory is 2.26, that means that your system alone uses about 1GB to run normal processes, that's assuming you got that info after a reboot with no non boot programs running.
tizerist:
Yes Vista 32. 4 x 1gb RAM.
And the 1 gb being used, thats vista plus firefox plus a couple of Windows Explorer windows open, so thats fine.
Closing everything means 778mb is being used - no probs.
And the deep page file - yes its monstrously deep. I read that it should be 4x higher than your RAM.
Nevertheless, my computer now handles the game easily. The most Task Manager showed was 2.8 gb being used. Does that mean it was using exclusively 2.0 gb for the game?
Oh, and bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVA 4096
Worth doing?
ChilltownNJ:
The more Ram you have, the less you need a swapfile, plain and simple. Larger swap sizes were necessary when Ram amounts were low. Unless you need large swap sizes for apps like Photoshop, you are just wasting space. And even then, if your computer is capping out on your swap file, then that means you have way to little ram. System Ram can access data in 0.000,000,01 of a second theoretically, while a Swapfile (fake ram) residing on your hard drive is bound by the limits of mechanical plater rotation and head motion, can only access data in 0.013 seconds, theoretically of course. Don't believe the swap file hype.
BTW, are you using 1 large contiguous 8.88 GB swapfile or is it between multiple hard drives?
I'm researching the /set IncreaseUserVA 4096 in detail so I will get back to you on that in a bit.
Ok, I would think that setting the switch to 4096 would not improve your situation, and possibly make things worse, because you only have 4GB of memory, your system can only see 3.25 (limitation set by x86 system), and your system, barely running, is using 1GB of system memory already. If the Sims was to actually utilize 3GB of system memory, what would be left for the actual system to run, 0.25gb?
tizerist:
Quote from: ChilltownNJ on 2010 February 09, 22:09:41
BTW, are you using 1 large contiguous 8.88 GB swapfile or is it between multiple hard drives?
I have three hard drives. Don't know much more than that. :P
Thanks.
Quote from: ChilltownNJ on 2010 February 09, 22:09:41
If the Sims was to actually utilize 3GB of system memory, what would be left for the actual system to run, 0.25gb?
Well, I was hoping thats where the paging file would come in.
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