Party lagging my comp, buy more ram?

Matt24 · #1 03-04-2006, 06:23 PM

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?

bigalt · #2 03-04-2006, 06:27 PM

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?

Matt24 · #3 03-04-2006, 06:29 PM

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.

bigalt · #4 03-04-2006, 06:35 PM

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]

Matt24 · #5 03-04-2006, 06:39 PM

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

wonderwes · #6 03-04-2006, 08:25 PM

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.

ColdCaller · #7 03-05-2006, 07:55 PM

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

Nepa · #8 03-05-2006, 10:12 PM

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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?

junglewarfare · #9 03-06-2006, 02:29 AM

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.

bambi · #10 03-06-2006, 03:02 AM

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