Party lagging my comp, buy more ram?
 

My computer is running anywhere from 60-100% when I am just 6 tabling Party and running one other site.

I bought my computer last April and it is a 3.00 GHZ Pentium 4, 2.99 GHz, 2.00 GB RAM. I also have 3 video cards in the machine, will I still be able to stuff more RAM in there?

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that's odd that it's using that much CPU. i sincerely doubt more RAM will help.

is it partygaming.exe that's using up all the CPU time?

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I have PT and PV running as well, but Partygaming is huge. 80k. Using anywhere from 40-50% when I go to processes, PT is usually around 20. System Idle Process floats anywhere from 13-50 as well.

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the system idle process is just 100-(sum of all programs running), i think

are you resizing windows? that seems to give a lot of people problems.

I think it's probably pretty safe to say that it's party's problem and not yours. you could possibly alleviate the problem by messing with the page file permissions for party but i have no idea what [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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nope, no resizing windows. The old Party used up way less memory.

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With specs like that your machine should run like a champ. That is very odd. Did a disk defragment make any difference? Its just hard to see that more ram would solve that. Its unreal why it is taking up so much system resources.

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anybody got any ideas?

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Cut down your porn surfing time. My computer is a little better than yours (I only have 2 gcards) and i run Party perfectly. Try doing a scan for malicious spyware and so forth. Back in my CS days, my computer would lag hardcore whenever i even tried to run CS. Did a scan and got rid of everything -BOOM- back to normal speed.

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Gotta be Spyware/Adware, or processes that are severely leaking memory (as Firefox is known to do).

Re: Party lagging my comp, buy more ram?
 

Try doing a scan for malicious spyware and so forth

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My computer is running anywhere from 60-100% when I am just 6 tabling Party and running one other site.

I bought my computer last April and it is a 3.00 GHZ Pentium 4, 2.99 GHz, 2.00 GB RAM. I also have 3 video cards in the machine, will I still be able to stuff more RAM in there?

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Are you running HUD?

Re: Party lagging my comp, buy more ram?
 

does going from 2 to 4 gigs make much of a difference, assuming the computer is going to be 8 tabling + PAHUD + PT + AIM + Itunes/movie? or is 2 enough for all that.

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I have had the same problem, i emailed party and they told me i am full of [censored] and it must be my system, i am still looking for an answer, but today i did try and fiddle with the paging file settings, which seemed to help but it was only a day so i need to play a bit longer to se if it has really made a difference

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does going from 2 to 4 gigs make much of a difference, assuming the computer is going to be 8 tabling + PAHUD + PT + AIM + Itunes/movie? or is 2 enough for all that.

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Windows XP non-64 bit cannot address 4 GB of RAM correctly.

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I have the same problem with party since the "upgrade". The problem seems to get worse the longer I have the client open, so I think its a memory leak, but I havent really looked into it yet.

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does going from 2 to 4 gigs make much of a difference, assuming the computer is going to be 8 tabling + PAHUD + PT + AIM + Itunes/movie? or is 2 enough for all that.

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Windows XP non-64 bit cannot address 4 GB of RAM correctly.

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I am thinking of buying a new comp and 4gb was an option on some of the configurations. that was at alienware.com. a bit of a tangent, but if i am looking to buy a new pc, what are the best sites to configure and buy a prebuilt? I have heard some negative things about dell, but maybe that is just stupid anecdotal stuff. I am looking to spend 2000 or so. I don't really want to build my own, not worth the time and hassle for me.

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Dell is okay, but if customer service isn't important to you, I'd go with any of the third-party builders that use actual parts, and not commissioned ones from Dell.

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Dell is okay, but if customer service isn't important to you, I'd go with any of the third-party builders that use actual parts, and not commissioned ones from Dell.

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I am kind of clueless, which companies use actual parts, where should I start looking? A friend suggested alienware, that is why I started with them. Thanks.

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Monarch Computer

The phrase you're looking for for "actual computer parts" is "industry standard upgradeable."

Monarch is the place.

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Yeah, "industry standard upgradeable," aka, not proprietary hardware like Dell uses on their PSUs and motherboards.

EDIT: But yes, Monarch is good.

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does going from 2 to 4 gigs make much of a difference, assuming the computer is going to be 8 tabling + PAHUD + PT + AIM + Itunes/movie? or is 2 enough for all that.

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Windows XP non-64 bit cannot address 4 GB of RAM correctly.

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does going from 2 to 4 gigs make much of a difference, assuming the computer is going to be 8 tabling + PAHUD + PT + AIM + Itunes/movie? or is 2 enough for all that.

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Windows XP non-64 bit cannot address 4 GB of RAM correctly.

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Yeah, sorry, I should have mentioned something earlier as I said. :|